• General Surveys
• Books about Black Abolitionism
• Books by and about Black Abolitionists
• Journal Articles and Secondary Sources
• Online and Electronic Resources

General Surveys

Black Abolitionist Papers. 5 vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985-1992. E449.B624.

Black Abolitionist Papers: 1830-1865. Microfilm. 17 reels. E449 .B625 1993 The collection encompasses approximately 15,000 articles and documents of nearly 300 black abolitionists in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, and Germany. More information about the set can be found here. (PDF)

Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. E449.Q17 1969.

Yee, Shirley J. Black Women Abolitionists: a Study in Activism, 1828-1860. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. E449.Y48 1992.

Books about Black Abolitionism

Abolitionists

African-American Abolitionists: History and Sources

Antislavery Movements

Books by and about Black Abolitionists

Martin R. Delany (1812-1885): Author

Martin R. Delany (1812-1885): Subject

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895): Author

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895): Subject

Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882): Author

Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882): Subject

Sojourner Truth (d. 1883): Author

Sojourner Truth (d. 1883): Subject

David Walker (1785-1830): Author

David Walker (1785-1830): Subject

Journal Articles and Secondary Sources

America History & Life

Black Studies Center

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the
         Present

Humanities Index

JSTOR

Social Science Index

Other Databases and Indexes

Online and Electronic Resources

African-American History: Library of Congress American Memory

African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century

African-American Pamphlet Collection: 1822-1909

African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907

Africans in America: 1791-1831

Black Studies Center

Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the
         Present

Electronic Books by and about African Americans (University of Virginia)

First-Person Narratives of the American South: 1860-1920

Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress)

Making of America: University of Michigan Digital Library

Making of America: Cornell University Digital Library

The Nineteenth Century in Print (Library of Congress)

Project Gutenberg

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University)