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As of November 16, 2000, DAS includes 734 books and manuscripts. Most are accompanied by a full bibliographic record. We invite libraries to include bibliographic information on texts of interest in local online catalogs. Catalog records for these electronic texts are available in OCLC's Worldcat and in UNC-CH's OPAC at: http://www.lib.unc.edu/catalogs/uncchcats.html. The Academic Affairs Library is committed to the long-term availability of both texts and records.

This is a very neat site and there is much DC African American material--it is a bear to search, however....

http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/cromwell/cromwell.html First Negro Churches in the District of Columbia:
Electronic Edition.
Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846

other titles http://docsouth.unc.edu/keckley/keckley.html Elizabeth Keckley, ca. 1818-1907
Behind the Scenes,
or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1868.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/greenhow/menu.html Rose O'Neal Greenhow, 1814-1864
My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington.
London: Richard Bentley, 1863.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/northup/northup.html Solomon Northup, b. 1808
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen
of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853.
Auburn [N.Y.]: Derby and Miller, 1853.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/lomax/lomax.html THE OLD CAPITOL AND ITS INMATES.
BY A LADY, WHO ENJOYED THE HOSPITALITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR A "SEASON.":
Electronic Edition.
Virginia Lomax, b. 1831

http://docsouth.unc.edu/clay/clay.html A Belle of the Fifties; Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66:
Electronic Edition.
Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915

http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/cooper/cooper.html A Voice From the South:
Electronic Edition.
Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964

http://docsouth.unc.edu/douglasslife/douglass.html Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
his Early Life as a Slave, his Escape from Bondage, and his Complete History to the Present Time
Electronic Edition.
Frederick Douglass, 1817?-1895

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