Selected Publications of Charles L. Blockson

Curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection

• African Americans in Pennsylvania: a history and guide.
  Baltimore, Md. : Black Classic Press, 1994.
• African Americans in Pennsylvania: above ground and underground, an illustrated guide.
  Harrisburg, Pa. : RB Books, 2001.
• The ballad of the Underground Railroad. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2008
• Black genealogy.
  Baltimore, Md.: Black Classic Press, 1991.
• "Black Samuel Fraunces," Patriot, White House Steward and Restaurateur Par Excellence
• Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection: a unit of the Temple University Libraries.
  Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1990.
• A Commented bibliography of one hundred and one influential books by and about people of African descent, 1556-1982: a collector's choice.
  Amsterdam: A. Gerits & Sons, 1989.
• "Damn rare": the memoirs of an African-American bibliophile.
  Tracy, Calif. : Quantum Leap Pub., 1998.
• "Escape from slavery: the Underground Railroad"
  The National Geographic Magazine, vol. 166, no. 1, July 1984, pp. 3-39.
• The Haitian Revolution: celebrating the first black republic.
  Virginia Beach, Va. : Donning Co. Pub., 2004.
• Hippocrene guide to the Underground Railroad.
  New York: Hippocrene Books, 1994.
• The Journey of John W. Mosley: an African-American Pictorial Album.
  Philadelphia, PA: Quantum Leap Publishers, 1992.
• The Liberty Bell era: the African American story.
  Harrisburg, PA: RB Books, 2003.
• Pennsylvania's Black history.
  Philadelphia, PA.: Portfolio Associates, 1975.
• Philadelphia 1639-2000.
  Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2000.
• Philadelphia's Guide: African-American State Historical Markers.
  Philadelphia, PA: Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, 1992.
• "Sea changes in the Sea Islands: nowhere to lay down weary head,"
  The National Geographic Magazine, vol.172, no. 6, December 1987, pp. 735-763.
• The Underground Railroad.
  New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987.
• The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania.
  Jacksonville, N.C. : Flame International, 1981.

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