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• Mars, James, 1790-
• Smith, James L. (James Lindsay)

• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1864), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (with an appendix summarizing Mars's life after liberation; Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1864), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (with an appendix summarizing Mars's life after liberation; Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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• Report of the Commissioners, Minutes of The Evidence, and Appendix, with General Index of Minutes of Evidence and Appendix (London: G. E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1876), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Including His Escape and Struggle for Liberty, of Charles A. Garlick, Born a Slave in Old Virginia, Who Secured His Freedom by Running Away from His Master's Farm in 1843 (Jefferson, OH: J. A. Howells and Co., 1902), by Charles A. Garlick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary 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)
• The History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape, Written by Himself (Worcester, MA: John Thompson, 1856), by John Thompson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (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)

• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)

• Fugitives of the Pearl (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1930), by John H. Paynter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bond and Free: A True Tale of Slave Times (Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1886), by Jas. H. W. Howard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen From Africa and Sold Into Slavery. Related by Themselves. (Manchester England: Wm. Irwin; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Yamboo: or, the North American Slave (3 volumes; London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1812), by Author of The Bravo of Bohemia (PDF at Chawton House Library)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
• Cudjo's Cave (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1864), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oheim Tom's Hütte: oder, Das Leven bei den Niedrigen (Uncle Tom's Cabin in German; Boston: J. P. Jewett und Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, und Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Hugo Rudolph Hutten
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Watch and Wait: or, The Young Fugitives (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, c1853), contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Kentucky Jurisprudence: A History of the Trial of Miss Delia A. Webster, at Lexington, Kentucky, Dec'r 17-21, 1844, Before the Hon. Richard Buckner, on a Charge of Aiding Slaves to Escape From That Commonwealth; With Miscellaneous Remarks, Including Her Views on American Slavery (Vergennes, VT: E. W. Blaisdell, 1845), by Delia Ann Webster
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford: Park Pub. Co., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Boston: De Wolfe and Fiske Co., c1892), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: A Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Pub. Co., 1873), by Ellwood Griest (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)

• Fugitive Slaves (1619-1865) (Publications of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, Fay House Monographs #3; c1891), by Marion Gleason McDougall, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart (Gutenberg text)
• No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts (Anti-Slavery Tracts new series #13; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860.), by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles C. Burleigh (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
• Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, at January ,term, 1842, In Which It Was Decided That All the Laws of the Several States Relative to Fugitive Slaves Are Unconstitutional and Void, and That Congress Have the Exclusive Power of Legislation on the Subject of Fugitive Slaves Escaping Into Other States (Philadelphia: L. Johnson, 1842), ed. by Richard Peters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories of the Underground Railroad (1941), by Anna L. Curtis, illust. by William Brooks (multiple formats at shockfamily.net)
• Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life, by Lydia Maria Child
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: A Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Pub. Co., 1873), by Ellwood Griest (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Massachusetts in Mourning, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• The New Crime Against Humanity, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
• 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
• 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 M. Claudet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad: Comprising Many Thrilling Incidents of the Escape of Fugitives From Slavery, and the Perils of Those Who Aided Them (Fredonia, NY: W. McKinstry and Son, 1879), by Eber M. Pettit, contrib. by Willard McKinstry
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Vermont's Anti-Slavery and Underground Railroad Record (Columbus, OH: Spahr and Glenn Co., 1937), by Wilbur Henry Siebert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to Hon. Reverdy Johnson, on the Proceedings at the Meeting, Held at Maryland Institute, January 10th, 1861 (Baltimore: Murphy and Co., printers, 1861), by John C. Le Grand
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
• 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)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at HathiTrust
• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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