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Joannes Leo Africanus

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In 1989 Charles L. Blockson, a pioneering scholar and collector in the field of African-Americana, compiled an annotated checklist: A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent (1556-1982): A Collector's Choice. In a field notably devoid of "highspot checklists" which abound for other types of literature, it is an excellent starting point for reference and reflection on this subject.

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1556:

Joannes Leo Africanus, De totius Africae descriptione, Libri

1583:

Juan Latino, Ad catholicum; pariter et invictissimum Phillipum dei gratia Hispaniarum Regem, de foelicissima serenissimi Ferdinandi Principis natiuitate, epigrammatum liber

1742:

Jacobus Elisa Joannes Capitein, Staatkundig-godgeleerd onderzoekschrift over de slaverny, als niet strydig tegen de christelyke vryheid, welk, onder het genengen van den al-hoog-eerwaarden en wyd-beroemden Heere Joan van den Honert, T. H. Soon

1754:

John Woolman, Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes

1766:

Anthony Benezet, A Caution and Warning to Great Britian and her Colonies: in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominions by Anthony Benezet

1770:

Crispus Attucks, A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770

1772:

Francis Hargrave, An argument in the case of James Sommersett, a Negro, lately determined by the Court of King's Bench: wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present unlawfulness of domestic slavery in England

1773:

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

1775:

John Murray, Proclamation of John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, in defence of His Majesty's cause

1782:

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia: written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for use of a foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him

1782:

Ignatius Sancho, Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African

1787:

Jupiter Hammon, An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York by Jupiter Hammon, servant of John Lloyd, Jun, Esq., of the Manor of Queen's Village, Long-Island

1789:

Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself

1791:

Benjamin Banneker, Banneker's Almanacs

1797:

L. E. Moreau De Saint-Mery, Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de l'Isle Saint-Domingue

1799:

Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 by Mungo Park

1808:

Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament

1810:

Henri Gregoire, An Enquiry concerning the intellectual and moral faculties, and literature of negroes; followed with an account of the life and works of fifteen negroes and mulattoes distinguished in science, literature and the arts

1822:

, An official report of the trails of sundry Negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection in the state of South-Carolina: preceded by an introduction and narrative; and in an appendix, a report of the trails of four white persons, on indictments for attempting to excite the slaves to insurrection

1829:

David Walker, Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles, Together With a Preamble to The Colored Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America

1831:

Nat Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner

1841:

John Quincy Adams, Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States: in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut

1845:

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

1845:

Armand Lanusse, Les Cenelles

1846:

Alexandre Dumas, The Three Guardsmen

1850:

Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth

1851:

, An act to amend, and supplementary to the Act entitled 'An Act respecting fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters', approved february twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three

1852:

Frederick Douglass, Oration, delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, July 5, 1852

1852:

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

1853:

William Wells Brown, Clotel

1857:

Roger R. Taney, The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court

1861:

Martin Robinson Delaney, Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

1862:

Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation