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• Fugitive slaves -- United States
• Slaves -- United States -- Biography
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• Fugitive slaves -- Biography
• United States -- Biography

• Fugitive slaves -- Connecticut -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Delaware -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Kentucky -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Maryland -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Mississippi -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Missouri -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- North Carolina -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Vermont -- Biography
• Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- Biography
• Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Biography

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • 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)

• 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 Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

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

• Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life, by Lydia Maria Child
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• Massachusetts in Mourning, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
• The New Crime Against Humanity, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
• No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts (1860), by Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Charles C. Burleigh (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)
• 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
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman, by Jermain Wesley Loguen (page images at MOA)
• 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 Claudet. M. (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Stories of the Underground Railroad (1941), by Anna L. Curtis, illust. by William Brooks (multiple formats at shockfamily.net)

• Jamie Parker, the Fugitive (Hartford: Brockett, Fuller and Co., 1851), by Emily Catharine Pierson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Martyrs and the Fugitive: or, A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son, by S. H. Platt (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)
• Narrative of Facts in the Case of Passmore Williamson (page images at MOA)

• 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 Henry Box Brown, by Henry Box Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biography of an American Bondman, ed. by Josephine Brown (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave (1849 UK edition), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

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

• Frederick Douglass (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• 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

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