Celebrating African American History and Culture-“This collection contains material from almost every branch of the Libraries, including our new location in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. We’ve put this together to celebrate the opening of our newest Smithsonian museum in September, 2016 and to showcase some of the public domain material that we hold that supports research on the African American experience.”

Online digitized books in this collection include:

• The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers, of the road.

• The Suppressed book about slavery!

• Teachings of patriots and statesmen; or, The “founders of the republic” on slavery

• Speeches, lectures, and letters

• Selections from the addresses, inaugurals, and letters of Abraham Lincoln,

• The planter’s victim; or, Incidents of American slavery ..

• The overthrow of American slavery, containing descriptions of important events and sketches of some of the prominent actors

• Oration by Frederick Douglass, delivered on the occasion of the unveiling of the Freedmen’s Monument in memory of Abraham Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., April 14th, 1876 With an appendix

• The moral crusader, William Lloyd Garrison; a biographical essay founded on “The story of Garrison’s life told by his children”,

• Liberty or slavery; the great national question Three prize essays on American slavery ..

• Life of Charles Sumner,

• Leaven for doughfaces; or, Threescore and ten parables touching slavery

• An inside view of slavery : or, A tour among the planters

• The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome : the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States

• Harriet, the Moses of her people,

• Folks from Dixie

• Father Henson’s story of his own life

• The American Negro; what he was, what he is, and what he may become; a critical and practical discussion,

• William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children

• Emancipation and the freed in American sculpture

• Frederick Douglass the orator