Anthologies of African American Writing

Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860

"The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860" . Ed. Carter G. Woodson. Washington, DC: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1926. xxxii+672 pp.

• Repr. New York: Russell & Russell, 1969. xxxii+672 pp.
• Repr. with Intro. Bob Blaisdell. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2013. xlix+672 pp. [Google Books limited preview]

• HathiTrust (3 copies)

Introduction – I. Letters to the American Colonization Society – II. Letters to Antislavery Workers and Agencies – III. Letters Largely Personal or Private – IV. Miscellaneous Letters.

"This treasury of historically valuable correspondence contains hundreds of letters exchanged by African Americans and abolitionists in the decades preceding the Civil War. An essential reference for students of American history and politics, it recaptures the voices of slaves and freemen, lawyers, ministers, and political and philosophical leaders, including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison" (publisher's description for Dover edition; WorldCat).

• "Journal of Negro History" 11.4 (1926): 685-87. "JSTOR".

• Another anthology edited by Carter G. Woodson (in 1925):

• Lash 1946: 723.
• [not in Kinnamon 1997]

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