Local Subject Headings Related to African American History

• African American Laborers
• African American organizations
• African American poets [see also African American writers]
• African American publishers
• African American railroad employees
• African American soldiers
• African American translators
• African American writers [for works about or by African American writers]
• African Americans – Autobiography
• African Americans – Relations with Quakers
• African Americans – Religious education
• African Americans – satire
• Black pirates
• Black writers [for works about or by black writers]
• Blacks – Relations with Mayas
• Blacks – Religious education
• Blacks – Satire
• Race relations
• Slave trade – International law
• Slave trade – Justification
• Slavery – Constitutional law
• Slavery – Justification
• Slaves – Autobiography
• Slaves – Religious education

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W. Birch & Son. South east corner of Third, and Market Street. Philadelphia. Hand-colored engraving, 1799.

Unidentified Photographer. Construction on Market Street between 17th and 18th streets, July 8, 1904. Gelatin silver print, 1904.

William L. Breton. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Philadelphia. Kennedy & Lucas' Lithography. Lithograph, 1829.

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