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library.forgemesh.io E300 — African American History & Autobiography Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io E300 — African American History & Autobiography Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books from the E300 curated shelf (African American history and autobiography), including titles like Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: E300 — 451 public-domain books including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books from the E300 curated shelf, including book titles and drill-down routes that allow the agent to fetch the full text of each individual title. No authentication or license is required.
Example use cases
Research on slave narratives
“Pull up the full list of public-domain slave narratives and African American autobiographies from that curated E300 shelf — I'm researching primary sources on the antebellum experience and want to see everything available.”
Classroom reading list generation
“I'm putting together a high school history course on African American history. Can you fetch me up to 50 public-domain books from the E300 shelf so I can pick titles for required reading?”
Quick discovery of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography
“I remember the E300 shelf has the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — can you list the first 20 books from that shelf so I can find it and get the drill-down link to the full text?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/e300When to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain books specifically from the African American history and autobiography category (Dewey/LC E300 range), rather than running a keyword search across the full corpus. It is ideal for browsing or presenting a shelf of titles rather than retrieving specific passages or searching by query text.
Side effects
- limit exceeds 50 — API may reject or cap silently
- limit is 0 or negative — may return empty list or error
- payment of 0.003 USDC not provided — x402 payment required error
- network timeout or server unavailability — no results returned
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave",
"author": "Douglass, Frederick",
"book_id": 23,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 50171
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "E300",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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