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• Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #409, 4 volumes, 1930-1935), ed. by Elizabeth Donnan
  • Volume I (1441-1700): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I reprint (1441-1700): frame-dependent page images and HTML at inmotionaame.org
  • Volume II (The 18th Century): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II reprint (The 18th Century): frame-dependent page images and HTML at inmotionaame.org
  • Volume III (New England and the Middle Colonies): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III reprint (New England and the Middle Colonies): frame-dependent page images and HTML at inmotionaame.org
  • Volume IV (The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies): page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #409, 4 volumes, 1930-1935), ed. by Elizabeth Donnan
  • Volume I (1441-1700): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I reprint (1441-1700): frame-dependent page images and HTML at inmotionaame.org
  • Volume II (The 18th Century): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II reprint (The 18th Century): frame-dependent page images and HTML at inmotionaame.org
  • Volume III (New England and the Middle Colonies): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III reprint (New England and the Middle Colonies): frame-dependent page images and HTML at inmotionaame.org
  • Volume IV (The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Border Colonies and the Southern Colonies): page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the suppression of the African slave trade and negro colonization, 1854-72 (National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1961), by United States National Archives and Records Service and United States Department of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Emancipator (early anti-slavery newspaper; 1820), ed. by Elihu Embree (full serial archives)

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• The slave trade and Lord Palmerston's bill (s. n.], 1840), by Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo Sá da Bandeira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch einer Geschichte des Negersclavenhandels. (Bei Johann Jacob Gebauer, 1791), by Johann Jacob Sell (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Europe chatiée, et l'Afrique vengée, ou Raisons pour regarder les calamités du siècle comme des punitions infligées par la providence pour la traite des nègres. (Schulze et Dean, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La schiavitù e la tratta. Discorso letto l'8 nov. 1891 per l'inaugurazione dell' anno accademico nella r. università di Macerata. ([Macerata, 1891), by G. C. Buzzati (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Amistad Captives (New Haven: E. L. and J. W. Barber, 1840), ed. by John Warner Barber (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Sky and the Forest (c1948), by C. S. Forester (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• East African slave-trade. Talbot collection of British pamphlets (s.n., 1874), by John H. Kennaway (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Sailor Boy's Experience Aboard a Slave Ship (originally published 1867; reprinted (without apparent alterations) 1996), by Samuel Robinson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Egypt and Mohammed Ali : illustrative of the condition of his slaves and subjects, &c., &c. (Hamilton, Adams, 1841), by Richard Robert Madden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1847), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)

• Slavery and the slave trade in Africa (Harper & Bros., 1893), by Henry M. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Slave-catching in the Indian Ocean. A record of naval experiences. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by P. H. Colomb (page images at HathiTrust)

• King Peters of Sierra Leone (Religious Tract Society, 1920), by F. W. Butt-Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises (Imprimerie royale, 1841), by France. Ministère de la marine et des colonies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gustavus Vassa (Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, no. 261 Pearl-street. R. & G.S. Wood, printers, 1829), by Olaudah Equiano, Alexander Anderson, Abigail Mott, R. & G.S. Wood (Firm), and Samuel Wood & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Correspondence with the British Commissioners, at Sierra Leone, the Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam : relating to the slave trade, 1840 : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. (Printed by William Clowes, 1840), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence with the British Commissioners, at Sierra Leone, the Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam : relating to the slave trade, from January 1 to December 31, 1842, inclusive : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty. (Printed by William Clowes, 1843), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Le schiave orientali a Firenze nei secoli XIV e XV : saggio (A. Forni, 1976), by Agostino Zanelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• I Neri et la schiavitù nelle colonie spagnuole (G. Babèra, 1867), by Pietro Tettamanzi (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Slave Ship Wanderer (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1967), by Tom Henderson Wells (PDF at Georgia)
• The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (Harvard Historical Studies v1; New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896), by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg text)
• The American slave-trade; an account of its origin, growth, and suppression. (Kennikat Press, 1967), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American slave-trade : an account of its origin, growth and suppression (Corner House Publications, 1970), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American slave-trade : an account of its origin, growth and suppression. (Negro History Press, 1969), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American slave-trade : an account of its origin, growth and suppression (C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American slave-trade : an account of its origin, growth and suppression (Corner House Publishers, 1978), by John Randolph Spears (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical materials in the John F. Kennedy Library. (Waltham, Massachusetts : John F. Kennedy Library, 1975., 1975), by John F. Kennedy Library (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical material (Oxford university press, 1933), by Lucy Maynard Salmon, Adelaide Underhill, and Vassar college. Lucy Maynard Salmon fund for research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical evidence (Clarendon press, 1909), by H. B. George (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revista do Arquivo Municipal (Directoria do Protocolo e Arquivo da Prefeitura, 1934), by Arquivo Histórico de São Paulo, Brazil) Arquivo Histórico Municipal Washington Luis (São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil). Departamento do Patrimônio Histórico, São Paulo (Brazil). Divisão do Arquivo Histórico, Brazil) Sociedade de Etnografia e Folclore (São Paulo, Brazil) Clube de Etnografia (São Paulo, Brazil) Sociedade de Sociologia (São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil). Departamento de Cultura, São Paulo (Brazil). Departamento do Expediente e do Pessoal, São Paulo (Brazil). Directoria do Protocolo e Arquivo da Prefeitura, and São Paulo (Brazil). Arquivo Municipal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quellen und Forschungen aus dem Gebiete der Geschichte. (Schöningh, 1892), by Görres-Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• QFIAB <1997-2010> (W. de Gruyter., 1897), by Karl Schellhass, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, and Italy) Königlich Preussisches Historisches Institut (Rome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metodología y crítica históricas. (Sucesores de J. Gili, 1921), by Zacarías García Villada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of manuscripts in European languages belonging to the library of the India Office ... (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1916), by Great Britain. India Office. Library, E. H. Johnston, George Rusby Kaye, Robert Orme, Colin Mackenzie, Samuel Charles Hill, and Charles Otto Blagden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Facilities for research in history in Washington (P. Pearlman, 1935), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust)
• South American historical documents relating chiefly to the period of revolution from the collection of George M. Corbacho (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), by Jorge M. Corbacho and Hispanic Society of America (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society, and also of some printed papers. (W.E. Jones, 1901), by Virginia Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeareana illustrated : books, manuscripts, autograph letters, documents, & pictures. (G. Michelmore, 1926), by G. Michelmore & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Répertoire numérique de la série L (administration départementale de 1789 à l'an VIII). (Impr. du Courrier de l'Aisne, 1923), by Archives départementales de l'Aisne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Répertoire numérique de la série L, administration de 1789 à lán VIII (Impr. G. Chasseignac, 1911), by Archives départementales de la Charente (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventaire sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790. (Impr. Darantière, 1903), by Côte-d'Or (France). Archives départementales (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• État méthodique des documents antérieurs au mois de juin 1871 (Impr. Desfossés, 1925), by Archives du Département de la Seine et de la ville de Paris, Henri Lemoine, and Marius Barroux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• État sommaires des registres paroissiaux et d'état-civil [série E] conservés aux Archives départementales de la Somme, avec la liste des curés des paroisses antérieurement à 1793 (Impr. H. Lussaud, 1928), by Archives départementales de la Somme (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to the archives of the government of the United States in Washington (Kraus, 1965), by Claude Halstead Van Tyne and Waldo Gifford Leland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Da ben ying gong bao (Zhongguo guo min dang zhong yang wei yuan hui dang shi shi liao bian zuan wei yuan hui, 1922), by Lu hai jun da yuan shuai da ben ying (China) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tao chi xun bao. ([publisher not identified], 1926), by Taicang Liang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The CIA under Harry Truman (History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency ;, 1994), by United States Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Warner, and Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003 : anthology and annotated bibliography (History Division, U.S. Marine Corps, 2006), by Christopher M. Kennedy, Nathan S. Lowrey, Evelyn A. Englander, Wanda J. Renfrow, and United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• PDD (Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych, in the 20th century), by Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sevins Geschichtliches Quellenbuch; eine Sammlung von Quellenschriften für den Schulgebrauch. (R. Voigtländer, 1912), by Ludwig Sevin and Alfred Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Facilities for research in history in Washington. (Educational Research Bureau, 1952), by Lowell J. Ragatz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Archivist of the Hall of Records. ([publisher not identified], 1939), by Maryland. Hall of Records Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pièces intéressantes et peu connues, pour servir à l'histoire et à la littérature. (Chez Prault, 1785), by Pierre Antoine de La Place (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opisanīe zapisnykh knig i bumag starinnykh dvorkt︠s︡ovykh prikazov, 1584-1725. (Tipo-lit. S.P. Arkhipova, 1877), by Alekseĭ Egorovich Viktorov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ politika noveĭshego vremeni v dogovorakh, notakh i deklarat︠s︡ii︠a︡kh (Izdanie Litizdata N.K.I.D., 1925), by A. V. Sabanin and I︠U︡. V. Kli︠u︡chnikov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken. (M. Niemeyer, 1898), by Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom (page images at HathiTrust)
• La critica storica e le leggende nazionali; prolegomeni ad un corso libero di storia moderna nella R. Università di Padova (1899-1900) (Gallina, 1902), by Eugenio Musatti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Relação dos manuscriptos portuguezes e estrangeiros, de interesse para o Brazil, existentes no Museo britannico de Londres (Companhia typ. do Brazil, 1903), by Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, and British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Belgische Staatsarchief (Presses de Jules Leherte-Courtin, between 1000 and 1999), by Archives générales du Royaume (Belgium) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Podrobnyĭ katalog izdaniĭ Arkheograficheskoĭ kommissīi, vyshedshikh v svi︠e︡t s 1836 po 1918 god. (Jal-reprint, 1918), by Russia. Arkheograficheskai︠a︡ kommissīi︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to materials for American history in the libraries and archives of Paris (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1932), by Waldo Gifford Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Une nouvelle source de l'histoire. (Creation d'un dépot de cinematographie historique). (Paris, 1898), by Bolesław Matuszewski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical evidence (Clarendon Press ;, 1909), by Hereford B. George (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index saxonicus : an index to all the names of persons in Cartularium saxonicum, a collection of charters related to Anglo-Saxon history (Phillimore, 1899), by Walter de Gray Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Archivo do Distrito Federal; revista de documentos para a historia da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. anno. 1-4; jan. 1894-dez. 1897. (Archivo Municipal, 1894), by Alexandre José de Mello Moraes, Archivo do Districto Federal (Rio de Janeiro), and Archivo Municipal do Rio de Janeiro (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of books, pamphlets and newspapers printed in Drogehda, Co. Louth, in the eighteenth century (Wm. Tempest, 1904), by E. R. McC. Dix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daily review of the foreign press. (s.n., in the 1910s), by Great Britain War Office General Staff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Quellen und Forschungen aus dem Gebiete der Geschichte (Paderborn, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Regesta Habsburgica : Regesten der Grafen von Habsburg und der Herzoge von Österreich aus dem Hause Habsburg (Wagner, 1905), by Claudia Feller, Christian Lackner, Oswald Redlich, and Universität Wien. Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of Parliamentary reports, papers, &c., relating to miscellaneous subjects. (P.S. King & Son, 1899), by P. S. King & Son (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chinese historical sources ([New York, 1921), by Walter T. Swingle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions of the Ossianic Society : for the years 1853-1858. (Printed under the direction of the Council, 1854), by Ossianic Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the Shakespeare library formed by an English collector. To be sold February thirteenth and fourteenth ... (Anderson Galleries, 1918), by William Carew Hazlitt and Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Patrick Henry papers : being all his letters and papers during the Revolutionary War and up to the time of his death, preserved by his family : the original ivory miniature of Patrick Henry, taken from life in 1791 ... also for other accounts, important historical letters of generals in the Revolution and signers of the Declaration ... members of the Continental Congress ... presidents of the United States ... including fine letters of George and Martha Washington ... to be sold ... Dec. 20, 1910 ... at the book auction rooms of Samuel T. Freeman & Co. (s.n., 1910), by S. V. Henkels and Samuel T. Freeman & Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790. (Impr. administrative et librairie de N. Collin, 1873), by Archives départementales de la Meurthe, Emile Duvernoy, Henri Lepage, and Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790. Yonne. (Impr., librairie et lithographie de C. Gallot, 1868), by Archives départementales de l'Yonne, Francis Molard, and Mathieu Maximilien Quantin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biennial report of the Minnesota War Records Commission for the years ... (Minnesota War Records Commission., in the 1910s), by Minnesota War Records Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chartist circular. (New York : Greenwood Reprint Corp., 1968., 1839), by William Thomson and Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on Canadian archives and on the system of keeping public records (Printed by Maclean, Roger & Co., 1881), by Public Archives of Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and reports received by the Secretary of the Treasury from special agents, 1854-1861 (National Archives Records Service, General Services Administration, 1969), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the Department of State relating to internal affairs of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 1910-29 (National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1966), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of the Superintendent of Education for the state of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 (National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1969), by United States National Archives and Records Service and Freedmen United States. Bureau of Refugees (page images at HathiTrust)
• General orders, Department of the Cumberland (Pulaski, Tenn. : [The Dept.], [18 -], in the 19th century), by United States. Army. Department of the Cumberland and United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Podrobnai︠a︡ opisʹ 142 rukopisi︠a︡m XVII do nachala XIX stoli︠e︡tīĭ tretʹi︠a︡go (Losevskago) sobranīi︠a︡ "Linevskago arkhiva" (Kostromskai︠a︡ gubernskai︠a︡ uchenai︠a︡ arkhivnai︠a︡ kommissīi︠a︡, 1893), by N. N. Selifontov and Kostromskai︠a︡ uchenai︠a︡ arkhivnai︠a︡ komissii︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial records of Georgia ([publisher not identified], 1937), by Allen Daniel Candler, United States. Work Projects Administration, and Savannah Historical Research Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• John J. McGilvra papers, 1861-1903, at the University of Washington Libraries ([University of Washington Libraries], 1965), by University of Washington. Libraries, Kari Inglis, Ruth Johnson, Richard C. Berner, and United States. National Historical Publications Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Inventory of the church archives of New Jersey. The Salvation Army, Jersey City (Historical Records Survey, 1940), by United States. Work Projects Administration. Division of Professional and Service Projects and New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• List and Index Society (List and Index Society, 1965), by List & Index Society and Great Britain Public Record Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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