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Bell, Howard Holman, ed. Minutes of the Proceedings of the National Negro Conventions, 1830-1864. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

Blackett, R. J. M.  Building an Antislavery Wall: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitionist Movement, 1830-1860. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Blyden, Nemata. "Edward Jones: An African American in Sierra Leone." In Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World, ed. John W. Pulis. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999.

Campbell, James T.  Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Carey, Mathew.  Letters on the Colonization Society. Philadelphia: Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1834.

Delany, Martin Robison. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States. Philadelphia, 1852. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1968.

Dixon, Chris.  African America and Haiti: Emigration and Black Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

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