Note: ** The textual materials for the this collection have been drawn from collections of manuscripts and printed pamphlets, from newspapers, from serials published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Of these sources, the pamphlets, the A.M.E. serials, and some manuscript items have been transcribed or processed using optical character recognition software to derive searchable text from the page-images. Of 19781 bibliographic records, 468 are accompanied by full text.