Slavery -- West Indies -- History

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• 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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• 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 Right Way the Safe Way, Proved by Emancipation in the British West Indies, and Elsewhere (ca. 1860), by Lydia Maria Child (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Voices From Slavery: Written on Hearing a Paper by Joseph Sturge on the Aggravated Horrors of the Slave-Trade, Oct. 1848, by Leeds Anti-Slavery Association (multiple formats with commentary at eserver.org)

• 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)

• Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts (a selection from "Travellers and Outlaws"), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)

• Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts (a selection from "Travellers and Outlaws"), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)

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

• Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies, With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicality, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure (1823), by Thomas Clarkson (Gutenberg text)

• 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

• A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (Gutenberg text)

• Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America, From the Year 1772, to 1777 (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Johnson and T. Payne, 1813), by John Gabriel Stedman, illust. by William Blake, Thomas Holloway, and Francesco Bartolozzi
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• A Narrative of the Negro (1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton (illustrated HTML and 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)
• 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)

• The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated 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)

• Bread, or Bullets! Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Joan Casanovas (searchable page images at Pitt)

• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (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)

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