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(in chronological order)

The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 1943, Russell Russell, 1969; reprint, University of N.C. Press, 1994, 1995).

 

 

 

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans  (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947; revised and enlarged, 1957, 1967, with Alfred Moss: 1974, 1980, 1987, 1994, and 2000; Vintage Paperback edition, Random House, 1969; Indian edition, 1973; Japanese translation, 1974; German translation, 1978; French translation, 1984; Portuguese translation, 1989; Chinese translation, 1990).

 

The Militant South, 1800-1860 (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956; paperback edition, Beacon Press, 1964; reprint, University of Illinois Press, 2002).

 

 

 

Reconstruction After the Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1961; paperback edition, 1963, 1995).

 

 

 

The Emancipation Proclamation (Doubleday & Company, 1963; Edinburgh University Press, 1963; Anchor paperback, 1965; reprint, Harlan Davidson Inc, 1995).

 

 

Land of the Free, with John W. Caughey and Ernest R. May (Franklin Publications; Benziger Bros., 1965; revised edition, 1970).

 

 

 

Illustrated History of Black Americans, with the editors of Time-Life Books (Time-Life Inc., 1970 and 1973).

 

 

 

A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Ante-bellum North (Louisiana State University Press, 1976).

 

 

 

Racial Equality in America (University of Chicago Press, 1976; reprint, University of Missouri Press, 1993).

 

 

 

George Washington Williams: A Biography (University of Chicago Press, 1985; reprint, Duke University Press, 1998).

 

 

 

Race and History: Selected Essays 1938-1988 (Louisiana State University Press, 1990; reprint, 1992).

 

 

 

The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century (University of Missouri Press, 1993).

 

 

 

African Americans and the Living Constitution, Ed., with Genna Rae McNeil (Smithsonian Institute Press, 1995).

 

 

 

The Diary of James T. Ayers: Civil War Recruiter, Ed. (Louisiana State University Press, 1999).

 

 

 

My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin, Ed., With John Whittington Franklin (Louisiana State University Press, 1997; 2000).

 

 

 

Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, with Loren Schweninger (Oxford University Press, 2005).

 

 

 

In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South, with Loren Schweninger (Oxford University Press, 2005).

 

 

 

Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).

At his first book-signing party for The Free Negro in North Carolina, September 1943.