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Mott, A. _Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color; with a Selection of Pieces of Poetry_. (New York, 1826.) Some of these sketches show how ambitious Negroes succeeded in spite of opposition.

Simmons, W.J. _Men of Mark; Eminent, Progressive, and Rising, with an Introductory Sketch of the Author by Reverend Henry M. Turner_.

(Cleveland, Ohio, 1891.) Accounts for the adverse circ.u.mstances under which many antebellum Negroes made progress.

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Coffin, Levi. _Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, reputed President of the Underground Railroad_. Second edition. (Cincinnati, 1880.) Contains many facts concerning Negroes.

Dougla.s.s, Frederick. _Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dougla.s.s, as an American Slave_. Written by himself. (Boston, 1845.) Gives several cases of secret Negro movements for their own good.

--_The Life and Times of Frederick Dougla.s.s from 1817 to 1882_.

(London, 1882.) Written by himself. With an Introduction by the Eight Honorable John Bright, M.P. Edited by John Loeb, F.R.G.S., of the _Christian Age_. Editor of _Uncle Tom's Story of his Life_.

HISTORIES

Bancroft, George. _History of the United States_. Ten volumes.

(Boston, 1857-1864.)

Brackett, Jeffrey R. _The Negro in Maryland_. Johns Hopkins University Studies. (Baltimore, 1889.)

Collins, Lewis. _Historical Sketches of Kentucky_. (Maysville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, 1847.)

Dunn, J.P. _Indiana; A redemption from Slavery_. (In the American Commonwealths, vols. XII, Boston and New York, 1888.)

Evans, W.E. _A History of Scioto County together with a Pioneer Record of Southern Ohio_. (Portsmouth, 1903.)

Farmer, Silas. _The History of Detroit and Michigan or the Metropolis Ill.u.s.trated_. A chronological encyclopedia of the past and the present including a full record of territorial days in Michigan and the annals of Wayne County. Two volumes. (Detroit, 1899.)

Harris, N.D. _The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the Slavery Agitation in that State, 1719-1864,_. (Chicago, 1904.)

Hart, A.B. _The American Nation; A History, etc_. Twenty-seven volumes. (New York, 1904-1908.) The volumes which have a bearing on the subject treated in this monograph are W.A. Dunning's _Reconstruction_, F.J. Turner's _Rise of the New West_, and A.B. Hart's _Slavery and Abolition_.

Hinsdale, B.A. _The Old Northwest; with a view of the thirteen colonies as const.i.tuted by the royal charters_. (New York, 1888.)

Howe, Henry. _Historical Collections of Ohio_. Contains a collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its general and local history with descriptions of its counties, princ.i.p.al towns and villages. (Cincinnati, 1847.)

Jones, Charles Colcook, Jr. _History of Georgia_. (Boston, 1883.)

McMaster, John B. _History of the United States_. Six volumes. (New York, 1900.)

Rhodes, J.F. _History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule in the South_. (New York and London, Macmillan & Company, 1892-1906.)

Steiner, B.C. _History of Slavery in Connecticut_. (Johns Hopkins University Studies, 1893.)