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Books and Pamphlets (D's)

 

Dancy, John Campbell,
Sand Against the Wind: The Memoirs of John C. Dancy. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1966.
E185.97.D22 A3

Danforth, Mildred E.,
A Quaker Pioneer: Laura Haviland, Superintendent of the Underground Railroad. New York: Exposition Press, 1961.
E450 .D26

Darden, Joe T., et. al,
Detroit, Race, and Uneven Development. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1987.
F574.D49 N4335 1987

Davenport, M. Marguerite,
Azalia: The Life of Madame E. Azalia Hackley. Boston, MA: Chapman & Grimes 1947.
ML429.H23 D3 1947

David, Linda, and Erlene Stetson,
Glorying in Tribulation: The Lifework of Sojourner Truth. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1994.
E185.97.T8 S74 1994

David, Paul A., et. al,
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
E449.F653 R42

Davidson, Basil,
The African Awakening. London: Cape, 1955.
DT639 .D35

Davidson, Basil,
Black Mother, Africa: The Years of Trial. London: V. Gollancz, 1961.
DT352 .D33 1961

Davis, Allison, and John Dollard,
Children of Bondage: The Personality Development of Negro Youth in the Urban South. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1940.
E185.86 .D38

Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds.,
The Slave's Narrative. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
E444 .S575 1985

Davis, David Brion,
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.
HT871 .D3

Davis, David Brion,
The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.
E441 .D25.

Davis, Jefferson,
Relations of States. Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered
in the Senate of the United States, May 7th, 1860, on the resolutions submitted by him
on 1st of March, 1860. Baltimore, MD: Printed by J. Murphy & Co., 1860.
E458.4 .H89 no. 68

Davis, Russell H.,
Memorable Negroes in Cleveland's Past. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical Society, 1969.
F486 .W58 no. 123

Deming, Clarence,
By-ways of Nature and Life. (A collection of articles originally published, by the author, in the New York Evening Post.) New York; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884.
PR4529.D2 B8

Derrick, Jonathan,
Africa's Slaves Today. New York: Schocken Books, 1974.
HT1321 .D47 1975

Deskins, Donald Richard,
Residential Mobility of Negroes in Detroit, 1837-1965. Ann Arbor, MI: Department of Geography, University of Michigan, 1972.
HD7304.D4 D48

Desmond, Cosmas,
The Discarded People: An Account of African Resettlement in South Africa. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1971.
HD989.A3 D4 1971

Detroit Black Writers' Guild,
Before I Wake and Other Tales. (Fiction.) Detroit, MI: Detroit Black Writer's Guild, 1990.
PS572.D45 B4 1990

Detroit Black Writers' Guild,
Through Ebony Eyes. (Fiction.) Detroit, MI: The [Detroit Black Writers'] Guild, 1987.
PS572.D45 T47 1987

Detroit Historical Department, Black Historic Sites Committee,
BHS: Black Historic Sites in Detroit. Detroit, MI: The Detroit Historical Department, 1989.
F574.D46 D48 1989x

Detroit Historical Museum, Black Historic Sites Committee,
Detroit's Black Heritage Tour. Detroit, MI: Southeast Michigan Regional Ethnic Heritage Studies Center, 1975.
F574.D4t F64 no.3

Dett, R. Nathaniel, ed.,
Religious Folk-songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute. Hampton, VA: Hampton Institute Press, 1927.
M1670 .H3 1927

Devereux, William Cope,
A Cruise in the Gorgon. London: Dawsons, 1968. Reprint of 1st edition, London: Bell & Daldy, 1869.
DT365 .D49 1968

DeVries, James E.,
Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town: The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan,
1900-1915. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1984.
F574.M57 D48 1984

Dewees, Jacob,
The Great Future of America and Africa. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press,
1971. Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia, PA: Dewees, 1854.
E448 .D5 1971

Dicey, Edward,
Six Months in the Federal States, vol. 1-2. (Portions of this work were first published in Macmillan's Magazine and in the Spectator.) London, Cambridge, Macmillan, & Co., 1863.
E167 .D55

Doherty, Catherine de Hueck,
Friendship House. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1946.
BV2783 .D4 1946

Dolgon, Corey,
Innovators and Gravediggers: Capital Restructuring and Class Formation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945-1994. (Ph.D thesis – University of Michigan, 1994.) Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1996.
F574.A68 D64 1994x

Dorr, James Augustus,
Objections to the Act of Congress, Commonly Called the Fugitive Slave Law
Answered, in a Letter to Hon. Washington Hunt... New York: 1850.
E450 .D71

Dorson, Richard Mercer,
Negro Folktales in Michigan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.
GR103 .D6

Douglass, Frederick,
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time, Including His Connection with the Anti-slavery Movement. (Enlarged from the author's My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: l855.) Hartford, CT: Park Publishing, 1882, 1881.
E449 .D74 1882

Douglass, Frederick,
My Bondage and My Freedom. Auburn: Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, 1855.
E449 .D738 1855

Douglass, Frederick,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself. (Preface signed: Wm. Lloyd Garrison.) Boston, MA: Pub. at the Anti-slavery Office, 1845.
E449 .D746 1845

Douglas, Stephen A.,
Kansas--Lecompton Convention. Speech of Senator Douglas, of Illinois, on the
President's message. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 9, 1857. (Bound with J. M. Howard, Military Interference with Elections, Washington, 1864.) Washington, D.C.: Printed by L. Towers, 1857.
E458.4 .H89 no.53

Douglas, Stephen A.,
Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on the "Measures of Adjustment," Delivered in the City Hall, Chicago, October 23, 1850. Washington, D.C.: Gideon & Co., Printers, 1851.
E423 .D73

Drake, Charles D.,
Union and Anti-slavery Speeches Delivered During the Rebellion. Published for the Benefit of the Ladies' Union Aid Society of St. Louis, Missouri. Miami, FL: Mnemosyne Pub. Co., 1969. Reprint. Originally published: Cincinnati, 1864.
E458 .D76 1969

Drake, Daniel,
Dr. Daniel Drake's Letters on Slavery to Dr. John C. Warren of Boston. Reprinted from the National Intelligencer, Washington, April 3, 5, and 7, 1851; with an introduction by Emmet Field Horine. New York: Schuman's, 1940.
E449 .D83

Drayton, Daniel,
Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail. Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl. (The author was convicted of aiding slaves to escape from Washington, D. C.) Boston, MA: B. Marsh; New York: American and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, 1853.
E450 .D76 1853

Drinker, Frederick E.,
Booker T. Washington, the Master Mind of a Child of Slavery; an appealing life story rivaling in its picturesque simplicity and power those recounted about the lives of Washington and Lincoln. A biographical tale destined to live in history and furnish an inspiration for present and future generations; a human interest story depicting the life achievements of a great leader of a rising race. Philadelphia, PA: Printed by National Publishing Co., 1915.
E185.97.W17 D85 1915

Drisler, Henry,
"Bible View of Slavery" by John H. Hopkins, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont,
Examined. New York: C. S. Wescott & Co., 1863.
E463 .L96 no.39

Drummond, Henry,
Tropical Africa. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1888.
DT361 .D79

Du Bois, W. E. B.,
Black Folk, Then and Now: An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1939,
HT1581 .D75 1939

Du Bois, W. E. B.,
Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part which Black Folk Played
in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Company, 1935.
E668 .D83

Du Bois, W. E. B.,
The Suppression of the African Slave-trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870. New York: Social Science Press, 1954.
E441 .D81 1954

Dumond, Dwight Lowell,
Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
E441.D84

Dumond, Dwight Lowell,
A Bibliography of Antislavery in America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Z1249.S6 D8

Dunn, Jacob Piatt,
Indiana, a Redemption from Slavery. Boston, MA; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, & Company, 1888.
F526 .D92

Dunn, Jacob Piatt,
Slavery Petitions and Papers. ("Petitions to Congress from Northwest and Indiana territories for the suspension of the sixth article of compact of the Ordinance of 1787, and the admission of slavery to the territory, together with the counterpetitions, the reports on them, and the accompanying documents...[also] the report of General W. Johnson to the Indiana legislature in 1808, against the modification of the sixth article, and the opinion of John Johnson in Polly's case."--Introd.) Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1894.
F521 .I41 vol. 2, no. 12