Slavery -- Southern States -- History

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• Slavery -- Southern States
• Slavery -- History
• Southern States -- History

• Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century

• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Negro (1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton (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)
• Slavery in the United States (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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

• Incidents of a Southern Tour, by H. Cowles Atwater (page images at MOA)
• A Journey in the Back Country (London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images in Germany)
• A Journey in the Back Country (New York: Mason Brothers, 1860), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at Google)
• A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York; London: Dix and Edwards; Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1856), by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Oration by Ernest Jones, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, on the American Rebellion (1864), by Ernest Charles Jones (illustrated HTML in the UK)
• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by Robert Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The South in the Olden Time, by Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The South's Just Cause (third printing; 1961), by Willie Malvin Caskey (page images at USM)

• 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)

• Sociology for the South: or, The Failure of Free Society, by George Fitzhugh (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse (Augusta, Ga.: Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1861), by Joseph Ruggles Wilson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (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)

• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life, Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855), by Matilda G. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Cause and Contrast: An Essay on the American Crisis (Richmond, Va.: West & Johnston, 1862), by T. W. MacMahon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Negro (1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Tribute for the Negro (Manchester and London: W. Irwin, 1848), by Wilson Armistead (illustrated HTML at TEI at UNC)

• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
  • volume I: HTML and TEI and UNC
  • volume II: HTML and TEI and UNC
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood & Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper (1832), by Isaac T. Hopper (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa, by Thomas Bluett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML with teaching guide at UNC and eserver.org

• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood & Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Social Relations in our Southern States (New York: Henry B. Price, 1860), by Daniel Robinson Hundley (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (with additions; 1786 edition), by Thomas Clarkson (Gutenberg text)

• The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, The Negro Patriot of Hayti (London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co, 1853), by J. R. Beard (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (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

• Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854), by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• African Slavery in America (1856), by Charles Jared Ingersoll (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• The Black Experience in America, by Norman Coombs (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party, by Robert Lewis Dabney (page images at MOA)
• 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)
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (London: Partridge & Oakey, 1854), ed. by H. G. Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)
• Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (2006), by Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (PDF with commentary at Brown)
• A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (Gutenberg text)

• An Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo (London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1797), by Bryan Edwards (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

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