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The electronic browser books listed below are available as individual titles on IBM formatted 3.5 inch diskettes or the library collections are available on self starting CD. They are read offline using your Internet browser. Many of our e-books are not available anywhere in regular book form, being out of print. Some are out of print because they were written in an era of different sensitivities and are now "politically incorrect."

Title/Author	Description
Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson by William J. Anderson	Twenty-four years a slave, sold eight times! In jail sixty times!! Whipped three hundred times!!! or The Dark Deeds of American Slavery revealed containing scriptural views of the origin of the Black and of the White man. Also, a simple and easy plan to abolish slavery in the United States. Together with an account of the services of Colored Men in the Revolutionary War -- Day and date, and interesting facts.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass	"This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power; but I think the most thrilling one of them all is the description DOUGLASS gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman, on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay--viewing the receding vessels as they flew with their white wings before the breeze, and apostrophizing them as animated by the living spirit of freedom." -- Wm. Lloyd Garrison
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois	"Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest to you, Gentle Reader; for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there." Browse Sample
The Anti-Slavery Crusade by Jesse Macy	The historical roots and the development of the movement that precipitated the Civil War.
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson	Sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery's shadows fall even there.

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African American Heritage Library