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Bannan, Phyllis M. "Arthur and Lewis Tappan: A Study of Religious and Reform in New York City" (Columbia University, 1950).

Butler, Addie Louise Joyner. "The Distinctive Black College: Talladega, Tuskegee and Morehouse." (Columbia University, 1976).

DeBoer, Clara Merrit. "The Role of the Afro-Americans in the Origin and Work of the American Missionary Association, 1839-1877." (Rutgers University, 1973).

Drake, Richard Bryant. "The American Missionary Association and the Southern Negro, 1861- 1888." (Emory University, 1957).

Ellworth Clayton Summer. "Oberlin and the Anti-Slavery Movement Up to the Civil War." (Cornell University, 1930).

Garcia, William Burres. "The Life and Choral Music of John Wesley Work, 1901-1967." (University of Iowa, 1973).

Haywood, Jacquelyn S. "The American Missionary Association in Louisiana During Reconstruction" (University of California at Los Angeles, 1974).

Horst, Samuel Levi. "Education for Manhood: The Education of Blacks in Virginia during the Civil War." (University of Virginia, 1977).

Johnson, Clifton Herman. "The American Missionary Association, 1846- 1861: A Study of Christian Abolitionism." (University of North Carolina, 1958).

Jones, Jacqueline. "The 'Great Opportunity': Northern Teachers and the Georgia Freedmen, 1865-75." (University of Wisconsin, 1976).

Jones, Maxine Deloris. "A Glorious Work: The American Missionary Association and Black North Carolinians, 1863-1880." (Florida State University, 1982).

Kramer, Alfred S. "Patterns of Racial Inclusion Among Selected Congregations of Three Protestant Denominations" (New York University, 1955).

Lundy, Harold W. "A Study of the Transition from White to Black Presidents at Three Selected Schools Founded by the American Missionary Association." (University of Wisconsin, 1978).

McMillan, Joseph Turner, Jr. "The Development of Higher Education for Blacks During the Late Nineteenth Century: A Study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Wilberforce University; The American Missionary Association; Hampton Institute; and Fisk University." (Columbia University, 1985).

Martin, Bert Edmon. "Freedom and the Puritan Conscience: American Destiny and the

Defenders of the Amistad Africans" (Baylor University, 1979).

Musser, Necia Ann. "Home Missions on the Michigan Frontier: A Calendar of the Michigan Letters of the American Home Missionary Society, 1825-1846." (University of Michigan, 1967).

Patterson, Joseph N. "A Study of the History of the Contributions of the American

Missionary Association to the Higher Education of the Negro-With Special Reference to Five Selected Colleges Founded by the Association, 1865-1900." (Cornell University, 1956).

Reynolds, Todd Armstrong. "The American Missionary Association's Antislavery Campaign in Kentucky, 1848- 1860." (Ohio State University, 1979).

Robinson, Armstead L. "Day of Jubilo: Civil War and the Demise of Slavery in the Mississippi Valley, 1861- 1865." (University of Rochester, 1977).

Robinson, Michael Rugene. "The Amistad Case: Legal, Moral and Political Implications of an Abolitionist Cause." (University of New Orleans, 1983).

Robinson, William Hannibal. "The History of Hampton Institute, 1868- 1949." (New York University, 1953).

Roundtree, Thelma Louise. "The Place of Humanities in Sixteen Negro Colleges." (Emory University, 1953).

Senior, Robert Cholerton. "New England Congregationalists and the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1860." (Yale University, 1954).

Sherer, Robert G. "Let Us Make Men: Negro Education in Nineteenth Century Alabama." (University of North Carolina, 1969).

Simpson, Frank T. "A Study of the A.M.A. Schools and Colleges for Negroes." (Fisk University, 1932).

Thornberry, Jerry John. "The Development of Black Atlanta, 1865- 1885." (University of Maryland, 1977).

Wolfe, Allis. "Women Who Dared, Northern Teachers of the Southern Freedmen, 1862-1872." (City University of New York, 1982).

Yeaney, Darrell W. "The United Ministries in Higher Education: A Historical and Critical Appraisal (Boston University: 1975).

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Abbott, Lyman. Henry Ward Beecher. (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1904).

Adams, Emphraim. The Iowa Band. (New and Revised Edition, Chicago: The Pilgrim Press, 1902).

Adams, John Quincy. 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. Gedney, Delivered of the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841, with a Review of the Case of the Antelope, Reported in the 10th, 11th and 12th Volumes of Wheaton's Reports. (New York: S. W. Benedict, 1841).

African Captives, The. Trial of the Prisoners of the Amistad on the Writ of Habeus Corpus Before the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Connecticut at Hartford, Judges Thompson and Judson, September Term, 1839. (New York, 1839).

American Missionary Association. A Sketch of the Life of Mr. Daniel Hand and of His Benefaction to the American Missionary Association for the Education of the Colored People in the Southern States of America. (New York: American Missionary Association, 1889).

Amistad Case, The. Two volumes in one, containing U.S. 26th Congress 1st Session, Africans Taken in the Amistad and John Quincy Adams, Argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of the U.S., Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Other Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad, The Basic Afro-American Reprint Library. (New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation).

Archibald, Warren S. Horace Bushnell. (Hartford: E. V. Mitchell, 1930).

Armstrong, Mary Frances and Helen W. Ludlow. Hampton and Its Students by Two of its Teachers. (Reprint of 1874 edition. Chicago: Afro- American Press, 1969).

Armstrong, William H. A Friend to God's Poor, Edward Parmelee Smith. (Athens: University of Georgia Press: 1993)

Bacon, Leonard. Thirteen Historical Discourses on the Completion of Two Hundred Years from the Beginning of the First Church in New Haven. (New Haven: Durrie & Pick, 1839).

Bacote, Clarence Albert. The Story of Atlanta University: A Century of Service, 1865- 1965. (Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1969).

Baldwin, Roger Sherman. Argument of Roger S. Baldwin of New Haven, Before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs.Cinque, and Others, Africans of the Amistad. (New York: S. W. Benedict, 1841).

Barber, John W. A History of the Amistad Captains: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, by the Africans on Board; Their Voyage, and Capture Near Long Island, New York; With Biographical Sketches of Each of the Surviving Africans. Also, An Account of the Trials Had on Their Case, Before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the District of Connecticut. (New Haven: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840).

Barnes, Albert. The Church and Slavery. (Reprint of 1857 edition. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969).

Barrows, John Henry. Henry Ward Beecher: The Shakespeare of the Pulpit. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1898).

Beam, Lura. He Called Them by the Lightning: A Teacher's Odyssey in the Negro South, 1908-1919. (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967).

Beard, Augustus Field. The Story of the Amistad. (New York: American Missionary Association, n.d.).

A Crusade of Brotherhood, A History of the American Missionary Association. (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1909).

Beecher, Charles, editor. The Providence of God: The Historical Development of the Negro. (New York: American Missionary Association, n.d.).

Brownlee, Frederick Leslie. Heritage of Freedom: A Centenary Story of Ten Schools Offering Education in Freedom. (Philadelphia: United Church of Christ Press, 1953).

New Day Ascending. (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1946).

Butchart, Ronald E. Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education, 1862-1875. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980).

Cable, Mary. Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad. (New York: Viking Press, 1971).

Campbell, Clarice T. and Oscar A. Rogers. Mississippi: The View from Tougaloo. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979).

Central Congregational Church Centennial Committee. Our Centennial Year. (New Orleans: Central Congregational Church, 1972).

Clark, Clifford E. Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978).

Coe, David B. The Origin and Work of the American Home Missionary Society. (New York: American Home Missionary Society, 1887).

Cummings, Naomi T., et al. The History of St. John's Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts. 1844-1962. (Springfield: St. John's Congregational Church, 1962).

Dorn, Jacob H. Washington Gladden: Prophet of the Social Gospel. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968).

DeBoer, Clara Merritt. His Truth is Marching On, African Americans Who Taught the Freedmen for the American Missionary Association 1861-1877. (Garland Publishing, Inc. New York, 1995).

Be Jubilant My Feet, African American Abolitionists in the American Missionary Association, 1839- 1861. (Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1994).

Douglass, Harlan Paul. Christian Reconstruction in the South. (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1909)

Douglass, Truman Orville. The Pilgrims of Iowa. (Chicago: The Pilgrim Press, 1911).

Drago, Edmund L. Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989).

Driskell, David C., editor. Amistad II Afro-American Art (Nashville: Department of Art, Fisk University, 1975).

Dunning, Albert Elijah. Congregationalists in America: A Popular History of Their Origin, Belief, Policy, Growth and Work. (New York: J. Hill, 1894).

Eisenach, George John. A History of German Congregational Churches in the United States. (Yankton: The Pioneer Press, 1938).

Engs, Robert Francis. Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861- 1890. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979).

Fisk University. BuiId the Future: Addresses Marking the Inauguration of Charles Spurgeon Johnson. (Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1949).

Gleme, Iris Webb. Thy Loving Children Still: History and Memories of Pleasant Hill Academy. (Allen Park, Michigan: P.H.A. Book Fund, 1983).

Goodkoontz, Clin B. Home Missions on the American Frontier, With Particular Reference to the American Home Missionary Society. (New York: Octagon Books, 1971).

Griffith, Helen. Dauntless in Mississippi: The Life of Sara A. Dickey, 1838-1904. (Dinosaur Press, 1966).

Hibben, Paxton. Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait. (New York: The Press of the Readers Club, 1942).

Hooker, Elizabeth R. Religion in the Highlands: Native Churches and Missionary Enterprises in the Southern Appalachian Area. (New York: Home Missions Council, 1933).

Johnson, Clifton H. The American Missionary Association Archives as a Source for the Study of American History. (New York: United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1966).

Johnson, Kay Cousins. Give Us Free: Screenplay. (Los Angeles: Writers Guild of American, West, Inc., 1970).

Jones, Howard. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980).

Jones, Maxine and Joe Richardson. Talladega College: The First Century. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990).

Knox, Thomas W. Life and Work of Henry Ward Beecher, An Authentic, Impartial and Complete History of His Public Career and Private Life from the Cradle to the Grave. (New York: Wilson & Ellis, 1887).

Kohn, Bernice. The Amistad Mutiny. (New York: McCall Publishing Company, 1971).

Kromer, Helen. The Amistad Revolt, 1839: The Slave Uprising Aboard the Spanish Schooner. (New York: F. Watts, 1973).

Lawson, Ellen N. and Marlene Merrill (editors). The Three Sarahs: Documents of Antebellum Black College Women. (New York: The Edwain Mellen Press, 1984).

Liberty or Slavery: The Great National Question: Three Prize Essays on American Slavery. (Boston: Congregational Board of Publications, 1857).

Lindquist, Emory K,, editor. The Letters of the Rev. Samuel Young Lum, Pioneer Kansas Missionary, 1854-1858. (Kansas State Historical Society, 1959).

Logan, Rayford W. Howard University: The First Hundred Years 1867-1967. (New York: New York University Press, 1969).

McCulloch, Margaret C. Fearless Advocate of the Right: The Life of Francis Julius LeMoyne, M.D., 1798-1897. (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1941).

McKivigan, John R. The War Against Proslavery Religion: Abolitionism and the Northern Churches, 1836-1879. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984).

McLoughlin, William G. The Meaning of Henry Ward Beecher: An Essay on the Shifting Values of Mid-Victorian America, 1840-1870 (New York: Knopf, 1976).

McPherson, James. The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).

Marsh, J.B.T. The Story of the Jubilee Singers; With Their Songs. (Reprint of revised edition first published in 1881.) (New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969).

Martin, Bert Edmon. All We Want Is Make Us Free: La Amistad and the Reform Abolitionists. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1986).

Martin, Christopher. The Amistad Affair. (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1970).

Merideth, Robert. The Politics of the Universe: Edward Beecher, Abolition and Orthodoxy. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968).

Morris, Robert C. Readin, 'Riting, and Reconstruction: The Educating of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).

Murphy, Lawrence R. Antislavery in the Southwest: William G. Kephart's Mission to New Mexico, 1850- 53. (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1978).

Niles, Mrs. Blair. East By Day. (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941).

Moody, William R. The Life of Dwight L Moody. (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900).

Obenhus, Victor, with Ross Blount. And See the People. (Chicago: Chicago Theological Seminary, 1968).

Oedel, Howard T., editor. Daniel Hand of Madison, Connecticut, 1801-1891. (Madison: Madison Historical Society, 1973).

Owens, William A. Black Mutiny: The Revolt on the Schooner Amistad. (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1968).

Patton, William W. The Lost Century of Congregationalism; or, The Influence on Church and State of the Faith and Polity of the Pilgrim Fathers. (Washington, D.C.: W. M. Stuart, 1878).

Peabody, Francis Greenwood. Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute, Told in Connection With the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the School (Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918).

Peck, Elisabeth S. Berea's First Century. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1955).

Pike, Gustavus D. The Jubilee Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars. (London: Hadder and Stoughton, 1873).

Pond, William C. Gospel Pioneering: Reminiscences of Early Congregationalism in California. (Oberlin: The New Printing Company, 1921).

Price, Hollis F., editor. Our American Missionary Association Heritage. (New York: United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, 1966).

Proctor, Henry Hugh. Between Black and White: Autobiographical Sketches. (Reprint of 1925 edition). (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1978).

Richardson, Joe M. Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861- 1890. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986).

A History of Fisk University, 1865- 1946. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1980).

Rohrer, James R. Keepers of the Covenant, Frontier Missions and the Decline of Congregationalism 1774- 1818. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Schall, Keith L., editor. Stony the Road: Chapters in the History of Hampton lnstitute. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977).

Sherer, Robert S. Subordination or Liberation? The Development and Conflicting Theories of Black Education in Nineteenth Century Alabama. (University of Alabama Press, 1977).

Smith, C.S. An Historical Sketch of Home Missionary Work in Vermont, By the Congregational Churches. (Montpelier: Press of the Watchma Publishing company, 1893).

Spike, Paul. Photographs of My Father. (New York: Knopf, 1973).

Stanley, Alfred Knighton. The Children Is Crying: Congregationalism Among Black People. (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1979).

Stanley, J. Taylor. A History of Black Congregational Christian Churches in the South. (New York: United Church Press, 1978).

Stern, Emma.The Long Black Schooner: The Voyage of the Amistad. (New York: Aladdin Books, 1953).

Strong, William Ellsworth. The Story of the American Board: An Account of the First Hundred Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1970).

Taylor, Richard H. Southern Congregational Churches. (Benton Harbor: Richard H. Taylor, 1994).

The Congregational Churches of the West . ( Benton Harbor: Richard H. Taylor, 1992).

The Churches of Christ of the Congregational Way in New England. (Benton Harbor: Richard H. Taylor, 1989).

Tappan, Lewis. The Life of Arthur Tappan. (New York: Hud & Houghton, 1970).

Thomas, Edward Herman. James W.C. Pennington: African American Churchman and Abolitionist (New York: Garland Publishing, 1995).

United States, The, Appellants, vs. the Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, Her Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, Together with Her Cargo and the Africans Mentioned and Described in the Several Libels and Claims. On Appeal from the Circult Court of the U.S. for the District of Connecticut. No. 42, Supreme Court of the United States, 1841.

United States Circuit Court, District of Connecticut. Case of the Africans, 1839.

United States Congress, House of Representatives. Africans Taken in the Amistad. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting the Information Required by the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23rd Ultimo, in Relation to the Africans Taken in the Vessel Called the Amistad, & c. House Senate Document 185. 26th Congress, 1st Session, 1840.

United States Congress, Senate. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting, In Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, Copies of Correspondence Relative to the Negroes Taken on Board the Schooner Amistad. Senate Document 179. 26th Congress, 2nd Session, 1841.

Vernon, Ambrose White. The Nobler Risk and Other Sermons. Selected and edited by Roby B. Chamberlain. (Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth Publications, 1955).

Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery. (Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1969).






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