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• Slavery -- United States -- Poetry
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• Slavery -- United States -- Speeches in Congress
• African Americans -- Colonization
• Antislavery movements -- United States
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive slaves -- United States
• Missouri compromise
• Slave insurrections -- United States
• Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
• Slavery -- Alabama
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• Slavery -- Delaware
• Slavery -- Georgia
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• Slavery -- Louisiana
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• Slavery -- New York (State)
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• Slavery -- Controversial literature -- United States
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• Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States

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• Slavery in the United States

• An Address Delivered in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, July 4, 1838, by William Lloyd Garrison (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, to the People of the United States (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Address to Christians of All Denominations on the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership (Philadelphia: S. C. Atkinson, 1831), by Evan Lewis (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• An Address to the Inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina (Philadelphia: Kimber, Conrad and Co., 1805), by Ann Alexander (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon (page images at LOC)
• An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York, by Jupiter Hammon, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• An Address to the Quarterly, Monthly and Preparative Meetings, and the Members Thereof, Composing the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia, by the Committee Appointed at the Late Yearly Meeting to Have Charge of the Subject of Slavery (Philadelphia: Printed by John Richard, 1839), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
• American Scenes and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States (1849), by Ebenezer Davies (Gutenberg text)
• Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836), by Angelina Emily Grimké (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
• A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon, Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York (Jersey City: W. W. & L. A. Pratt, Printers, Sentinel Buildings, 1853), by Levin Tilmon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Brotherhood of Thieves: or, A True Picture of the American Church and Clergy: A Letter to Nathaniel Barney, of Nantucket, by Stephen S. Foster (HTML with commentary at tripod.com)
• Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, by George Fitzhugh (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Christian Martyrs: or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government, by Jacob Gilbert Forman (page images at MOA)
• The Church and Slavery, by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
• A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument, by George Bourne (HTML at TEI at UNC)
• A Constitutional Manual for the National American Party: In Which is Examined the Question of Negro Slavery in Connexion with the Constitution of the United States (Providence: A. C. Green and Brother, 1856), by Thomas R. Hazard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• Democracy Versus Know-Nothingism and Republicanism: Letter from Dunne, to Jones and Given (second edition, c1858), by Henry C. Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse, Delivered at the African Meeting-House, July 14, 1808, in Grateful Celebration of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by Jedidiah Morse, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Effect of Slavery on the American People, by Theodore Parker (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations Of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States (1857), by John Benwell (Gutenberg text)
• An Essay on Liberty and Slavery, by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at MOA)
• An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of American Females (second edition, 1837), by Catharine Esther Beecher (HTML at Virginia)
• Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• The Fugitive Slave Bill: or, God's Laws Paramount to the Laws of Men, by Nathaniel Colver (page images at MOA)
• The Future of the Colored Race in America, by William Aikman
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• Gerrit Smith to the Rank and File of the Democratic Party (1864), by Gerrit Smith (page images at LOC)
• The Golden Hour, by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at MOA)
• The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom, by Abel C. Thomas, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History, by John Alexander Logan (Gutenberg text)
• "How Can I Help Abolish Slavery?" or, Counsels to the Newly Converted (1855), by Maria Weston Chapman (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States (New York: Columbia University, 1913), by Almon Wheeler Lauber (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States, by J. D. B. De Bow (page images at MOA)
• The Iniquity: A Sermon in the First Church, Dorchester, on Sunday Dec. 11, 1859, by Nathaniel Hall (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States (1835), by E. S. Abdy (illustrated HTML at jmisc.net)
• The Laws of Human Progress and Modern Reforms, by Orville Dewey (page images at MOA)
• Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, As Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States, by William Andrew Smith (page images at MOA)
• Letter to the Hon. Wm. C. Rives of Virginia, on Slavery and the Union, by Nathan Appleton (page images at MOA)
• Letters From the United States, Cuba and Canada (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856), by Amelia M. Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters on American Slavery (Boston: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860), contrib. by Victor Hugo, Alexis de Tocqueville, Emile de Girardin, H. Carnot, Hippolyte Passy, Giuseppe Mazzini, Nikolai Turgenev, Alexander von Humboldt, Oscar Lafayette, and Edward Baines (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest: Toppan Prize Essay of 1896 (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1897), by Theodore Clarke Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Liberty and Union! Speeches Delivered at the Eighteenth Ward Republican Festival, in Commemoration of the birth of Washington (New York: Baker and Godwin, 1860), by Eighteenth Ward Republican Association (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Liberty Cap (Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1846), by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• Life of Isaac Mason As a Slave, by Isaac Mason (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, by Annie L. Burton
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at nypl.org
• The Mission of Free Labor on the American Continent, by William Alanson Howard (page images at MOA)
• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)
• National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War, by Gilbert Haven (page images at MOA)
• The Negro in Our History (c1922), by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Negro Slavery Unjustifiable, by Alexander McLeod (page images at MOA)
• Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race, The Latter Its Normal Condition (third edition; New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1863), by John H. Van Evrie (page images at Google; US access only)
• No-History Versus No-War: or, The Great Tootle Rebellion Exposed (New York: E. R. McCall, 1886), by Eli Robinson McCall (page images at HathiTrust)
• No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts (1860), by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles C. Burleigh (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and Their Descendants, and on the Use of the Produce of Their Labour (New York: S. Wood, 1814), by Elias Hicks (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The Old South: A Monograph, by H. M. Hamill (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Delivered in the African Church in the City of New-York, January 1, 1808, by Peter Williams, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• Pinda: A True Tale (1840), by Maria Weston Chapman (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The Planter: or, Thirteen Years in the South, by David Brown
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• The Political Economy of Slavery: or, The Institution Considered in Regard to its Influence on Public Wealth and the General Welfare (Washington: Printed by L. Towers, ca. 1857), by Edmund Ruffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Political Text-Book for 1860, by Horace Greeley and John F. Cleveland (page images at MOA)
• The Position and Course of the South, by William Henry Trescot (page images at MOA)
• "Posting the Books Between the North and the South": Speech of Hon. John J. Perry, of Maine (1860), by John J. Perry (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Principles and Measures of True Democracy: The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, Held at Cincinnati, June 11, 1845, to the People of the United States; Also, the Letter of Elihu Burritt to the Convention (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Put Up Thy Sword: A Discourse Delivered Before Theodore Parker's Society, at the Music Hall, Boston, Sunday, March 11, 1860, by William Henry Furness (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Radicalism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social Life: Four Papers from The Boston Courier for 1858, by George Lunt (page images at MOA)
• The Red Flag in John Bull's Eyes, by Frances Power Cobbe (HTML at Indiana)
• Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, November 3, 1863, To Take Into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the South (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1863), by Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association
  • page images at MOA
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Republican Scrap Book (page images at MOA)
• Review of Webster's Speech on Slavery, by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
• The Right of American Slavery, by T. W. Hoit (page images at MOA)
• Rights and Duties of the United States Relative to Slavery Under the Laws of War, by David Lee Child (page images at MOA)
• The Romance of the Civil War, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Elizabeth Stevens (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States, by Howell Cobb (page images at MOA)
• The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial (1700), by Samuel Sewall (PDF at unl.edu)
• A Sermon to the Medical Students (1849), by Lucretia Mott (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• The Sinfulness of Slaveholding in All Circumstances, Tested by Reason and Scripture (Detroit: Charles Willcox, 1846), by James Gillespie Birney (page images with commentary at Dickinson)
• The Slave Power, by Theodore Parker, ed. by James Kendall Hosmer (PDF and Word at eserver.org)
• The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished, by Henry Charles Carey (Gutenberg text)
• Slavery, by William Ellery Channing (HTML at edgenet.net)
• Slavery and the War: A Historical Essay, by Henry Darling (page images at MOA)
• Slavery in the United States of America, by Henry Sherman (page images at MOA)
• Slavery Ordained of God, by F. A. Ross (Gutenberg text)
• South and North: or, Impressions Received During a Trip to Cuba and the South, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
• Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law (1859), by John Hossack (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• The True Issue, and the Duty of the Whigs, by Joel Parker (page images at MOA)
• The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1860), by Lysander Spooner (HTML at lysanderspooner.org)
• The Uprising of a Great People: The United States in 1861; To Which is Added, A Word of Peace on the Difference Between England and the United States (new American edition from the author's revised edition, 1862), by Agénor Gasparin, trans. by Mary L. Booth (Gutenberg text)
• The Voice of Duty (1843), by Adin Ballou, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (first edition; Boston: Printed for the author, 1829), by David Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (third edition; Boston: Revised and published by D. Walker, 1830), by David Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Walker's Appeal, With a Brief Sketch of His Life by Henry Highland Garnet; And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (New York: Printed by J. H. Tobitt, 1848), by David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet (Gutenberg text)
• White Supremacy and Negro Subordination: or, Negroes a Subordinate Race, and (So-Called) Slavery its Normal Condition (second edition; New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1870), by John H. Van Evrie (page images at Google)

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