Black Writers and Artists

Contains works by writers such as James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Claude Brown.

This collection documents significant events and periods in French history throughout the 17th-20th centuries, and includes some works by black writers.

Contains works by James Baldwin, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other black authors.

Included in this collection are approximately 5,600 individually cataloged letters, diaries, military and court records, ledger books, and printed ephemera (broadsides, handbills, etc.) related to the Maryland region--principally dating from 1750 to 1900. This collection includes some works by African American residents of Maryland.

The African-American and African Pamphlet Collection consists of 20th century materials on African, African-American, and Caribbean culture and literature. The collection spans the years 1905-1979, although the majority of the pamphlets date from the 1960s and 1970s. The pamphlets are in English, French, and a variety of African languages, such as Swahili, Tsonga, Tswana and Xhosa.

This website is designed to provide online access to both the French originals and the English translations of key primary sources dealing with the grain shortage faced by the colony of Saint-Domingue in 1789. Some of these pamphlets were written by black writers such as Julien Raimond and Vincent Ogé.

Digitized copies of the items in the French pamphlet collection. Includes some works by black writers.