Antislavery movements -- United States -- History

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• The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm, by Jesse Macy (Gutenberg text)
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (London: Partridge & Oakey, 1854), ed. by H. G. Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)

• Frederick Douglass (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Half a Century, by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sanchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Anti-Slavery History of the John Brown Year (originally published 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England (London: John Snow, 35 Paternoster Row, 1855), by Samuel Ringgold Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autographs for Freedom (second series; Auburn: Alden, Beardsley and Co.; Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley and Co., 1854), ed. by Julia Griffiths (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Captains Drayton and Sayres: or, The Way in Which Americans are Treated, for Aiding the Cause of Liberty at Home (1848), ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• A History of the Amistad Captives (New Haven: E. L. and J. W. Barber, 1840), ed. by John Warner Barber (illustrated HTML at UNC)
• Letters of Lydia Maria Child, With a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Harriet Winslow Sewall, contrib. by John Greenleaf Whittier and Wendell Phillips (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Martyr Age of the United States (Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co. [etc.]; New York: J.S. Taylor, 1839), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• An Oration, Delivered on January 1, 1823 in Bethel Church, On the Abolition of the Slave Trade, by Jeremiah Gloucester (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• Pinda: A True Tale (1840), by Maria Weston Chapman (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• 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)
• 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)
• Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston, by Maria W. Stewart (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman, by Jermain Wesley Loguen (page images at MOA)
• Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict, by Samuel J. May (page images at MOA)
• Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
• Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Labour Produce, by Elihu Burritt (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)
• Oliver Dyer's Phonographic Report of the Proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9th and 10th, 1848, by Free Soil Party National Convention, contrib. by Oliver Dyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Chicago

• All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates (1737), by Benjamin Lay, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)

• The Anti-Slavery Examiner (full serial archives)

• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)

• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (page images at MOA)
• The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)

• Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life, Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855), by Matilda G. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• African Slavery in America (1856), by Charles Jared Ingersoll (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Black Experience in America, by Norman Coombs (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party, by Robert Lewis Dabney (page images at MOA)
• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (London: Partridge & Oakey, 1854), ed. by H. G. Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)
• Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (2006), by Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (PDF with commentary at Brown)
• A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (Gutenberg text)

• A Narrative of the Negro (1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at eserver.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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

• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England (London: John Snow, 35 Paternoster Row, 1855), by Samuel Ringgold Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Biography of an American Bondman, ed. by Josephine Brown (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML at TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, by James Williams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave (1849 UK edition), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, by William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Lehigh
  • Gutenberg text
• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

More items available under broader and related terms at left.