ALEXANDER CLARK. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

ALEXANDER CRUMMELL. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

ALEXANDER WALTERS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

All men are created equal Th Jefferson PRINTED BY WEED AND PARSONS. The Crest of the Arms of the United States, was the Thirteen Stars dispelling the Cloud. The reverse side of the Arms or Seal was an unfinished Pyramid. The likeness was copied with great care and accuracy from Stuart's; the motto is from Jefferson's original draft, and the signature, a fac-simile of his autograph, on the Declaration of Independence. [Frontispiece Image] From Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen.

AUGUSTUS TOLTON. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Frontispiece Image] From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West.

B. K. BRUCE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

B. T. TANNER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

B. T. WASHINGTON. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

B. W. ARNETT. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Frontispiece Image] From The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman.

C. B. PURVIS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

CHARLES L. REASON. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

CHARLES STEWART. From Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents.

CHAS. L. PURCE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Cover Image] From The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years. Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones.

[Cover Image] From The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a Slave for Forty-Three Years.

[Cover Image] From Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina.

[Cover Image] From Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.

D. A. GADDIE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

D. A. PAYNE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

D. A. STRAKER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

DAVID ABNER, JR From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

DR. WILLIAM CHAVIS, Dr. Thomas Burton From What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton.

E. M. BRAWLEY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

E. P. M'CABE. JOHN. R. LYNCH. T. M`CANTS STEWART. C. H. PARRISH. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

E. W. BLYDEN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

Elisha W. Green [Frontispiece Image] From Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green, One of the Founders of the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute--Now the State University at Louisville; Eleven Years Moderator of the Mt. Zion Baptist Association; Five Years Moderator of the Consolidated Baptist Educational Association and Over Thirty Years Pastor of the Colored Baptist Churches of Maysville and Paris. Written by Himself.

F. L. CARDOZA. JOHN S. LEARY. JOHN O. CROSBY. E. S. PORTER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Frontispiece Image] Moses Roper [Signed]. In 1840. From Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery. With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter.

G. W. GAYLES. H. N. JETER. DANIEL JONES. J. T. WHITE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

GEORGE W. WILLIAMS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

GRANVILLE T. WOODS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

H. C. SMITH. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

H. M. TURNER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

H. O. WAGONER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Half-Title Page Image] From The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery.

HARRIET TUBMAN. [Frontispiece Image] From Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.

HARRY SMITH. [Frontispiece Image] From Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America.

HARVEY JOHNSON. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

HENRY F. WILLIAMS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNETT. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

I. M. BURGAN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Frontispiece Image] From Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina.

INMAN E. PAGE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

IRA ALDRIDGE AS "OTHELLO." From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. A. ARNEAUX. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. A. BROWN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. B. FIELDS From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. C. FARLEY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. C. MATHEWS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. C. PRICE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. E. JONES. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. F. BOULDEN. W. T. DIXON. C. C. VAUGHN. M. CAMPBELL. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. H. BURRUS. J. D. BALTIMORE. WILEY JONES. J. R. CLIFFORD. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. J. IRVINE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. J. SPELMAN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. M. GREGORY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. P. CAMPBELL. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

J. T. SETTLE From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

James L. Smith [Frontispiece Image] From Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc.

JAMES LEWIS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JAMES M. TROTTER. J. C. CORBIN. G. W. DUPEE. ALLEN ALLENSWORTH. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JAMES POINDEXTER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JOHN H. SMYTHE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

John Jasper. [Frontispiece Image] From The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, with His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun.

JOHN JASPER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JOHN M. LANGSTON. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JOHN MITCHELL, JR. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JOHN W. CROMWELL. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

JOSIAH HENSON [Frontispiece Image] From Uncle Tom's Story of His Life. An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876. With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and an Introductory Note by George Sturge, and S. Morley, Esq., M. P.

JUSTIN HOLLAND. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

L. A. GRIMES. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

M. R. DELANEY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

M. W. GIBBS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

MRS. MATILDA H. FEE. From What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton.

N. H. BOUEY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

N. H. ENSLEY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

P. B. S. PINCHBACK. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

P. H. J. BRAXTON. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

PHILLIS WHEATLEY. From A Narrative of the Negro.

Phillis Wheatley Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston [Frontispiece Image] From Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans.

PRESTON TAYLOR. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

R. Allen From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

R. B. VANDERVALL. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

R. DEBAPTISTE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

R. H. CAIN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

R. L. PERRY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

R. T. GREENER. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

[Frontispiece Image] From Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church; Being a Complete History, Embracing over Sixty Years' Labor in the Advancement of the Redeemer's Kingdom on Earth. Including "The History of the Origin and Development of Wilberforce University.".

REV. JOHN G. FEE. Founder of Berea College, Ky., 1858. From What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton.

ROBERT HARLAN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

ROBERT PELHAM, JR. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

ROBERT SMALLS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

S. A. McELWEE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

S. R. LOWERY. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

Yours most truly Samuel R. Ward [Frontispiece Image] From Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England.

SOJOURNER TRUTH, "THE LIBYAN SIBYL." [Frontispiece Image] From Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life".

SOLOMON IN HIS PLANTATION SUIT. [Frontispiece Image] From Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853.

T. T. ALLAIN. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

T. T. FORTUNE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

THOMAS BETHUNE. (Blind Tom.) From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

W. C. CHASE. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

W. E. MATHEWS. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

W. H. STEWARD. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

W. Q. ATWOOD From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

W. R. PETTIFORD. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

W. S. SCARBOROUGH. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

WILLIAM STILL. From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising.

Yours truly John Anderson [Frontispiece Image] From The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave.