Works from the 19th Century
William Wells Brown (ca. 1814-1884) Author, Playwright, & lecture
- Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847)
- Clotel, or, The President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, (1853)
- Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met. (1853)
- The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad (1855)
- The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863)
- The Negro in the American rebellion: his heroism and his fidelity .. (1867)
- The Rising Son, or The Antecedents and Advancements of the Colored Race 1873
- My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People 1880
Charles Chesnutt (1858 – 1932) Author, Essayist, Political Activist & Lawyer
- The Conjure Woman (1899)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964) Author, Educator & Scholars
- A Voice From the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) Social Reformer, Abolitionist, Orator, Writer, & Statesman
- Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Frances E. W. Harper (1825 – 1911) Abolitionist, Suffragist, Poet, Teacher, Public Speaker, & Writer
- Autumn Leaves (also published as Forest Leaves) (1845)
- Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854), which was reprinted 20 times
- Sketches of Southern Life (1872)
- Poems (1857)
- Iola Leroy (1892)
- The Martyr of Alabama and Other Poems (1892)
- The Sparrow’s Fall and Other Poems (1894)
- Atlanta Offering (1895)
Omar ibn Said (1770–1864) Writer & Islamic Scholar
- "Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, (1831)
Elizabeth Keckley (1818 – 1907) Seamstress, Civil Activist, and Author
- Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis (1868)
David Walker (1796 – 1830) Writer & Anti-slavery Activist
- An Appeal to the Colored Peoples of the World (1829)
Harriet Wilson (1825 – 1900) Novelist
- Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859)