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TWENTY-EIGHTH THOUSAND
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE
NARRATIVE
OF
SOLOMON NORTHUP,
A CITIZEN OF NEW YORK,
KIDNAPPED IN WASHINGTON CITY IN 1841,
AND RESCUED IN 1853,
FROM A COTTON PLANTATION NEAR THE RED-RIVER
IN LOUISIANA

NEW YORK:
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,
25 PARK ROW, OPPOSITE ASTOR HOUSE,
AUBURN:
107 GENESEE STREET
1855

FINISHED

THE FREE NEGRO IN VIRGINIA
1619 - 1865
By
John Henderson Russell
A Dissertation
Submitted to the Board of University Studies of
The Johns Hopkins University
in Conformity with the Requirements
for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
1913

FINISHED 2/7/2022

COLORED PATRIOTS
of the
AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
with sketches of several
DISTINGUISHED COLORED PERSONS:
to which is added a brief survey of the
Condition and Prospects of Colored Americans.
By Wm. C. Nell.
with an introduction by
Harriet Beacher Stowe
Published
Boston:
Published by Robert F. Wallcut
1855.

FINISHED

Source:
HISTORY
of
KNOX COUNTY, ILLINOIS
--
By Albert J. Perry
--
ILLUSTRATED
--
VOLUME I
--
Published:
Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1912

THE NEGRO PEOPLE
Pg. 760
Added 2/13/2021

Source:
The Executive Documents of the
House of Representatives for the
Second Session of the Fifty-Second Congress
1892-'93
in Thirty-Four Volumes.
Publ. Washington: Government Printing Office
1893
Serial Set No. 3100-3500
RECORD
of
DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
WHO NOW ARE, AND HAVE BEEN,
MEMBERS
OF THE
NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
FROM
JULY 1, 1893, TO JUNE 30, 1894

UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS
CLICK HERE
Added 2/3/2022

Source:
HISTORY
OF
KNOX COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Together with Sketches of the Cities, Villages and Townships; Record
of its Volunteer in the Late War; Educational, Religious, Civil
and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographical Sketches of the Subscribers;
History of Illinois, Abstracts of the
State Laws, Etc., Etc.,Etc.
-----
ILLUSTRATED
-----
By Chas. C. Chapman & Co.
-----
Chicago:
Blakely, Brown & March, Printers
155 and 157 Dearborn Street
1878

CHAPTER VIII
The Underground Railroad
Pg. 201
Added 2/13/2021

HISTORY OF THE BLACK BRIGADE
of CINCINNATI:
Being a
REPORT OF ITS LABORS
and a
MUSTER ROLL OF ITS MEMBERS:
Together With
VARIOUS ORDERS, SPEECHES, ETC.
RELATING TO IT.
By Peter H. Clark
Cincinnati:
Printed by Joseph B. Boyd, No. 25 West Fourth Street
M.DCCC.LX.IV. (1864)
FINISHED

Firelands Pioneer Quarterly
Vol. V - July 1888
The Underground Railroad of the Firelands
(Huron Co., Illionis)
Updated 2/20/2022

STILL'S UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD RECORDS
Sharon Wick's NOTE: This has a lot of names of slaves and could be of a great help to researchers.
1872 & 1886
FINISHED 2/27/2024

Rise and Fall
of
Black Power
In America
Vol. I - II - III
Publ. Boston & New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1873

Table of Contents added 2/21/2021
740 pages

The
BLACK PHALANX;
A History of the
NEGRO SOLDIERS of the UNITED STATES
in the wars of
1775-1812, 1861-'65
By Joseph T. Wilson,
Late of the 2nd. Reg't. La. Native Guard Vols. 54th Mass. Vols.
Aide-De-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief G. A. R.
Author of
"Emancipation," Voice of A New Race,"
"Twenty-Two Years of Freedom," Etc., Etc.
- 56 Illustrations
Publ. Hartford, Conn.:
American Publishing Company,
1890
528 pgs.
FINISHED 2/26/2022

Added Tables of Contents for the following
on Feb. 23/2021:

QUARTERLY
ANTI-SLAVERY MAGAZINE
Volume II
Edited by Elizur Wright, Jr.
New York
Published By the American Anti-Slavery Society,
No. 143 Nassau Street

VOL. I. - OCTOBER, 1835 - NO. 1

Volume II - 1836 & 1837

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
FROM
SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
By
WILBUR H. SIEBERT
Associate Professor of European History in Ohio State University
With an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart
Professor of History in Harvard University
New York
The McMillan Company
London: MacMillan & Co., Ltd.
1898
Updated 2/20/2022

ANTI-SLAVERY
MONTHLY REPORTER

VOL. III.

Commencing June 1829, and ending December 1830

LONDON
Printed for the London Society for the Abolition of Slavery
throughout the British Dominions.
and to be had at the Anti-Slavery Office, 18, Aldermanbury;
of Messrs, Hatchard, 187, Piccadilly; Messrs. Arch, Cornhill; and of All
Booksellers; and at the Depots of all the Anti-Slavery Associations
Throughout the Kingdom
M'DCCC.XXXI.
(1931)
Added Table of Contents 2/11/2022

NOTED NEGRO WOMEN
THEIR TRIUMPHS AND ACTIVITIES
By Monroe Alphus Majors
"A race, no less than an nation, is prosperous in proportion to the intelligence of its women."
---
The criterion for Negro civilization is the intelligence, purity and high motives of its women.
---
THE HIGHEST MARK OF OUR PROSPERITY, AND THE STRONGEST PROOFS OF NEGRO CAPACITY TO MASTER THE SCIENCES AND FINE ARTS, ARE EVINCED BY THE ADVANCED POSITIONS TO WHICH NEGRO WOMEN HAVE ATTAINED.
---
"I will go forth 'mong men, mailed in the armor of a pure intent.
"Grant duties are before me, and great deeds, and whether crowned or crownless when I fall, it matters not, so as Gods work is done."
---
DONOHUE & HENNEBERRY,
PRINTERS, BINDERS AND ENGRAERS,
CHICAGO.
1893
FINISHED 2/4/2022

Roll of Honor
(No. XXV.)

NAMES OF SOLDIERS
WHO
DIED IN DEFENSE OF THE UNION,
INTERRED IN THE
NATIONAL CEMETERIES
AT
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA; MOBILE, ALABAMA; AND FORT GIBSON, INDIAN TERRITORY; AND NAMES NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED OF UNION SOLDIERS INTERRED IN TEH NATIONAL CEMETERIES AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA; HARRANCAS, FLORIDA; AND ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA
_____
"Let summer send her golden sunbeams down
In graceful salutations for the dead,
And autumn's moving host of leaflets brown
Break ranks above the fallen soldier's head."
_____
WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1870

HAMPTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Virginia.
Finished Adding Black Soldiers - 2/22/2023

MOUND CITY NATIONAL CEMETERY, Illinois
Adding Black Soldiers as of 2/24/2023

BURIALS of COLORED SOLDIERS at CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
Added 3/2/2024

HISTORY of the FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT
of
MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
1863-1865
by Luis Fenollosa Emilio
Published:
Boston:
The History Book Company
1894.
Updating 2/21/2022

NEWS EXCERPTS
Updated 3/19/2018

LOUISA CO., VIRGINIA
MARRIAGES
Updated 2/7/2018

The Story of the Negro
The Rise of the Race from Slavery
by
Booker T. Washington
Volume I
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1909
Started 3/9/2020

SLAVERY
IT'S
ORIGIN, INFLUENCE, AND DESTINY|
BY
THEOPHILUS PARSONS
BOSTON:
WILLIAM CARTER AND BROTHER.
WATER STREET, AND 21 BROMFIELD STREET
1863

THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
IN KENTUCKY
PRIOR TO 1850
By
Asa Earl Martin
Assistant Professor of American History
The Pennsylvania State College
Publ. The Standard Printing Company of Louisville
1918
UPDATED 2/14/2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS ONLY
(for now)

SLAVERY IN MISSOURI
1804-1865
by
HARRISON ANTHONY TREXLER
----------
A DISSERTATION
Submitted to the Board of University Studies of The Johns
Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
Publ. Baltimore
1914
Added 2/22/2019

FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
STROKES FOR FREEDOM
A Series of
ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS.
of which
HALF A MILLION.
ARE NOW FIRST ISSUED
by the
FRIENDS OF THE NEGRO
Wilson Armistead
'LAY THE AXE TO THE ROOT OF THE CORRUPT TREE."
---------
LONDON.
W. & E. Cash, 5 Bishopsgate St.
William Tweedie 337 Strand,
and may be had of all 'booksellers.
1858

Nos. 1 thru 82

CLICK HERE
In process 2/19/2022

ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS. No. 4 New Series
------
The
NEW "REIGN OF TERROR"
in the
SLAVEHOLDING STATES,
for
1859-60
-----
NEW YORK:
Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society
1860
144 pages

CLICK HERE
Added Table of Contents & Bits and Pieces of this book
2/28/2022

SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY
of THE AMERICAN NEGRO
in the WORLD WAR.
By Emmett J. Scott, A.M., LL.D.
Special Assistant to Secretary of War
Author of "Tuskegee and Its People," Is Liberia Worth Saving?" and
co-Author of "Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization."
Secretary of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Eighteen years
PRIVATE SECRETARY to the Late Booker T. Washington
-----
A Complete and Authentic Narration, from Official Sources, of the
Participation of
AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF THE NEGRO RACE
in the
WORLD WAR FOR DEMOCRACY
-----
Profusely Illustrated
with Official Photographs
-----
A Full Account of the War Work Organizations of Colored Men and Women
and other Civilian Activities including
The Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A. and the
War Camp Community Service
With Official Summary of Treaty of Peace and
League of Nations Covenant
-----
Prefaced with Highest Tributes to the American Negro
by HON. NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War
GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING, Commander-in-Chief, American Exp. Forces,
and the late
Col. Theodore Roosevelt
1919
Table of Contents Added 8/6/2019

Roll of Honor
(No. XXVI.)

NAMES OF SOLDIERS
WHO
DIED IN DEFENSE OF THE UNION,
INTERRED IN THE
NATIONAL CEMETERIES
(NOTE: The list includes ALL soldiers however I mostly just listed BLACK soldiers during Black History Month)
Transcribed March, 2023
* Mound City, Illinois National Cemetery
* Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton Co., VA

The
WHO'S WHO IN COLORED AMERICA
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America
1941 - TO - 1944,
(Sixth Edition)

WHO'S WHO IN COLORED AMERICA
Thomas Yenser, Editor and Publisher
2317 Newkirk Avenue Brooklyn, New York

Added Index 6/16/2023

NEGRO ELEMENT
in Rockbridge, VA

An
ACCOUNT
of the
SLAVE TRADE
on the
COAST of EAST AFRICA
====================
By Alexander Falconbridge
Late Surgeon in the African Trade
====================
LONDON:
Printed by J. Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street
MDCCLXXXVIII
(1788)
FINISHED 2/7/2024

Quartermaster General's Office, General Order No. 31, May 1, 1866

Roll of Honor
NAMES OF SOLDIERS
WHO
DIED IN DEFENSE OF THE UNION,
INTERRED IN THE
NATIONAL CEMETERIES
at
FORTRESS MONROE and HAMPTON, VA.
WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1866
FINISHED 2/7/2024

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AFRO-AMERICAN CEMETERIES

HISTORY OF AFRO-AMERICAN CEMETERIES