Chapter 1

Fayette Black's JP Bond with Uncle Merit Street as surety (1878)

Asbury Stockdale Letter to Gov. Thomas Jones About Clay County Politics (1892)

Merit Street's Last Will and Testament Providing For a Free School in Clay County (1887; 1891) (615 kb)

Joe Manning's "Liberty or Death " Speech in Populist Newspaper (1894)

Booker T. Washington's Speech Manuscript at Atlanta's Cotton State Exposition (1895)

The Deserter, a Short Book by Robert Lee Black Under the Name of Herbert Shelton (1900) (1.7 mb)