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• Slaves -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
• Bibb, Henry, 1815-
• Burton, Annie L., 1858?-
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
• Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-
• Holsey, Lucius Henry
• Hughes, Louis, 1832-
• Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
• Maddison, Reuben
• Mason, Isaac, 1822-
• Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913
• Voorhis, Robert, 1769 or 1770-

• African American slaves
• Afro-American slaves
• Slaves, African American

• The Negro Christianized: An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• 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)

• Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D. (Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Lucius Henry Holsey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, by Elizabeth Keckley
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at nypl.org
  • page images at MOA
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William Cooper Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Harriet, The Moses of Her People (second edition, 1886), by Sarah H. Bradford (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • HTML at nypl.org
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
  • volume I: HTML and TEI and UNC
  • volume II: HTML and TEI and UNC
• The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Letters from the Slave States, by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML at TEI at UNC)
• Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South (Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894), by Sarah J. W. Early (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself, by Henry Bibb (HTML at Virginia)
• Reuben Maddison: A True Story (Birmingham, England: B. Hudson, 1835) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text

• English Serfdom and American Slavery (New York: H. Long and Brother, 1854), by Lucien Bonaparte Chase
  • multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
• Hatchie, the Guardian Slave: or, The Heiress of Bellevue (1853), by Warren T. Ashton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)

• Slavery Era Insurance Registry, by California Department of Insurance (HTML and PDF at insurance.ca.gov)

• The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
• American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, ed. by Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Emily Grimké, and Sarah Moore Grimké (HTML with commentary at tripod.com)
• The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text (unillustrated)
• The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, by Octavia V. Rogers Albert (HTML at nypl.org)
• The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Jewett, 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • simpler HTML at Virginia
• The Planter: or, Thirteen Years in the South, by David Brown
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• Tupelo, by John H. Aughey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South: Illustrated From the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, by Fanny Kemble, contrib. by John Henry Hopkins and George W. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life, by Lydia Maria Child
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• Massachusetts in Mourning, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• The New Crime Against Humanity, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
• 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)
• Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail, by Daniel Drayton
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman, by Jermain Wesley Loguen (page images at MOA)
• A Short History and Description of the Ojibbeway Indians Now on a Visit to England: With Correct Likenesses, Engraved From Daguerreotype Plates, Taken By M. Claudet (1844), by Charles Stuart, illust. by Claudet. M. (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
• Stories of the Underground Railroad (1941), by Anna L. Curtis, illust. by William Brooks (multiple formats at shockfamily.net)

• Immediate Emancipation in Maryland: Proceedings of the Union State Central Committee, at a Meeting Held in Temperance Temple, Baltimore, Wednesday, December 16, 1863 (Baltimore: Bull and Tuttle, 1863), by Republican Party (Md.) State Central Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (searchable page images at Pitt)
• A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, Without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (1825), by Benjamin Lundy (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• War and Emancipation, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• The War and Slavery: or, Victory Only Through Emancipation (page images at MOA)

• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James Battle Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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