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Alexander Walters' Church

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Chicago Women's Baptist Home Mission Society

Religion So Sweet

Alphabetical List of The Church in the Southern Black Community

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African Methodist Episcopal Church
The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Philadelphia: J. H. Cunningham, 1817. 192 p.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and
Harris, C. R. (Cicero Richardson), 1844-1917
Historical Catechism of the A. M. E. Zion Church. For Use in Families and Sunday Schools.

Charlotte, N. C.: A. M. E. Zion Publication House, 1922. 34 p.
African Union Methodist Protestant Church (U.S.)
The Doctrine & Discipline of the African Union First Colored Methodist Protestant Church of the United States of America or Elsewhere

Wilmington [Del.]: P. H. Eckel, 1871. 156 p.
Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People of Colour in the United States

Philadelphia: Martin & Boden, Printers, 1833. 60 p.
edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
Slave Songs of the United States

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. xliv, 115 p.
Ames, Mary, 1831-1903
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865

Springfield, Mass.: [s. n.], 1906. 125 p.
Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances), d. 1903,
Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina), d. 1924, and
Fenner, Thomas P.
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 255 p.
Arter, Jared Maurice, b. 1850
Echoes from a Pioneer Life

Atlanta, Georgia: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. 126 p.

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Baptist Daughters of Zion Auxiliary
Proceedings of the Forty-Third Annual Session of the Baptist Daughters of Zion Auxiliary Held with the First Baptist Church, Garland, N. C., August 4, 5, 6, 7, 1921.

Goldsboro, N.C.: Nash Brothers, Printers and Binders, 1922. 20 p.
Baysmore, Joseph, b. 1823
"Falling from Grace," "Baptism," and "Predestination;" Sermons by Elder Joseph Baysmore, of Weldon, N. C. to which is Added His Lecture on Humanity.

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton, & Co., Printers and Binders, 1878. 16 p.
Baysmore, Joseph, b. 1823
A Historical Sketch of the First Colored Baptist Church Weldon, N. C., With the Life and Labor of Elder Joseph Baysmore, with Four Collected Sermons, First: The Harmony of the Law and Gospel. Second: Subject of the Pure in Heart. Third: How We Were Made Sinners and How We Were Redeemed from Sin and Made Heirs of God by His Love. Fourth: The Confirmation of Christian Faith.

Weldon, N. C.: Printed at Harrell's Printing House, 1887. 12 p.
Boothe, Charles Octavius, b. 1845
The Cyclopedia of the Colored Baptists of Alabama: Their Leaders and Their Work.

Birmingham: Alabama Publishing Company, 1895. 267 p.
Bourne, George, 1780-1845
A Condensed Anti-slavery Bible Argument, by a Citizen of Virginia

New York: Printed by S. W. Benedict, 1845. 91 p.
edited by J. W. E. Bowen
Africa and the American Negro: Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa: Held under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895

Atlanta: Gammon Theological Seminary, 1896. 242 p.
Bragg, George F. (George Freeman), 1863-1940
History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church

Baltimore, Md.: Church Advocate Press, 1922. 319 p.
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Lorenzo Dow. From The Journal of Negro History 1, no. 3 (July 1916), 265-275

Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1916. 265-275 p.
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Women of Achievement: Written for the Fireside Schools Under the Auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society

[Chicago, Ill.]: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, c1919. 92 p.
Brooks, Walter H. (Walter Henderson), b. 1851
The Evolution of the Negro Baptist Church.

From The Journal of Negro History 7, no.1 (January 1922), 11-22. Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1922. 11-22 p.
Brooks, Walter H. (Walter Henderson), b. 1851
The Silver Bluff Church. A History of Negro Baptist Churches in America.

Washington, D. C.: Press of R. L. Pendleton, 1910. 48 p.
Butsch, Joseph
Catholics and the Negro

From The Journal of Negro History 2, no. 4 (October 1917), 393-410. Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1917. 393-410 p.
Butt, Israel L. (Israel La Fayette), b. 1848
History of African Methodism in Virginia, or Four Decades in the Old Dominion

Hampton, Va.: Hampton Institute Press, 1908. 253 p.

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Cannon, Noah Calwell W., 1796?-1850
A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Only One in the United States of America, Styled Bethel Church

Rochester: Strong & Dawson, Printers, 1842. 44 p.
Capers, William, 1790-1855
Catechism for the Use of Methodist Missions. First Part

Charleston, [S.C.?]: Published by John Early, 1853. 40 p.
Carter, Eugene J., b. 1861
Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why?

Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1905. 238 p.
Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964
A Voice from the South

Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892. iii, 304 p.
Cooper, Ezekiel, 1763-1847
compiled by Geo. A. Phoebus
Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper

New York: Phillips and Hunt, 1887. xiv, 337 p.
Coppin, Levi Jenkins, 1848-1923
Unwritten History

Philadelphia, Pa.: A. M. E. Book Concern, c1919. 375 p.
Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846
The First Negro Churches in the District of Columbia

From The Journal of Negro History 7, no. 1 (January 1922), 64-107. Lancaster, Pa.; Washington D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1922. 64-107 p.

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Davenport, W. H. (William Henry), b. 1868
The Anthology of Zion Methodism with an Appendix

Charlotte, N. C.: A. M. E. Zion Publishing House, 1925. 32 p.
Davis, Noah, b. 1803 or 4-?
A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man. Written by Himself, at the Age of Fifty-Four

Baltimore: J. F. Weishampel, Jr., 1859. 90 p.
edited by W. E. B. Du Bois
Economic Co-operation among Negro Americans. Report of a Study made by Atlanta University, under the Patronage of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., together with the Proceedings of the 12th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Tuesday, May the 28th, 1907

Atlanta, Ga.: The Atlanta University Press, 1907. 184 p.
edited by W. E. B. Du Bois and Augustus Granville Dill
Morals and Manners among Negro Americans. Report of a Study Made by Atlanta University under the Patronage of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund; with the Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Monday, May 26th, 1913.

Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1914. 140 p.
edited by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Negro Church. Report of a Social Study Made under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903

Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903. viii, 212 p.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 and
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907.

Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs, 1907. 222 p.
edited by W. E. B. Du Bois
Some Efforts of American Negroes For their Own Social Betterment. Report of an Investigation under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Third Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 25-26, 1898

Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1898. 66 p.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
The Souls of Black Folk; Essays and Sketches

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903. x, 265 p.
Duncan, Sara J.
Progressive Missions in the South and Addresses with Illustrations and Sketches of Missionary Workers and Ministers and Bishops' Wives

Atlanta, Ga.: The Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1906. 299 p.

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Elizabeth, 1765?-1866
Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of the Gospel Born in Slavery

Philadelphia: Tract Assoc. of Friends, 1889. 16 p.
Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina. Convocation of the Colored People
Memorial of the Convocation of the Colored People in the Diocese of North Carolina Presented to the Diocesan Convention of 1916.

[S. l.: s. n.], 1916. 4 p.

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Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances), d. 1903,
Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina), d. 1924, and
Fenner, Thomas P.
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 255 p.
Ferebee, L. R. (London R.), b. 1849
A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life. Written from Memory. To 1882

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers, Publishers and Binders, 1882. 22 p.
Fisher, Miles Mark, 1899-1970
Lott Cary, the Colonizing Missionary

From The Journal of Negro History 7, no. 4 (October 1922), 380-418. Lancaster, Pa.; Washington D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1922. 380-418 p.
Foster, Gustavus L. (Gustavus Lemuel), 1818-1876
Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 186-?. 25 p.

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Gaines, W. J. (Wesley John), 1840-1912
African Methodism in the South; or, Twenty-Five Years of Freedom

Atlanta: Franklin Publishing House, 1890. xxii, 305 p.
Gaines, W. J. (Wesley John), 1840-1912
The Negro and the White Man

Philadelphia: A. M. E. Publishing House, 1897. 218 p.
edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
Slave Songs of the United States

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. xliv, 115 p.
Green, A. R. (Augustus R.)
The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church. With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847. Also, a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou, of the A. M. E. C. and His Ministerial Labors. To Which Is Annexed the Funeral Discourse Delivered at the Ohio Conference, in Zanesville, on the Decease of the Rev. D. F. Davis, by the Author

Pittsburgh, PA: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850. 130 p.
Green, Elisha Winfield
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.

Maysville, KY: The Republican Printing Office, 1888. i-iii, 60 p.
Grimké, Archibald Henry, 1849-1930
Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822

Washington, D. C.: The American Negro Academy, 1901. 23 p.
Gurley, Ralph Randolph
Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary in "Life of Jehudi Ashmun, Late Colonial Agent in Liberia. With An Appendix, Containing Extracts from his Journal and Other Writings; With a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary"

Washington: James C. Dunn, 1835. 15 p.

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Haley, James T.
Afro-American Encyclopaedia; Or, the Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, it Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More Than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.

Nashville, Tenn.: Haley & Florida, 1895. xiv, 639 p.
Hamilton, F. M. (Fayette Montgomery), 1858-1912
A Plain Account of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Being an Outline of Her History and Polity; Also, Her Prospective Work.

Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1887. 136 p.
Hamilton, James, 1786-1857
Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina

Boston: Printed and Published by Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822. 50 p.
Handy, James A., 1826-1911
Scraps of African Methodist Episcopal History

Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern, 1902. xiv, 421 p.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and
Harris, C. R. (Cicero Richardson), 1844-1917
Historical Catechism of the A. M. E. Zion Church. For Use in Families and Sunday Schools.

Charlotte, N. C.: A. M. E. Zion Publication House, 1922. 34 p.
Hartzell, Joseph C. (Joseph Crane), 1842-1929
Methodism and the Negro in the United States. From The Journal of Negro History 8, no. 3 (July 1923), 301-315.

Lancaster, Pa.; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1923. 301-315 p.
Hatcher, William E. (William Eldridge), 1834-1912
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, c1908. 183 p.
Haygood, Atticus G. (Atticus Greene), 1839-1896
Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future

New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1881. 252 p.
Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937
From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church. An Autobiography

Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928. 104 p.
Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life

Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858. xii, 212 p.
Hicks, William, 1869-1954
History of Louisiana Negro Baptists from 1804 to 1914

Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, [1915]. 251 p.
Holsey, Lucius Henry, 1842-1920
Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.

Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898. 288 p.
Hood, J. W. (James Walker), 1831-1918
One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; or, The Centennial of African Methodism.

New York: A.M.E. Zion Book Concern, 1895. xxii, 625 p.
Hood, J. W. (James Walker), 1831-1918
Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and Appendix

Charlotte, N. C.: A. M. E. Zion Publishing House, 1914. 92, 35 p.
Houston, G. David
John Woolman's Efforts in Behalf of Freedom. From the Journal of Negro History 2, no. 2 (April 1917), 126-138

Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1917. 126-138 p.

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Jamison, M. F. (Monroe Franklin), 1848-1918
Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary; a Narration of His Whole Career from the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America

Nashville, TN: Published for the Author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912. 206 p.
Jea, John, b. 1773
The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher. Compiled and Written by Himself

Portsea, England: Author, [1811]. 96 p.
Jeter, Henry N. (Henry Norval), 1851-1938
Pastor Henry N. Jeter's Twenty-five Years Experience with the Shiloh Baptist Church and Her History. Corner School and Mary Streets, Newport, R. I.

Providence, R. I.: Remington, 1901. 98 p.
Johnson, Edward A. (Edward Austin), 1860-1944
A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, with a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printers, 1890. 194 p.
Johnson, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), b. 1836?
Africa for Christ. Twenty-Eight Years a Slave

London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892. 112 p.
Johnson, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), b. 1836?
Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents

Bournemouth, Eng.: W. Mate & Sons, 1909. 266 p.
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1804-1863
The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States

Savannah: Published by Thomas Purse, 1842. 277 p.

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Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association
Minutes of the Fifty-Fifth Annual Session of the Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association, Held with The Hill's Chapel Baptist Church Faison, Duplin Co., N. C. Rev. A. B. McPhail, Acting Pastor. October 15, 16, 17, and 18th 1925.

Wilmington, N. C.: R. S. Jervay's Print, 1926. 33 p.
Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association
Minutes of the Forty-Ninth Annual Session of the Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Association, Held with Pilgrim's Rest Baptist Church, Kerr, Sampson County, N. C., October 16, 17, and 18, 1919.

Goldsboro, N. C.: Nash Brothers, 1920. 17 p.
Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Sunday School Convention
Minutes of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Session of the Kenansville Eastern Missionary Baptist Sunday School Convention, Held with Poplar Grove Missionary Baptist Sunday School, July 18th to 20th, 1919.

Goldsboro, N. C.: Nash Brothers, Printers and Binders, 1920. 16 p.

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Lane, Isaac, 1834-1937
Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D. with a Short History of the C.M.E. Church in America and of Methodism

Nashville, Tenn.: Printed for the author, Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1916. 192 p.
Latta, M. L. (Morgan London), b. 1853
illustrated by The Tucker Engraving Company
The History of My Life and Work. Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D.

Raleigh, Montreal [etc.]: M. L. Latta, [1903]. 371 p.
Lee, William Mack, b. 1835
History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee: Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee Through the Civil War: Cook from 1861 to 1865

[Norfolk, Va.: The Smith Printing Company], c1918. 10 p.
Liberian Exodus Association (Charleston, S. C.)
The Liberian Exodus. First Voyage of the Azor. Liberia a Delightful Country. Climate, Soil and Productions. Character of the People in Liberia; and How They Live. Full Information of the Exodus Movement.

Charleston, S. C.: W. J. Oliver's Print, 1878. 8 p.
Loguen, J. W. (Jermain Wesley), 1814-1872
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life

Syracuse, N. Y.: J. G. K. Truair & Co., 1859. 445 p.
Long, John Dixon, 1817-1894
Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery

Philadelphia: The Author, 1857. 418, 8 p.
Love, Emanuel King, 1850-1900
History of the First African Baptist Church, from its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, etc.

Savannah, Ga.: The Morning News Print, 1888. 360 p.
Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances), d. 1903,
Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina), d. 1924, and
Fenner, Thomas P.
Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 255 p.

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Marrs, Elijah P., b. 1840
Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author

Louisville, Ky.: Bradley & Gilbert, 1885. 147 p.
Moore, Joanna P., 1832-1916
"In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches

Chicago: Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, c1902. 275 p.
Moore, John Jamison, 1818-1893
History of the A. M. E. Zion Church in America. Founded in 1796, in the City of New York

York, Pa.: Teachers' Journal Office, 1884. 392 p.
Morris, E. C., 1855-
Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars

Nashville, Tenn.: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1901. 322 p.

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New Bern Eastern Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Session of the New Bern Eastern M. B. Association of North Carolina Held with Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, Stonewall, N. C. October 18th to 21st, 1923

New Bern, N.C.: Richardson Printing Company, [1924]. 19 p.
New Bern Eastern Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Session of the New Bern Eastern M. B. Association of North Carolina Held with St. Luke M. B. Church, Morehead City, N. C. October 16th to 19th, 1924

New Bern, N.C.: Richardson Printing Company, [1925]. 23 p.
New Bern Eastern Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina
Proceedings of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Session of the Newbern Eastern Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina Held with the Saint Luke Baptist Church Morehead City, N. C. Oct. 16-19, 1919

[New Bern, N.C.?: The Association?, 1919?]. 32 p.
New Bern Eastern Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina
Proceedings of the Fifty-Third Annual Session of the Newbern Eastern Missionary Baptist Association of North Carolina Held with the Bethel Baptist Church Edwards, N. C. Nov. 28-30 and Dec. 1, 1918

[New Bern, N.C.?: The Association?, 1918?]. 33 p.
Nicholson, Alfred W. (Alfred William), b. 1861
Brief Sketch of the Life and Labors of Rev. Alexander Bettis. Also an Account of the Founding and Development of the Bettis Academy

Trenton, S. C.: The Author, 1913. 92 p.
No Author
Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY

Lexington, KY: A. W. Elder, 1854. 12 p.

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Offley, G. W. (Greensbury Washington), b. 1808
A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, a Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary; Who Lived Twenty-Seven Years at the South and Twenty-Three at the North; Who Never Went to School a Day in His Life, and Only Commenced to Learn His Letters When Nineteen Years and Eight Months Old; the Emancipation of His Mother and Her Three Children; How He Learned to Read While Living in a Slave State, and Supported Himself from the Time He Was Nine Years Old Until He Was Twenty-One

Hartford, Conn.: [s. n.], 1859. 24 p.

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Smith, David, b. 1784 and
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
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."

Xenia, O[hio]: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881. 135 p.
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing House of the A. M. E. Sunday School Union, 1891. xvi, 502 p.
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
Recollections of Seventy Years

Nashville: A. M. E. Sunday School Union, 1888. 335 p.
Phillips, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1858-1951
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status

Jackson, Tenn.: Publishing House C. M. E. Church, 1925. 623 p.
Cooper, Ezekiel, 1763-1847
compiled by Geo. A. Phoebus
Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper

New York: Phillips and Hunt, 1887. xiv, 337 p.
Pierre, C. E.
The Work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts among the Negroes in the Colonies

From The Journal of Negro History 1, no. 4 (October 1916), 349-360. Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1916. 349-360 p.
Pius, N. H.
An Outline of Baptist History: A Splendid Reference for Busy Workers: A Record of the Struggles and Triumphs of Baptist Pioneers and Builders

[S.l.: s.n., 1941?]. 154 p.
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
A Catechism to Be Taught Orally To Those Who Cannot Read; Designed Especially for the Instruction of the Slaves

Raleigh: Office of "The Church Intelligencer", 1862. 48 p.

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Randolph, Edwin Archer, b. 1854
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

Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884. xii, 167 p.
Randolph, Peter, 1825?-1897
From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit. The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph: the Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life

Boston: J. H. Earle, 1893. 220 p.
Randolph, Peter, 1825?-1897
Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution"

Boston: The Author, 1855. 37 p.
Richings, G. F.
Evidences of Progress among Colored People

Philadelphia: G. S. Ferguson, 1902. 595 p.
Ridgel, Alfred Lee
Africa and African Methodism

Atlanta, Ga.: Franklin Printing and Publishing Co., 1896. 116 p.
Robinson, William H., b. 1848
From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery

Eau Clair, Wis.: James H. Tifft, 1913. 200 p.
Rush, Christopher, 1777-1873
A Short Account of the Rise and Progress of the African M. E. Church in America, Written by Christopher Rush, Superintendant of the Connexion, with the Aid of George Collins. Also, a Concise View of Church Order or Government, from Scripture, and from Some of the Best Authors on the Subject of Church Government, Relative to Episcopacy.

New York: J. J. Zuille, 1866. 106 p.
Russell, Daniel J.
History of the African Union Methodist Protestant Church

Philadelphia: Union Star Book and Job Printing and Publishing House, 1920. 66 p.

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Sherwood, Henry Noble, 1882-
The Formation of the American Colonization Society. From the Journal of Negro History 2, no. 3 (July 1917), 209-228

Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1917. 209-228 p.
Simms, James M. (James Meriles)
The First Colored Baptist Church in North America. Constituted at Savannah, Georgia, January 20, A.D. 1788. With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors.

Philadelphia: Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1888. 264 p.
Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915
An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist: Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa as an Independent Missionary

Chicago: Meyer & Brother Publishers, 1893. iii-xvi, 17-506 p.
Smith, C. S. (Charles Spencer), 1852-1923
A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: Being a Volume Supplemental to A History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, by Daniel Alexander Payne, D.D., LL.D., Late One of Its Bishops: Chronicling the Principal Events in the Advance of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1856 to 1922

Philadelphia: Book Concern of the A. M. E. Church, 1922. 570 p.
Smith, David, b. 1784 and
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
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."

Xenia, O[hio]: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881. 135 p.
Smith, William A. (William Andrew), 1802-1870
edited by Thomas O. Summers
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States; With the Duties of Masters to Slaves

Nashville: Stevenson and Evans, 1856. 328 p.
Stanford, P. Thomas (Peter Thomas)
The Tragedy of the Negro in America: a Condensed History of the Enslavement, Sufferings, Emancipation, Present Condition and Progress of the Negro Race in the United States of America

Boston, Mass.: Charles W. Wasto, 1897. [8], xvi, 230 p.
Steward, T. G. (Theophilus Gould), 1843-1924
Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico.

[Philadelphia: Printed by A. M. E. Book Concern, 1921?]. 521 p.
Stowell, Jay S. (Jay Samuel), 1883-1966
Methodist Adventures in Negro Education

New York: The Methodist Book Concern, [c1922]. 190 p.
Stringfellow, Thornton
A Brief Examination of Scripture Testimony on the Institution of Slavery, in an Essay, First Published in the Religious Herald, and Republished by Request: With Remarks on a Letter of Elder Galusha, of New York, to Dr. R. Fuller, of South Carolina

[Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office], 1850. 32 p.
Stringfellow, Thornton
Scriptural and Statistical Views in Favor of Slavery

Richmond, Va.: J. W. Randolph, 1856. 149 p.

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Talbert, Horace, b. 1853
The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio

Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Press, 1906. 286 p.
Tanner, Benj. T. (Benjamin Tucker), 1835-1923
An Apology for African Methodism

Baltimore: s. n., 1867. xxiii, 468 p.
Taylor, James B. (James Barnett), 1804-1871
Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa. With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization, by J.H.B. Latrobe

Baltimore: Armstrong & Berry, 1837. vii, 9-108 p.
Thomas, William Hannibal, b. 1843
The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901. xxvi, [2], 440 p.
Thompson, Charles, b. 1833
Biography of a Slave; Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Together with Startling Occurrences Incidental to Slave Life

Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1875. viii, 17-111 p.
Tilmon, Levin, 1807-1863
A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon: Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York

Jersey City: W.W. & L.A. Pratt, Printers, 1853. 97 p.
Tourgée, Albion Winegar, 1838-1905
A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools

New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1879. 361 p.
Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
African Letters

Nashville: Publishing House A. M. E. Church Sunday School Union, 1893. 78 p.
Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
The Barbarous Decision of the United States Supreme Court Declaring the Civil Rights Act Unconstitutional and Disrobing the Colored Race of All Civil Protection. The Most Cruel and Inhuman Verdict Against a Loyal People in the History of the World. Also the Powerful Speeches of Hon. Frederick Douglass and Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Jurist and Famous Orator.

Atlanta, Ga.: s. n., 1893. 53 p.
Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
Civil Rights. The Outrage of the Supreme Court of the United States upon the Black Man. Reviewed in a Reply to the New York "Voice," the Great Temperance Paper of the United States.

Philadelphia: Publication Department A. M. E. Church, 1889. 15 p.
Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915
The Genius and Theory of Methodist Polity, or the Machinery of Methodism. Practically Illustrated through a Series of Questions and Answers

Philadelphia: Publication Department, A. M. E. Church, [1885]. xii, 318 p.
Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.

Baltimore: T. R. Gray, 1831. 23 p.

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United States. Bureau of the Census.
Religious Bodies, 1906: [Excerpts Relating to African American Religious Bodies]

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1910. ca. 80 p.

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Walters, Alexander, b. 1858
My Life and Work

New York ; Chicago [etc.]: Fleming H. Revell Company, [c1917]. 272 p.
edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
Slave Songs of the United States

New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. xliv, 115 p.
Warren, Ebenezer W., b. 1820
Nellie Norton: or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments.

Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin & Company, 1864. 208 p.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 and
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development; Being the William Levi Bull Lectures for the Year 1907.

Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs, 1907. 222 p.
Wayman, A. W. (Alexander Walker), 1821-1895
Cyclopaedia of African Methodism

Baltimore: Methodist Episcopal Book Depository, 1882. viii, 190 p.
Wayman, A. W. (Alexander Walker), 1821-1895
My Recollections of African M. E. Ministers, or Forty Years' Experience in the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Rooms, 1881. xxii, 250 p.
Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918
John Chavis. Antebellum Negro Preacher and Teacher

From The Southern Workman (February 1914). Hampton, Va.: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1914. 8 p.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Thoughts upon Slavery in "A Collection of Religious Tracts."

Philadelphia: Re-printed in Philadelphia, with notes, and sold by Joseph Crukshank, 1784. 84 p.
Wheeler, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1854-1909
The Varick Family

Mobile, Ala.: s. n., 1906. 58 p.
White, George, b. 1764
A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African; Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend

New York: Printed by John C. Totten, 1810. 60 p.
White, William S. (William Spotswood), 1800-1873
The African Preacher. An Authentic Narrative

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [c1849]. 139 p.
Whitted, J. A., b. 1860
A History of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina

Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1908. 212 p.
Wilkerson, Major James
Wilkerson's History of His Travels & Labors, in the United States, As a Missionary, in Particular, That of the Union Seminary, Located in Franklin Co., Ohio, Since He Purchased His Liberty in New Orleans, La. &c.

Columbus, OH: s. n., 1861. 43 p.
Williams, Alfred Brockenbrough, 1856-1930
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of the Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects

Charleston, S. C.: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1878. 62 p.
Wilson, G. R. (Gold Refined)
The Religion of the American Negro Slave: His Attitude Toward Life and Death. From The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 8, 1923. p. 41-71

Lancaster, Pa; Washington, D. C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1923. 30 p.
Wilson, Joseph R. (Joseph Ruggles), 1835-1903
Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, on Sabbath Morning, Jan. 6, 1861

Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1861. 21 p.
Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-1950
The History of the Negro Church

Washington, D. C.: The Associated Publishers, c1921. 330 p.
Wright, Richard R. (Richard Robert), b. 1878
Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Containing Principally the Biographies of the Men and Women, both Ministers and Laymen, Whose Labors During a Hundred Years, Helped Make the A. M. E. Church What It Is; Also Short Historical Sketches of Annual Conferences, Educational Institutions, General Departments, Missionary Societies of the A. M. E. Church, and General Information about African Methodism and the Christian Church in General; Being a Literary Contribution to the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Denomination by Richard Allen and others, at Philadelphia, Penna., in 1816

Philadelphia: [Book Concern of the A.M.E. Church], 1916. 392 p.

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