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• The Emancipator (early anti-slavery newspaper; 1820), ed. by Elihu Embree (full serial archives)

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• Life of Rev. Thomas James, by Himself (Rochester, NY: Post Express Printing Co., 1886), by Thomas James (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross (New York: E. S. Arnold and Co., 1839), by Peter Wheeler and C. Edwards Lester (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man): Giving an Account of His Birth; The Period He Was Held in Slavery; His Release, and Removal to Canada, etc; Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad (Toronto: Smallwood; James Stephens, 1851), by Thomas Smallwood (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's; With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists (London: Samuel Maunder, 1831), by Ashton Warner and Susanna Moodie (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave (attributed to Matthews by Susanna Ashton; serialized in The Emancipator, 1838), ed. by Joshua Leavitt, contrib. by James Matthews (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman (New York: D. Fanshaw, 1828), by T. H. Gallaudet (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass: the colored orator. (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1895), by Frederic May Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Vignaud pamphlets : slavery and emancipation in the United States]. (s.n. ;$c1856-1865?], 1856), by Augustin Verot, John H. Van Evrie, Robert Augustus Toombs, A. S. Roane, Emile Montégut, G. de Félice, and Melvil Bloncourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opposition to slavery in Georgia prior to 1860 (Negro Universities Press, 1968), by Ruth Scarborough (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report presented to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society by its Board of Managers. (Negro Universities Press, 1843), by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Board of Managers and Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Granville Sharp, esq. (Printed for Henry Colburn, 1820), by Prince Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents sur la fondation de l'Oeuvre antiesclavagiste (Imprimerie Vve E. Belin et fils, 1889), by Charles Martial Allemand Lavigerie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (Boston : The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1835), by Boston Female Anti-slavery Society and Isaac Knapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Thomas Morris pioneer and long a legislator of Ohio, and U. S. senator from 1833 to 1839 (Printed by Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Overend, 1856), by Benjamin Franklin Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Wendell Phillips (Lee and Shepard, 1888), by George Lowell Austin and Wendell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings, on the formation of the New-York State Colonization Society ... (Printed by Websters and Skinners., 1829), by New-York State Colonization Society (Founded 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old anti-slavery days : proceedings of the commemorative meeting, held by The Danvers Historical Society, at the Town Hall, Danvers, April 26, 1893. (Danvers Mirror Print., 1893), by Danvers Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anti-slavery record. (Negro Universities Press, 1835), by American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Anthony Benezet. (Sherman & Co., 1867), by Roberts Vaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crisis in North America! slavery, war, balance of power, and Oregon ([s.n.], 1846), by Israel Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery question report of the New York General Association, 26th August, 1855. (s.n., 1855), by Congregational Churches in New York. General Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery crusade : a chronicle of the gathering storm (Yale University Press, 1920), by Jesse Macy (page images at HathiTrust)
• James G. Birney and his times; the genesis of the Republican Party with some account of abolition movements in the South before 1828. (Appleton, 1889), by William Birney (page images at HathiTrust)
• At a meeting of the representative committee, or meeting for sufferings, held 1st mo. 31, 1851, the committee on the subject of slavery produced an address to our members ... : extracted from the minutes ([The Society], 1851), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings and John J. White (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 Monthly offering (Anti-slavery Office, 1841), by John A. Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• American jubilee (New-York [N.Y.] : William Goodell, 1854-1855, 1854), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the people of North Carolina, on the evils of slavery. ([Greensborough, N.C.] : William Swaim printer, Greensborough, N.C., 1830., 1830), by Manumission Society of North Carolina, William Swaim, and Amos Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctor Dana's sermon on the African slave trade (Printed by T. and S. Green, 1791), by James Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to a friend on the ill-treatment of the people of color in the United States, on account of the color of their skin. ([New England Anti-Savery Tract Assn.], 1844), by Thomas Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journal of the American Baptist Anti-Slavery Convention. (Executive Committee of the Convention, 1841), by American Baptist Anti-Slavery Convention (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoria analytica a'cerca do commercio d'escravos e a'cerca dos malles da escravidão domestica (Typographia commercial fluminense, 1837), by Federico Leopoldo Cezar Burlamaqui, F. L. C. B., and Sociedade Defensora da Liberdade e Independencia Nacional (Brazil) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Doctor Dana's sermon on the African slave trade (Printed by T. and S. Green, 1791), by James Dana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, 1833-1874, by Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (page images at Pitt)

• De l'abolition de l'esclavage ancien en occident. Examen des causes principales qui ont concouru à l'extinction de l'esclavage ancien dans l'Europe occidentale et de l'époque à laquelle ce grand fait historique a été définitivement accompli. (J. Renouard et cie, 1840), by Edouard Biot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quaker idyls (H. Holt and Company, 1910), by Sarah M. H. Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Montesquieu et l'esclavage; étude sur les origines de l'opinion antiesclavagiste en France au XVIIIe siècle (Hachette et cie, 1911), by Russell Parsons Jameson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anti-slavery opinion in France during the second half of the eighteenth century (The Johns Hopkins press;, 1937), by Edward Derbyshire Seeber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (1864), by Ernest Charles Jones (page images at Cornell)
• The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (2 volume 1808 edition), by Thomas Clarkson
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (1839), by Thomas Clarkson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Narrative of the Life of James Watkins, Formerly a "Chattel" in Maryland, U. S.: Containing an Account of His Escape from Slavery, Together with an Appeal on Behalf of Three Millions of Such "Pieces of Property," Still Held Under the Standard of the Eagle (Bolton, UK: Kenyon and Abbatt, 1852), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Case of the Vigilante, a Ship Employed in The Slave-Trade; With Some Reflections on That Traffic (London: Printed by Harvey, Darton, and Co., 1823), by London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Granville Sharp and the freedom of slaves in England (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1928), by E. C. P. Lascelles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A side-light on Anglo American relations, 1839-1858, furnished by the correspondence of Lewis Tappan and others with the British and foreign anti-slavery society (The Association for the study of Negro life and history, incorporated, 1927), by Lewis Tappan, Frank J. Klingberg, and Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anti-slavery reporter. (Printed for the London Society for the Mitigration and Abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions, 1825), by Zachary Macaulay and Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Granville Sharp, to which is added Sharp's Law of passive obedience, and an extract from his Law of retribution. (American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836), by Charles Stuart and Granville Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The anti-slavery movement in England; a study in English humanitarianism (Yale university press;, 1926), by Frank Joseph Klingnberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter to William Wilberforce ... containing remarks on the reports of the Sierra Leone company, and African institution: with hints respecting the means by which an universal abolition of the slave trade might be carried into effect. (Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815), by Robert Thorpe and William Wilberforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from Legion to His Grace the Duke of Richmond, &c., &c., &c., chairman of the Slavery Committee of the House of Lords : containing an exposure of the character of the evidence on the colonial side, produced before the Committee. (S. Bagster, 1832), by Legion and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Committee on Colonial Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slavery of the British West India colonies delineated, as it exists both in law and practice, and compared with the slavery of other countries, ancient and modern. (J. Butterworth and Son, 1824), by James Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and anti-slavery; a history of the great struggle in both hemispheres; with a view of the slavery question in the United States. (W. Goodell, 1855), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Granville Sharp, to which is added Sharp's Law of passive obedience, and an extract from his "Law of retribution" (American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836), by Charles Stuart, Patrick H. Reason, Granville Sharp, and American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Granville Sharp, esq. (Henry Colburn, 1828), by Prince Hoare (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire : in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies (For J. Hatchard and Son, 1823), by William Wilberforce and J. Hatchard and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Substance of the debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th May, 1823, on a motion for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions : with a preface and appendixes, containing the facts and reasonings illustrative of colonial bondage. (Printed for the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, and sold by J. Hatchard and Son ..., 1823), by Great Britain. Parliament (1823). House of Commons and Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of the report of a Committee of the House of commons on the extinction of slavery. (Printed for the Society for the abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions, 1833), by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the abolition of Negro slavery, and the means of practically effecting it. (J. Ridgway, 1823), by J. F. Barham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the committee of the Society for the Mitigation and gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions. (The Society, 1824), by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to the Right Hon. William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, &c., &c. on the present condition of the slaves, and the means best adapted to promote the mitigation and final extinction of slavery in the British colonies (Printed by Harris and Co.; sold by W. Grapel and G. & J. Robinson; [etc., etc.], 1824), by John Ashton Yates (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical sketch of Thomas Clarkson, M.A. : with occasional brief strictures on the misrepresentations of him contained in the life of William Wilberforce ; and a concise historical outline of the abolition of slavery (J. Rickerby, 1839), by Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Declaration of the objects. (Printed by J. Blackwell, 1836), by Newcastle upon Tyne Society for Abolishing Slavery all over the World (page images at HathiTrust)
• Substance of the debate in the House of Commons on the 15th May, 1823, on a motion for the mitigation and gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British dominions. : With a pref. and appendixes containing facts and reasonings illustrative of colonial bondage. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Great Britain. Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anti-slavery reporter and aborigines' friend (Nendeln/Liechtenstein, 1840), by Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights (Great Britain), London British and Foreign Anti-slavery society, Anti-slavery Society (Great Britain), and British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro apprenticeship in the British colonies. (Pub. at the Office of the Anti-slavery society ...and sold also by Hatchard and son, 1823), by Anti-slavery Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Abolitionist.. (S. Bagster, Jun., 1834), by British and Foreign Society for the Universal Abolition of Negro Slavery and Slave Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memoir of Granville Sharp : to which is added Sharp's "Law of passive obedience, " and an extract from his "Law of retribution." (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Charles Stuart and Granville Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro slavery, or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society, as it exists in the USA and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. (printed by Richard Taylor, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on colonial slavery. (R. Clay, 1826), by John Nelson Goulty and Richard Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter on the abolition of the slave trade ; addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire (Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807), by William Wilberforce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bechuana troubles : a story of pledge-breaking, rebel-making and slave-making in a British colony (P. S. King, 1898), by H. R. Fox Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence respecting operations against slave-traders in British Central Africa (Harrison and Sons, 1896), by Central Great Britain. Colonial Office. Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers relative to the suppression of slave-raiding in British Central Africa (Harrison and Sons, 1893), by Central Great Britain. Colonial Office. Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A report on slavery and the slave trade in Zanzibar, Pemba, and the mainland of the British Protectorates of East Africa ([s.n.], 1895), by Donald Mackenzie and British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in British Protectorates : memorials of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and other documents connected with slavery and the slave-trade in the Sultanate of Zanzibar... ([s.n.], 1897), by British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is Great Britain doing to suppress slavery and the slave-trade? (London, 1894), by Charles H. Allen and British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of the proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention : called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, held in London on the 12th of June, 1840, and continued by adjournments to the 23rd of the same month. (Printed by Johnston & Barrett ..., 1840), by England) General Anti-slavery Convention (1st : 1840 : London and British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A farewel [sic] address to the Rev. Mr. James Ramsay from James Tobin, Esq to which is added, a letter from the Society for Propagating the Gospel to Mr. Anthony Benezet of Philadelphia, and also a translation of the French King's declaration relating to the situation of Negroes, &c. in his European dominions. (Printed for G. and T. Wilkie, 1788), by James Tobin, Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, France, and Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Anti-slavery pamphlets]. ([various publishers], 1821), by William Turpin, Constantine Henry Phipps Normanby, Nathaniel S. Prime, Elizur Wright, Z. Kingsley, William Whipper, Edwin P. Atlee, American Anti-Slavery Society, London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings, and Pa.) Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Colour (3rd : 1833 : Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire, by William Wilberforce (Gutenberg ebook)

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