African American Women's History Resources at Rubenstein Library: Biography and Autobiography

Reminiscenes of my Life in Camp

• Allen, Phoebe. Meg, A Chattel: A True Story. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge  New York: E. & J.B. Young and Co., [189-?]
  

• Aunt Sally: or the cross the way of freedom; a narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan, pamphlet. 1858.
  

• Bernard, Jacqueline. Introduction by Nell Irvine Painter. Journey toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1990.

• Bradford, Sarah (1818-?). Scenes in the life of Harriet Tubman. Auburn [N.Y.] W.J. Moses, printer, 1869.

• Burton, Thomas William (1860-1939). What Experience Has Taught Me.  Introduction by John Wesley Gazaway. Illustrated. Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, 1910. Former slave in Kentucky, physician in Ohio.
  

• Elizabeth, colored minister, (1766-1866). Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of The Gospel, Born in Slavery. Tract Association of Friends, no. 170. Philadelphia: Tract association of Friends,1889.

• Gilbert, Olive. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a northern slave emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York in 1828. With a Portrait. New York: printed for the author 1850.

• Green, William, former slave. Written by himself. Narrative of Events in the Life of William Green (Formerly a Slave). Philadelphia, Historic Publications, 1969.

• Keckley, Elizabeth, (approximately 1818-1907). Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2006.

• Larison Cornelius Wilson (1837-1910). Silvia Dubois, (now 116 years old): a biobrafy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gand her freedom. 1883.

• Levering, Sara R. Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, MD and selections in prose and verse. Philadelphia: Press of Innes & Son, 1897.

• Murray, Pauli (1910-1985). Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989, c1987.

• Ray, Emma J. Smith (b.1859- ). Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Ray. Chicago, Illinois: Frees Methodist Publishing House, 1926. Introduction by C. E. McReynolds. Illustrated. Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, 1926. Reprinted Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Former Missouri slave, evangelist, revival leader, faith healer, missionary, and WCTU activist; describes her community and religious work, especially in Seattle after 1889; affiliated with the A.M.E. and Free Methodist church.

• Smith, Amanda Berry (1837-1915). The story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist: Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary: an Autobiography. Chicago, Meyer, 1893. Reprinted Northbrook, IL: Metro Books, 1969. [avail in first edition] Former MD slave, A.M.E. evangelist, faith healer, and missionary.

• Taylor, Susie King (b. 1848). Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33^rd United States Colored Troops Late 1^st S.C. Volunteers. Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Illustrated. Appendix. Boston: The Author, 1902.  Reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1968. [available in early second edition (1904)] An escaped slave from GA, worked with the First SC Volunteers, and later worked as a teacher, laundress, and nurse in Boston.

• Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954). A Colored Woman in a White World. Washington, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1968.

• Wells [Barnett], Ida B. (1862-1931). Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells.  Edited and Introduction by Alfreda M. Duster.  Foreword by John Hope Franklin. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Chicago: University of Chicago P, 1970. Born a slave in Mississippi; later a noted civil rights worker, civic leader, teacher, newspaper editor, and journalist; active in the NAACP; discusses her life through 1921 and 1927.

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