Introduction

This guide provides access to the historic full text of literature, now available in digital format with free and open access, published by and about African American women who lived during the U.S. Civil War. Multiple full text versions are provided to allow users to choose the version that best displays on their electronic device. For each African American female author birth and death dates are provided. This diverse set of women created works that reflected their challenges, struggles and triumphs. The works also embrace their humor, politics, and spirituality.

This guide also compiles links to digital material related to these authors such as historic newspaper articles, blog posts and portraits that are available throughout the Library of Congress website. In addition, links to selected external websites and a print bibliography are also included.

Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S. C. volunteers, / by Susie King Taylor. 1902. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Anna Murray Douglass, My Mother As I Recall Her, by Rosetta Douglass Sprague. 1900. Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

Light beyond the darkness 189-? African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Little Dansie's one day at Sabbath school. 1902? African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Harriet, the Moses of her people. 1911. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Poems on miscellaneous subjects.1854. African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Narrative of Sojourner Truth... 1878. Susan B. Anthony Collection, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

What Mrs. Fisher knows about old southern cooking, soups, pickles, preserves, etc. 1818. Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Lincoln; written for the occasion of the unveiling of the freedmen's monument ...1893. African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection, Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections Division.

An autobiography: the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist... 1893. Daniel Murray Collection, Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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