Image: Phillis Wheatley
This guide was created in order to help students in AAAD 130 (and others with an interest in the subject) locate materials relevant to the lives of people of African descent in the Americas prior to 1900.
This Library of Congress Classification Outline holds true for any library in the world using the LC system.
For example, American History will be classed in the E & F ranges; American ethnic history will be classed E184 - E185. American Literature will be classed in the PS range; American ethnic literature will be classed PS153.