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Good morning, The following announces a new addition to the American Memory online collections at the Library of Congress. Please accept our apologies for any duplicate postings. From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 Pamphlets documenting the African-American experience from slavery to the early twentieth century are the most recent addition to the American Memory historical collections. From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 contains 397 pamphlets written by African Americans and others on a variety of subjects relating to African-American history, including slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Authors include Lydia Maria Child, Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington. From Slavery to Freedom offers page images of each pamphlet as well as fully searchable transcribed texts and browse lists organized by author, title, and subject. A special presentation highlights approximately twenty collection titles. These include The Life of James Mars, a first-person account of slave life in Connecticut; The Influential Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by abolitionist Angelina Emily Grimké; a turn-of-the-century voting manual for African-American men; and a speech by Booker T. Washington advocating support for initiatives to educate African Americans. Although they do not offer a comprehensive history of African-American life, these pamphlets provide insight into the ideas and events of their day in a historically important physical format that often fails to survive the test of time. Those interested in publishing will enjoy the variety of papers, type faces, and printing methods used to produce these materials. The African American Pamphlet Collection was accessioned in 1990-91 from a miscellaneous pamphlet collection in the Library's Rare Book and Special Collections Division. The pamphlets were singled out for their significance to African-American history and recataloged to enhance access. The collection complements the division's Daniel A.P. Murray Pamphlet Collection, which is also a part of American Memory (URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/). The online presentation of the African American Pamphlet Collection was made possible by a major gift from the Citicorp Foundation, and is part of a five-year effort to add rare and unique items from the Library's vast African-American collections to the National Digital Library. From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 can be found at the following URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/ Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov -- Danna C. Bell-Russel National Digital Library Learning Center 202-707-4159 dbell@loc.gov =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=