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• Christmas, and Poems on Slavery, for Christmas, 1843 (Cambridge, MA: Pub. by the author for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1843), by Thomas Hill (multiple formats at Google)
• Poems in Sunshine and Firelight (Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll and Co., 1866), by John James Piatt (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Poems on Slavery (London: Egertons, Murray, and Johnson, 1788), by Maria Falconar and Harriet Falconar (HTML at brycchancarey.com)
• Slavery: A Poem (London: T. Cadell, 1788), by Hannah More (HTML at brycchancarey.com)
• Slavery: A Poem, in Five Cantos; The Artisan; and Other Poems (London: James Martin, 1850), by Edmund H. White (multiple formats at Google)
• 1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (Burlington, NJ: Enterprise Print., 1870), by John Collins
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• "1970": A Vision of the Coming Age (Philadelphia, 1896), by John Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Struggles for Freedom: or, The Life of James Watkins, Formerly a Slave in Maryland, U. S.; in Which is Detailed a Graphic Account of His Extraordinary Escape from Slavery, Notices of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Sentiments of American Divines on the Subject of Slavery, etc., etc. (19th edition; Manchester, UK: Printed for J. Watkins by A. Heywood, 1860), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• These degenerate days (Geo. H. Ellis, 1887), by Minot J. Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Garland of freedom : a collection of poems, chiefly anti-slavery (W. and F. G. Cash ... William Tweedie ..., 1853), by Friend of the Negro and Wilson Armistead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christmas and poems on slavery for Christmas, 1843 (Published by the author for the Massachusetts anti-slavery fair, 1843), by Thomas Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bostan of Shaikh Sadi (Homee, Sorab & Co., 1889), by Sa'di (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maniacs; or, Fantasia of Bos Bibens, characteristic of some of the fanatics who are conspiring the ruin of their country at home ([Kingston, Jamaica], 1824), by West Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canti di Roma antica / e, Poesie sulla schiavitù e frammenti, di E.W. Longfellow ; tradotti in versi italiani da Louisa Grace Bartolini. (Le Monnier, 1869), by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Louisa Grace Bartolini, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quashy, or the coal-black maid; a tale (Printed for J. Ridgway, 1796), by Thomas Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery, a poem. (Printed for T. Cadell ..., 1788), by Hannah More (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barão normando. (Typographia Nacional, 1884), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Francisco Leite de Bittencourt Sampaio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on slavery. In a letter to a friend. (Boston: : Printed and sold by Edes and Gill in Queen-Street., 1767), by Nathaniel Appleton, Nathaniel Appleton, and James Grainger (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Slavery, a poem. / By Hannah More. ; [Four lines of verse from Thompson's Liberty] (New-York: : Printed by J. and A M'Lean, at Franklin's Head, no. 41, Hanover-Square., M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]), by Hannah More (HTML at Evans TCP)

• No Abolition of Slavery: Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem, by James Boswell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Come listen to my dity [sic] ye men of age to-day ([n.p., 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated (London: Thomas Ward and Co., 1840), by Juan Francisco Manzano, trans. by Richard Robert Madden (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of George M. Horton, the colored bard of North-Carolina (Printed by D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton and Dennis Heartt (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anti-Slavery Alphabet (Philadelphia: Printed for the Anti-Slavery Fair, 1847), by Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont, by John Pierpont (HTML at Michigan)
• Chivalry, Slavery, and Young America (New York: F. A. Brady, 1866), by John Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Pantheon, or The Age of Black (New York: Rollo, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Night of Freedom: An Appeal, in Verse, Against the Great Crime of Our Country, Human Bondage! (Boston: S. Chism, 1857), by William Wallace Hebbard (multiple formats at Google)
• The Slave-Mother (1855), by John Collins, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at Wayback Machine)
• Slavery: A Poem (Concord, NH: McFarland and Jenks, 1856) (multiple formats at Wayback Machine)
• The Social Conflict of Ages: A Rhyme for the Time (Salem, MA, 1857) (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thoughts on Slavery: A Poem (1854), by Lewis Stevens (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Sketches of Southern Life, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at Virginia)
• The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems (Charleston, SC: McCarter and Co., 1856), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Chivalry, slavery, and young America (Frederic A. Brady, publisher, No. 22 Ann Street, 1866), by John Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of color. To which is added, a selection of pieces in poetry. (Printed by order of the trustees of the residuary estate of Lindley Murray, 1839), by Abigail Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star of emancipation. (For the fair of the Massachusetts female emancipation society, 1841), by Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the free, and hymms of Christian freedom ... (I. Knapp, 1836), by Maria Weston Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on slavery. (J. Owen, 1842), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meliboeus-Hipponax, The Biglow papers (J. R. Osgood and co., 1872), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The betrothed. (J. A. Bancroft and co., 1867), by W. E. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems (Joseph Healy ;, 1838), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The harp of freedom. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan; [etc., etc.,], 1856), by George W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1885), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems after slavery, and others descriptive and patriotic (Pacific Coast Appeal Pub. Co., 1905), by Zachary Withers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Ticknor and Fields, 1862), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The betrothed, a nation's vow. (J.A. Bancroft and co., 1867), by W. E. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom's lyre: or, Psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, for the slave and his friends. (S. W. Benedict, 1840), by Edwin F. Hatfield and American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meliboeus - hipponax : the Biglow papers (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The envoy. From free hearts to the free. (Juvenile Emancipation Society, 1840), by Frances H. Green and R.I.) Juvenile Emancipation Society (Pawtucket (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs in the night. (Clapper's Steam Printing House, 1887), by Ben Roy Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prison bard: or, Poems on various subjects. (Printed by W. H. Burleigh, 1848), by George Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems (J. M. M'Kim;, 1841), by William Henry Burleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gospel of slavery: a primer of freedom. (T. W. Strong, 1864), by Abel C. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alcar, the captive Creole; a story of the South, in verse. (J.R. Dixon, 1857), by M. Roland Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on slavery. (J. Owen, 1842), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page images at HathiTrust)
• National lyrics. (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The overthrow of American slavery, containing descriptions of important events and sketches of some of the prominent actors. (Phillips & Hunt;, 1885), by William G. Queal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of color to which is added a selection of pieces in poetry (s.n.], 1826), by Abigail Mott and Mahlon Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers. (John Camden Hotten, 1865), by James Russell Lowell and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melibœus-Hipponax. The Biglow papers. Second series. (Ticknor & Fields, 1867), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discipline of earth and time for freedom and immortality. Four books of an unpublished poem. (Boston, 1854), by John Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dying Negro, a poem. (Printed for W. Flexney, 1775), by Thomas Day and John Bicknell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the free and hymns of Christian freedom (I. Knapp, 1836), by Maria Weston Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour. To which is added, a selection of pieces in poetry (M. Day, 1837), by Abigail Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wakefield Standley. A story of the flag. (Carroll Record, 1888), by Susan Godfred Hooker Whiteman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The burden of the South, in verse; or, Poems on slavery (E. Warner, 1864), by John Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nebraska : a poem, personal and political. (Boston : Published by John P. Jewett and Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1854., 1854), by George W. Bungay, Proctor Jewett, and Mass.) John P. Jewett and Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The devil in Dixie : a tale of the times : serio-comical, semi-historical, and quasi-diabolical ... (American News, 1865), by G. W. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Star of emancipation ... (For the fair of the Massachusetts female emancipation society, 1841), by Massachusetts female emancipation society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery poems of John Pierpont. (O. Johnson, 1843), by John Pierpont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The night of freedom: an appeal, in verse, against the great crime of our country, human bondage! (S. Chism, 1857), by William Wallace Hebbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the free, and hymns of Christian freedom ... (I. Knapp, 1836), by Maria Weston Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery; its origin, progress and effects. A poem (J. M. Hewes, 1856), by David Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery harp: a collection of songs for anti-slavery meetings. (B. Marsh, 1849), by William Wells Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1885), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stanzas to Queen Victoria and other poems (F.A. Brady, 1866), by John Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Hurst, 1890), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Slavery's council (Printed at the Daily Whig office, 1844), by James Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The betrothed. (J.A. Bancroft and co., 1867), by William E. Guthrie D'Arusmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue on slavery (Gazette books and job rooms, 1854), by Daniel Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vision of judgment; an allegorical satire. (The author, 1856), by G. B. Rodgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-slavery poems : songs of labor and reform (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1892), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems. (Hurst, 1885), by John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (AMS Press, 1969), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our flag : a poem in four cantos (Carleton, 1862), by T. H. Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verses for the times (Bela Marsh, 1854), by Bela Marsh and Wright & Hasty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meliboeus-Hipponax. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Ticknor and Fields, 1868), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Posthumous and other poems (M. W. Dodd, 1847), by Charlotte Elizabeth, Moses Woodruff Dodd, and Trow & Co Leavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (J. C. Hotten, 1859), by James Russell Lowell and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers. (Trübner & co., 1859), by James Russell Lowell and Thomas Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers. (Trübner & co., 1865), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stanzas to Queen Victoria, and other poems (F. A. Brady, 1866), by Sennoia Rubek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sentimental poems, in brief, expressive of the views held by some, relative to capital punishment, slavery, the providence of God, &c. (s.n.], 1846), by D. Upham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aldornere, and two other Pennsylvanian idylls; together with minor poems. (Boston, Index association, 1885), by Howard Worcester Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (George Routledge and Sons ;, 1880), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Not a man, and yet a man (Springfield, Ohio : Republic Print. Co., 1877., 1877), by Albery Allson Whitman and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour. (M. Day, 1837), by Abigail Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers. (J.R. Osgood, 1876), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery harp: a collection of songs for anti-slavery. (B. Marsh, 1854), by William Wells Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The songs of freedom. A collection of songs for anti-slavery meetings. (B. Thurston, 1855), by Henry Gloucester (page images at HathiTrust)
• America and her slave-system. (Published by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Ward, Lock, & Co., Warwick House, 1867), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prohibited song (Firth, Pond & Co., 1862), by John W. Hutchinson, E. L. Welling, Robert Boyd Yard, John Greenleaf Whittier, Pond & Co Firth, United States. Army of the Potomac, and Hutchinson Family (Singers) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery harp: a collection of songs for anti-slavery meetings. (Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1970), by William Wells Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Biglow papers (Trubner, 1859), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery harp: : a collection of songs for anti-slavery meetings. (Published by Bela Marsh, no. 25 Cornhill, 1848), by William Wells Brown, Abner Forbes, and Bela Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery harp : a collection of songs for anti-slavery meetings (B. Marsh, 1851), by William Wells Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melibœus-Hipponax. (Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song of iron and the song of slaves with other poems. (King & Baird, 1863), by Kane O'Donnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• National lyrics. (Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1866., 1866), by John Greenleaf Whittier and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-slavery poems : songs of labor and reform. (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888., 1888), by John Greenleaf Whittier and Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield Library Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biglow papers (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881), by James Russell Lowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anti-slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-slavery Meetings, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom, by Abel C. Thomas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poems on Slavery, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Biglow Papers, by James Russell Lowell, ed. by Thomas Hughes (Gutenberg ebook)

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