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• Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, a Native of Central Africa (Aberdeen, Scotland: Published for the author, 1846), by Selim Aga (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave. (Published by Anti-Slavery Office, No. 25 Cornhill, 1845), by Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and William Lloyd Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Josiah Henson, formerly a slave, now an inhabitant of Canada (Boston : Arthur D. Phelps, 1849., 1849), by Josiah Henson and Samuel Atkins Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truth is stranger than fiction. (J.P. Jewett;, 1858), by Josiah Henson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cowles & Company, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, and Mass.) John P. Jewett and Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a refugee slave (E. Anthony & Sons, printers, 67 Union Street., 1871), by Thomas H. Jones, Mass.) E. Anthony & Sons (New Bedford, and Taylor & Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge. (Printed by B.T. Albro, 1843), by Frances H. Green, Elleanor Eldridge, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experience of Thomas H. Jones : who was a slave for forty-three years (1862), by Thomas H. Jones, Randall K. Burkett, Bazin and Chandler, and Taylor & Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• On cover: Aunt Betty's story (Newberry Library, 1889), by Bethany Veney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of Frederick Douglass : his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time, including his connection with the anti-slavery movement ... (Hartford, Conn. : Park Pub. Co. ; Cleveland, Ohio : Geo. M. Rewell & Co. ; Chicago, Ill. : J.S. Goodman & Co. ; St. Louis, Mo. : Sun Pub. Co. ; San Francisco, Cal : Phillips & Hunt, 1882., 1882), by Frederick Douglass, Randall K. Burkett, and George L. Ruffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authentic narrative of James Williams, an American slave (New York : American Anti-Slavery Society ; Boston : Isaac Knapp, 1838., 1838), by James Williams, Thomas Moore, Patrick Henry Reason, R. Cooke, Isaac Knapp, John Greenleaf Whittier, and American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Auburn [New York] : Derby and Miller ; Buffalo [New York] : Derby, Orton and Mulligan ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Company, 47 Ludgate Hill, 1854., 1854), by Solomon Northup, Randall K. Burkett, Frederick M. Coffin, Nathaniel Orr, D. Wilson, Son & Co Sampson Low, Orton & Mulligan Derby, and Derby and Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave : the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841, sold into slavery, and after a twelve years' bondage, reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana (Philadelphia : Keystone Pub. Co., [189-?], in the 1890s), by Solomon Northup and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of James Mars, a slave born and sold in Connecticut (Hartford, Conn. : Press of Case, Lockwood & Co., 1869., 1869), by James Mars, Randall K. Burkett, John Todd, and Lockwood Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of James Mars, a slave born and sold in Connecticut (Hartford : Press of Case, Lockwood & Co., 1874., 1874), by James Mars, Randall K. Burkett, John Todd, and Lockwood Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Yopp, "10-Cent Bill" (Confederate Soldiers Home, 1920), by R. de T. Lawrence and Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia (page images at HathiTrust)
• A slave's adventures toward freedom : not fiction, but the true story of a struggle ([publisher not identified], 1918), by Peter Bruner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silvia Dubois, (now 116 yers old.) : A biografy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gand her fredom. (C.W. Larison, publisher, 1883), by Cornelius Wilson Larison, Silvia Dubois, and Crosscup & West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Frederick Douglass (Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, no. 25 Cornhill., 1848), by Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, and William Lloyd Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and sufferings of Leonard Black, a fugitive from slavery. (Press of Benjamin Lindsey, 1847), by Leonard Black and Benjamin Lindsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Frederick Douglass (Webb and Chapman, Gt. Brunswick-street, 1846), by Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Webb and Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life of Moses Grandy, formerly a slave in the United States of America. (Oliver Johnson, 25 Cornhill, 1844), by Moses Grandy, Oliver Johnson, and George Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gustavus Vassa (Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, no. 261 Pearl-street. R. & G.S. Wood, printers, 1829), by Olaudah Equiano, Alexander Anderson, Abigail Mott, R. & G.S. Wood (Firm), and Samuel Wood & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Olaudah Equiano (Printed by and for W. Cock; and sold by his agents throughout the kingdom, 1815), by Olaudah Equiano, Charles F. Heartman, W. Cock, and Trathan Penaluna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Account of James Albert, &c. ([Glasgow?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?], 1785), by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (Auburn : Derby and Miller ; Buffalo : Derby, Orton and Mulligan ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1853., 1853), by Solomon Northup, Carter Godwin Woodson, D. Wilson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roper's escape from slavery (Harvey and Darton, 55, Gracechurch Street. To be had also of G. Wightman, 24, Paternoster Row; William Ball, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row; and at the Anti-Slavery Office, 18, Aldermanbury, 1839), by Moses Roper, John Cochran, Thomas Price, Johnston & Barrett, and England) Harvey & Darton (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and times of Fred'k Douglass (Hartford, Conn. : Park Publishing Co., 1881., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, Edward W. Kinsley, Augustus Robin, George L. Ruffin, and Park Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G.W. Offley, a colored man, local preacher and missionary, : who lived twenty-seven years at the South and twenty-three at the North; who never went to school a day in his life, and only commenced to learn his letters when nineteen years and eight months old; the emancipation of his mother and her three children; how he learned to read while living in a slave state, and supported himself from the time he was nine years old until he was twenty-one. ([publisher not identified], 1859), by G. W. Offley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Charles Freeman. (So named at the first meeting and private exhibition of the African and American Slave Panorama, April 1850.) (Sold at the Cosmorama, 209, Regent Street, and to be had of all booksellers, price 2d. Also, Part I. Descriptive Catalogue of the Panorama, price 2d, 1850), by London Cosmorama (Regent Street (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828. With a portrait. ; [Eight lines of quotations]. (Boston: : Printed for the author., 1850., 1850), by Sojourner Truth, Theodore Dwight Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Olive Gilbert, and J.B. Yerrinton and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 3, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume X, Missouri Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living, by Peter Wheeler and C. Edwards Lester (Gutenberg ebook)

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