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• Plantation life before emancipation (Negro History Press, 1969), by R. Q. Mallard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Life among the lowly (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.O. Houghton & Company, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro life in the slave states of America (Clarke, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of a Slave: A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times, Hitherto Unwritten, From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress (Chicago: Wesley, Elmore and Benson, 1894) (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The planter's northern bride : a novel (A. Hart, 1854), by Caroline Lee Hentz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tiefer Süden : Roman (Bertelsmann-Lesering, 1900), by Gwen Bristow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The old plantation, and what I gathered there in an autumn month. (Harper & brothers, 1859), by James Hungerford (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The black gauntlet: a tale of plantation life in South Carolina (AMS Press, 1973), by Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore (2 volumes; J. H. Eastburn, 1836), by Richard Hildreth
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Volume II: HTML and TEI at UNC
• The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852), by Richard Hildreth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bond and Free: A Tale of the South (Indianapolis: C. B. Ingraham, 1882), by Grace Lintner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Eastover Court House : a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1901), by Henry Burnham Boone, Kenneth Brown, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aunt Dorothy; an old Virginia plantation story. (Books for Libraries Press, 1972), by Margaret Junkin Preston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes (Gutenberg text and Librivox Audio)

• A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War, by Parthenia Antoinette Hague (Gutenberg ebook)

• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839, by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (New York: Harper and brothers, 1863), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson (Macon, GA: Printed for the author, 1892), by Robert Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Hugh Davis and his Alabama plantation (Negro Universities Press, 1974), by Weymouth Tyree Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (Harper & Bros., 1863), by Fanny Kemble, Lyman Beecher Stowe, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscenes of Georgia. (J. M. Fitch, 1850), by Emily P. Burke, James Mason Fitch, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scraps of song and southern scenes; a collection of humorous and pathetic poems and descriptive sketches of plantation life in the backwoods of Georgia. (C. P. Byrd, 1889), by Montgomery M. Folsom (page images at HathiTrust)

• Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia (Baltimore: J. W. Woods, 1869), by Francis Frederick (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America (Grand Rapids, MI: West Michigan Printing Co., 1891), by Harry Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Derby and Miller;, 1853), by Solomon Northup and D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river, in Louisiana. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan;, 1854), by Solomon Northup and D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave : Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red river, in Louisiana. (Derby and Miller ;, 1853), by Solomon Northup and D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Auburn [New York] : Derby and Miller ; Buffalo [New York] : Derby, Orton and Mulligan ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Company, 47 Ludgate Hill, 1854., 1854), by Solomon Northup, Randall K. Burkett, Frederick M. Coffin, Nathaniel Orr, D. Wilson, Son & Co Sampson Low, Orton & Mulligan Derby, and Derby and Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana (Auburn : Derby and Miller ; Buffalo : Derby, Orton and Mulligan ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1853., 1853), by Solomon Northup, Carter Godwin Woodson, D. Wilson, and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849), by Josiah Henson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Ferry Hill Plantation (United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, 2007), by Max L. Grivno and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man (P. Anstadt & Sons, 1895), by Henry Clay Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James B. Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of a refugee slave (E. Anthony & Sons, printers, 67 Union Street., 1871), by Thomas H. Jones, Mass.) E. Anthony & Sons (New Bedford, and Taylor & Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes from the past (The author, 1921), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grandmother's recollection of Dixie (O.G. Dunn, printer, 1912), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• On the old plantation; reminiscences of his childhood (Band & White, 1916), by J. G. Clinkscales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of a South Carolina plantation during the war (Privately printed for my family and friends, 1912), by Elizabeth Allen Coxe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chronicles of Chicora Wood, by Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle (Gutenberg ebook)

• Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia: An Archeological and Historical Investigation of the Port Town for Stafford County and the Plantation of John Mercer, Including Data Supplied by Frank M. Setzler and Oscar H. Darter, by C. Malcolm Watkins (Gutenberg ebook)

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