African American Literature: 1866-1919

• Elizabeth Keckley
• Behind the Scenes By Elizabeth Keckley, Formerly a Slave, But More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868)
• Frances Anne Rollin
• The Life and Services of Martin R. Delany (1868)
• William Still
• The Underground Railroad (1871)
• Julia A. J. Foote
• A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch (1879)
• Jacob Stroyer
• My Life in the South (1879)
• H. Cordelia Ray
• Sketch of the Life of Rev. Charles B. Ray (1887)
• George Washington Williams
• A History of Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion (1887)
• The History of the Negro Race in America 1619–1880 (1883)
• Bethany Veney
• Aunt Betty’s Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889)
• Octavia V. Rogers Albert
• The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (1890)
• Josephine D. Heard
• Morning Glories (1890)
• A.E. Johnson
• Clarence and Corrine; or, God's Way (1890)
• The Hazeley Family (1894)
• Martina Meriden; or What Is My Motive? (1901)
• N.F. Mossell – (Gerturde Bustill Mossell)
• The Work of the Afro-American Woman (1890)
• Edward A. Johnson
• A School History of the Negro Race in America (textbook) (1890)
• Lucy A. Delaney
• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (1891)
• Anna J. Cooper
• A Voice from the South (1892)
• Frances Harper
• Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Oak and Ivy (1892)
• Poems of Cabin in Field (1899)
• Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
• The Sport of the Gods (1902)
• Amanda Smith
• An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist (1893)
• Eloise Bibb
• Poems (1895)
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson
• Violets and Other Tales (1895)
• Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (1914)
• Ida B. Wells
• A Red Record (1895)
• Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.
• A Rhyming (1895)
• Links of Friendship (1898)
• Caleb, the Degenerate; A Play in Four Acts: A Study of the Types, Customs, and Needs of the American Negro (1903)
• Negro Tales (1912)
• Mary Weston Fordham
• Magnolia Leaves (1897)
• Timothy Thomas Fortune
• The Kind of Education the Afro-American Most Needs (1898)
• Dreams of Life: Miscellaneous Poems (1905)
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Study of the Negro Problems (1898)
• The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)
• Booker T. Washington
• Future of American Negro (1899)
• Up From Slavery (1901)
• Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Conjure Woman (1899)
• The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
• The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
• Sutton E. Griggs
• Imperium in Imperio (1899)
• Overshadowed (1901)
• Unfettered (1902)
• The Hindered Hand (1905)
• Clara Ann Thompson
• Songs from the Wayside (1900)
• James D. Corrothers
• The Snapping of the Bow (1901) 
• The Black Cat Club (1902)
• William Hannibal Thomas
• The American Negro (1901)
• Pauline Hopkins
• Contending Forces: A Romance Illstruative of Negro Life North and South (1900)
• Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice (1901)
• Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (1902)
• Of One Blood, or, the Hidden Self (1903)
• Susie King Taylor
• Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902)
• William Braithwaite
• Lyrics of Life and Love (1904)
• The House of Falling Leaves (1908)
• Effie Waller Smith
• Songs of the Months (1904)
• Rhymes from the Cumberland (1909)
• Virginia E. Walker Broughton
• Women's Work, as Gleaned from the Women of the Bible (1904)
• Twenty Years' Experience of a Missionary (1907)
• Priscilla Jane Thompson
• Gleanings of Quiet Hours (1907)
• Annie Burton
• Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (1909)
• Maggie Pogue Johnson
• Virginia Dreams: Lyrics for the Idle Hour (1910)
• J. Vance Lewis
• Out of the Ditch. A True Story of an Ex-Slave (1910)
• William Pickens
• The Heir of Slaves (1911)
• Bursting Bonds (1923)
• Matthew Henson
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912)
• William H. Ferris
• The African Abroad; or his Evolution in Western Civilization: Tracing his development under Caucasian Milieus (1913)
• Hubert Harrison
• A Hubert Harrison Reader 
• Fenton Johnson
• A Little Dreaming (1913)
• Visions of the Dusk (1915)
• Songs of the Soil (1916) 
• Tales of Darkest America (1920)
• Oscar Micheaux
• The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (1913)
• The Forged Note (1915)
• The Homesteader (1917)
• Olivia Ward Bush
• Driftwood (1914)
• Benjamin Griffith Brawley
• History of Morehouse College (1917)
• The Negro Literature and Art (1918)

African American Literature: 1700-1865

• Lucy Terry Prince
• Bars Fight (1746)

• Jupiter Hammon
• An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries (1761)
• Winter Piece (1782)
• An  Address to the Negroes of the State of New York (1786)

• Phillis Wheatley
• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)

• John Marrant
• A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black (1785)

• Olaudah Equiano
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, Written by Himself (1789)

• Benjamin Banneker
• Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris (1792)

• Boston King
• Memoirs of the Life of Boston King (1798)

• John Jea
• The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher (1811)

• Solomon Bayley
• A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (1825)

• Samuel Cornish
• Founder of Freedom’s Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. (1827)

• John Brown Russwurm
• Editor of Freedom's Journal

• Robert Roberts
• The House Servant's Directory: A Monitor for Private Families (1827)

• David Walker
• Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (1829)

• Mary Prince
• The History of Mary Prince (1831)

• Maria W. Stewart
• Why Sit Ye Here and Die?, a lecture. (1832)

• Susan Paul
• Memoir of James Jackson (1835)

• Robert Benjamin Lewis
• Light and Truth (1836)

• Jarena Lee
• The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836)
• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee. (1849)

• Charles Ball
• The Life and Adventures of Charles Ball (1837)

• Lewis Woodson
• Wrote under the pen name “Augustine” to the Colored American newspaper from 1837-1841

• Moses Roper
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery, (1838)

• James McCune Smith
• Wrote during the 1840s, The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist

• Ann Plato
• Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Poetry, (1841)

• Moses Grandy
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America (1843)

• Armand Lanusse
• Les Cenelles (1845)

• Frederick Douglass
• A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

• Zilpha Elaw
• Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, An American Female of Color: Together with Some Account of the Great Religious Revivals in America (1846)

• Isaac Jefferson
• Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, As Dictated to Charles Campbell (1847)

• William Wells Brown
• Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847)
• Clotel or the President's Daughter (1853)

• Josiah Henson
• The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849)

• Henry Walton Bibb
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself (1850)

• Sojourner Truth
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave (1850)

• Martin Delany
• The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (1852)
• Blake: or, the Huts of America (Written in 1859-1862, published in 1970)

• Nancy Prince
• A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1853)

• Solomon Northup
• Twelve Years a Slave (1853)

• Hannah Bond/Crafts
• The Bondwoman's Narrative (written in 1850s, published in 2002)

• Josephine Brown
• Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter (1856)

• Austin Steward
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave (1857)

• Frank J. Webb
• The Garies and Their Friends (1857)

• William J. Anderson
• Life and Narrative of 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 (1857)

• Robert Reed
• The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict (1858)

• Harriet Wilson
• Our Nig (1859)

• Ellen and William Craft
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1860)

• Harriet Jacobs
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

• Paul Jennings
• A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison (1865)