- The Atlanta University Publications
A series of 24 volumes (20 available online) which began in 1896 and treated the problems affecting black Americans, edited by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
- Brown, William Wells. The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity.... (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867)
- The Church in the Southern Black Community (Documenting the American South)
"... autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials" include substantial biographical information about the clergy and church members
- Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad ... with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives.... (Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1876)
- Douglass, William. Annals of the First African Church in the United States of America, Now Styled the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, Philadelphia.... (Philadelphia: King & Baird, printers,1862)
- Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware.
- Nell, William Cooper. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. (1855)
- North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
"... includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920"
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University Library)
In addition to "sermons..., local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters..., freedmen's testimonies, broadsides..." the collection includes biographies, letters, historical material at all levels from local to national, church publications, colonization material, etc. Valuable digital collection; fully searchable.
- Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom. (New York: Macmillan, 1898)
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (The Library of Congress)
Use the subject index to identify individuals (slaves, slaveholders, etc.) about whom there is information
- Still, William. The Underground Railroad. (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872) [Another copy]
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