Book Excerpt

Book Excerpt: "Remarks by Mr. Denis Kearney on Kearneyism in California," by…

Note: This excerpt is from the 2-volume book called The American Commonwealth published by Viscount James Bryce in 1889. This book…

Historical Newspaper

Martin R. Delany - The Colored [...] in the United States Army

Note: See last column, 1st paragraph. Racial epithets used.Chronicling America presents a March 10, 1865 article, author unknown,…

Autobiography

Autobiography: Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Antislavery Labours in…

Documenting the American South features Black abolitionist and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward's autobiography published in 1855.…