Fugitive slaves -- Southern States -- Biography

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• Fugitive slaves -- Southern States
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• Fugitive slaves -- Biography
• Southern States -- Biography

• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work (J. Nichols and Co., c. 1901), by Booker T. Washington (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States: From Interviews with Former Slaves: Oklahoma Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (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)
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West, by Austin Steward (Gutenberg ebook)

• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon, Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York (Jersey City: W. W. & L. A. Pratt, Printers, Sentinel Buildings, 1853), by Levin Tilmon (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

• Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America (Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845), by Lewis Garrard Clarke (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)
• 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
• Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper (1832), by Isaac T. Hopper (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biography of a Slave: Being The Experiences Of Rev. Charles Thompson, A Preacher Of The United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South, Together With Startling Occurrences Incidental To Slave Life (1875), by Charles Thompson
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Published by Bela Marsh, 1848), by Henry Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage--Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery-- Incidents During the War--Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, by Mattie J. Jackson and Lucy S. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom, by Lucy A. Delaney (Gutenberg ebook)

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom, by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML at nypl.org
  • HTML at UNC

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: Published by H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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
• The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fugitive Blacksmith: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States, by James W. C. Pennington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848, by J. D. Green (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Lost Family Found: An Authentic Narrative of Cyrus Branch and His Family, Alias John White (1869), by E. M. W. (Elizabeth Merwin Wickham) (HTML and TEI an UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, by Henry Box Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, by Mary Prince (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
• 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)
• The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, by Mary Prince (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton, 1905), by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Robert E. Lee, William P. Trent. (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., [c1899]), by William Peterfield Trent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fighting by southern federals, in which the author places the numerical strength of the armies that fought for the Confederacy at approximately 1,000,000 men, and shows that 296,579 white soldiers living in the South, and 137,676 colored soldiers, and approximately 200,000 men living in the North that were born in the South, making 634,255 southern soldiers, fought for the preservation of the Union. By Charles C. Anderson. (New York, The Neale publishing company, 1912), by Charles Carter Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories : a record of personal experience and adventure during four years of war / by Fannie A. Beers. ([Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books], 1985), by Fannie A. Beers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Library of southern literature; compiled under the direct supervision of southern men of letters. Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, editors in chief; Charles William Kent, literary editor. (Atlanta, Ga., The Martin & Hoyt Company, [1909-22]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War, by Fannie A. Beers (Gutenberg ebook)

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