African-American History: Primary Text Index
http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blprimary_text.htm

African American Perspectives; Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907.
From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress, this collection includes almost 400 pamphlets written by African Americans and others
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909.
From The American Memory Project, Library of Congress, this collection includes almost 400 pamphlets written by African Americans and others.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html

Land of the Unfree? Race and Labor in Early America
This site was created by Theresa Mudrock, History selector at the University of Washington Libraries, and is a tutorial on research and materials, both primary and secondary.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/history/bi/hst388/

The following highly selective suggestions are primarily electronic resources widely accessible and, while not focused on the Pacific Northwest, provide excellent context and perspective on the condition of African Americans throughout United States History.

African American Newspapers; the 19th Century
http://www.accessible.com/search/prdcls.asp
Parts I-VII, more to come. This fully searchable database provides a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day. Starting with Freedom's Journal (1827) and continuing well into the 19th century (new titles continue to be added), the database focuses on newspapers published in the American northeast, but includes one Canadian (Ontario) newspaper.

The African American Years, Gabriel Burns Stepto. New York: Scribner, 2003.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
With over 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 historical photographs, this resource is a treasure of first person accounts of life in the slave states.

Freedom on My Mind; the Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience, Manning Marable, editor. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Making of America (MOA)
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
Cornell University Library is constructing a very large, thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Negro Periodicals in the United States. Westport, Ct.: Negro Universities Press.
This collection of negro serials was published in 1970 as a reprint series and includes 35 titles. Series I covers titles published between It is one of the few identifiable collections dealing exclusively with early serialized publications on the African American as a subject. See http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/historic.htm
for and excellent description of the series.

Reporting Civil Rights. 2 volumes. New York: Library of America, 2003. Constituting volumes 137 and 138 of the acclaimed Library of America series, this collection brings together a very large collection of journalistic writings covering the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West, edited by Frank N. Schubert. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.