SELECTED PRIMARY SOURCES
- David Walker, “Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World” (1829)
- Absalom Jones, “A Thanksgiving Sermon” (1808)
- Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (1831)
- Richard Allen, The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)
- Charles Ball, A Narrative of the Life of Charles Ball (1837)
- Henry Highland Garnet, “An Address To The Slaves Of The United States” (1843)
- Frederick Douglas, “Slaveholding Religion and the Christianity of Christ” (1845)
- Jarena Lee, Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee (1849)
- “What to the Slave is the Fourth Of July?” (1852)
- Benjamin Morgan Palmer, “Thanksgiving Sermon” (1860)
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record: Alleged Causes of Lynching (1895)
- Mark Smith, ed. Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt
- WPA Slave Narratives (1930s)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
- Charles Morgan, “A Time to Speak” (1963)
- Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
- Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
- John Lewis, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1998)
- Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal (2000)
- James W. Loewen and Edward H. Sebesta, The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader(2010)
source: http://aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/
