Black Press 

Wendy Highby

Africana Studies Reference Librarian

wendy.highby@unco.edu

970-351-1530

Sarah Naper

Journalism Reference Librarian

sarah.naper@unco.edu

970-351-1533

Michener Library Reference Desk

970-351-2562

David Walker’s seminal pamphlet of 1829, “Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles,” is available online at the University of North Carolina; also available in print at Michener Stacks E446 .W177 1984, E446 .W178, and E446.W2 A6 1965

Cornell University’s Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection contains freely-accessible, online anti-slavery pamphlets.  See also the links to additional online anti-slavery resources.

Try the following Gale Virtual Reference Library links for these online titles:    

    African American Almanac

    African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience 

    Encyclopedia of African American Society 

    Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

    Encyclopedia of Black Studies  Minorities: Race and Ethnicity in America

    Harlem Renaissance 

    Notable African American Writers

    Who's Who Among African Americans

Michener Library owns two special collections of documents on microfiche which contain a few key historic publications authored by African-Americans:

Early American Imprints (first series, Evans collection)

[see the index at Michener Reference Z1215 .S495]

Library of American Civilization

[see the index at fiche location 2^nd floor]

Here are a few examples:

“A narrative of the proceedings of the black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793; and a refutation of some censures, thrown upon them in some late publications,” by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

Library of American Civilization; LAC 40128--Michener Fiche 2^nd floor

“An oration on the abolition of the slave trade: delivered in the African church, in the city of New York, January 1, 1808,” by Peter Williams

Library of American Civilization ; LAC 40132. Michener Fiche 2^nd floor

“An address on the abolition of the slave-trade: delivered before the different African Benevolent Societies on the 1st of January, 1816,” by Russell Parrott

Library of American Civilization ; LAC 40152. Michener Fiche 2^nd floor

“A charge delivered to the brethren of the African Lodge on the 25th of June, 1792; At the hall of Brother William Smith, in Charlestown,” by Prince Hall

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24374, Michener Fiche 2^nd floor; &

“A charge, delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy,” by Prince Hall

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32218, Michener Fiche 2^nd floor

Michener Library owns a special collection of documents on microfiche which contain antislavery pamphlets and other publications.   It is entitled, “Anti-slavery propaganda in the Oberlin College Library.”  See the paper index filed with the Lost Cause Press Microfiche Collection on the second floor.  To access an online catalog version of the index, use the Oberlin College Library catalog; you may do a title search on the series title “Pamphlets on Slavery,” and then cross-reference with the print index.  See the Oberlin College Library  web site for a more detailed description of the collection.

Choose from over 8,000 online entries in Oxford University Press' authoritative reference works, as well as primary source documents, images, maps, timelines, and chart and tables.

Because this topic requires historical research, you need to become familiar with the various formats of periodical publications.