Some of the _Publications_ of Atlanta University contain valuable studies of special localities or occupations.
Several negroes have written histories of their race.

George W.
Williams's _History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, 2 vols.

(1883)_, is old but contains material of value.

William H.Thomas, in _The American Negro (1901)_, is pessimistic as to the future because of the moral delinquencies of his people.

Booker T.Washington's _The Story of the Negro, the Rise of the Race from Slavery (1909)_, on the other hand, emphasizes achievements rather than deficiencies and is optimistic in tone.