THE CHARLES D. MARTIN COLLECTION
Collection of books by and about African Americans in America, South America, Africa, and
the West Indies purchased by North Carolina Central University in March 1950. The collection
was assembled by the late Dr. Charles Douglas Martin, a West Indian Moravian minister. The
collection includes numerous works during the Slavery period in the United States, many of
the works are written by slaves and ex-slaves. Other items in the collection include
antislavery pamphlets, old newspapers, first editions of novels by William Wells Brown, and
selections from Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Phyllis Wheatley, Charles W. Chestnutt, W. E. B. Du
Bois, and Countee Cullen. In addition, representative works of many southern writers of the
last century are also among the books in this collection.
