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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)
• Negro slavery; or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society, as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. (London, R. Taylor, 1823), by Zachary Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assiento ajustado entre las dos magestades, catholica, y christianissima, con la Com̃pania real de Guinea, establecida en el reyno de Francia, sobre encargarse de la introduccion de negros en la America, por tiempo de diez años, que empeçaràn à correr en primero de mayo proximo venidero de mil setecientos y dos, y cumpliràn otro tal dia del año de mil setecientos y doze. Traité fait entre les deux roys, catholique et tres-chrétien, avec la Compagnie royale de Guinée etablie en France; concernant l'introduction des negres dans l'Amerique, pendant le temps de dix années, qui commenceront le premier jour de may prochain mil sept cent deux, & finiront à un pareil jour de l'année mil sept cent douze. ([A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de C. Ballard, 1712]), by Spain (page images at HathiTrust)
• An abstract of the British West Indian statutes, for the protection and government of slaves. (London, J. Ridgway, 1830), by England) West India Planters and Merchants (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai de statistique raisonnée sur les colonies européennes des tropiques, et sur les questions coloniales, par M. de Montvéran, avec un appendix des pièces justificatives, et dix tableaeux ou états de population, de commerce ... (Paris, Delaunay, 1833), by M. de Montvéran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation; or Practical advice to British slave-holders: with suggestions for the general improvement of West India affairs. By T. S. Winn. (London : Sold by W. Phillips, 1824), by T. S. Winn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies and the Spanish Main, by James Rodway. (London, T. F. Unwin, 1896), by James Rodway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The right way the safe way : proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere / by L. Maria Child. (New York : [s.n.], 1860), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• A winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky. By Joseph John Gurney. (London, J. Murray; [etc., etc.], 1840), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies by Bryan Edwards ; illustrated by an atlas ... To which is added, a general description of the Bahama islands, by Daniel M'Kinnen, esq. (Philadelphia : Printed and sold by James Humphreys, at the Corner of Second and Walnut-streets, 1806), by Bryan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies and the Spanish Main, by James Rodway. (London, T. F. Unwin, [c1896]), by James Rodway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet. With selections from his correspondence. Ed. by his son, Charles Buxton, Esq. ... (London : J. Murray, 1848), by Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enough of war! : the question of slavery conclusively and satisfactorily solved, as regards humanity at large and the permanent interests of present owners / by D. Jose Ferrer De Couto. (New York : S. Hallet, Printer, 1864), by José Ferrer de Couto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the West Indies : including observations relative to the Creoles and slaves of the western colonies and the Indian of South America : interspersed with remarks upon the seasoning or yellow fever of hot climates / By George Pinckard. (London : Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, etc., 1816), by George Pinckard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonies étrangeres et Haïti, résultats de l'émancipation anglaise. (Paris, Pagnerre, 1843), by Victor Schoelcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing a winter in the West Indies. By Joseph John Gurney. (New York, Press of M. Day, 1840), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cri des colons contre un ouvrage de M. l'évêque et sénateur Grégoire, ayant pour titre De la littérature des Nègres ou, Réfutation des inculpations calomnieuses faites aux colons par l'auteur, et par les autres philosophes négrophiles, tels que Raynal, Valmont de Bomare, etc. Conduite atroce des Nègres et des mulâtres qui ont joué les premiers rôles dans les scènes tragiques de S. Domingue, et dont l'évêque Grégoire préconise les qualités morales et sociales. Dissertation sur l'esclavage ... (Paris : Delaunay, libraire, 1810), by F.-R. de Tussac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches statistiques sur l'esclavage colonial et sur les moyens de le supprimer, Par Alex, Moreau de Jonnès ... (Paris, Imprimerie de Bourgogne et Martinet, 1842), by Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a committee appointed to inquire into the actual condition of the slaves in this Island. ... (London, W. Sior, 1824), by Committee of the Council of Barbadoes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The crisis of the sugar colonies; or, An enquiry into the objects and probable effects of the French expedition to the West Indies; and their connection with the colonial interests of the British empire. To which are subjoined, sketches of a plan for settling the vacant lands of Trinidada. In four letters to the Right Hon. Henry Addington. (London, Printed for J. Hatchard, 1802), by James Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the life and travels of the late Charles Macpherson, esq. in Asia, Africa, and America. Illustrative of manners, customs, and character; with a particular investigation of the nature, treatment, and possible improvement, of the negro in the British and French West India Islands. Written by himself chiefly between the years 1773 and 1790 ... (Edinburgh, A. Constable, 1800), by Charles Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A winter in the West Indies : described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky / by Joseph John Gurney. (London : J. Murray, 1841), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity and slavery : in a course of lectures preached at the Cathedral and Parish Church of St. Michael, Barbados / by Edward Eliot. (London : J. Hatchard and Son, 1833), by Edward Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of Negro slaves in the sugar colonies / by a professional planter [i.e. Dr. Collins]. (London : Printed by J. Barfield, for Vernor and Hood, 1803), by Dr Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical view of the Present State of Slavery in the West Indies; or, an Examination of Mr. Stephen's "Slavery of the British West India Colonies": containing more particularly an account of the actual condition of the negroes in Jamaica: with observations on the decrease of slaves since the abolition of the slave trade, and on the probable effects of legislative emancipation: also, strictures on the Edinburgh review, and on the pamphlets of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Bickell. By Alexander Barclay, lately and for twenty-one years resident in Jamaica. (London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1826), by Alexander Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech ... on laying before the House of Commons the papers in explanation of the measures adopted by His Majesty's government with a view of ameliorating the conditionn of the negro slaves in the West Indies on Wednesday 17 of March 1824, to which is added an order in council for improving the condition of the slaves in Trinidad. (Lupton Relfe, 1824), by George Canning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obi; or, The history of Threefingered Jack. In a series of letters from a resident in Jamaica to his friend in England. (Worcester [Mass.] Printed by I Thomas, jr., 1804), by William Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro slavery, or, a view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society : as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. (London : Hatchard and Son, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies, before and since slave emancipation, comprising the Windward and Leeward islands' military command; founded on notes and observations collected during a three years' residence. By John Davy ... (London, W. & F. G. Cash; [etc., etc.], 1854), by John Davy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage aux Antilles, françaises, anglaises, danoises, espagnoles; à Saint-Domingue et aux États-Unis d'Amérique ... (Paris, Au Comptoir des imprimeurs-unis, 1843-44), by A. Granier de Cassagnac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un hiver aux Antilles, en 1839-40, ou, Lettres sur les résultats de l'abolition de l'esclavage, dans les colonies anglaises des Indes-Occidentales, adressées à Henri Clay, du Kentucky, par Joseph John Gurney, et tr. de l'anglais sur la 3 éd., par J.J. Pacaud. (Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1842), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on the West Indies. By James Walker. (London, Printed for R. Fenner, 1818), by James Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro slavery, or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society : as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. (London : R. Taylor, 1823), by Thomas Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The horrors of slavery, by Wm. H.H. Johnson. (Vancouver, B.C., 1901), by William H. H. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominions. (Philadelphia printed, London, Reprinted and sold by J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les peaux noires : scènes de la vie des esclaves / par Xavier Eyma. (Paris : Michel Lévy frères, 1857), by Xavier Eyma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effects of the late colonial policy of Great Britain described, in a letter to the Right Hon. Sir George Murray shewing the effects produced in the West India colonies by the recent measures of government. (London : Smith, Elder, 1830), by Alexander Barclay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies as they are; or, A real picture of slavery, but more particularly as it exists in the island of Jamaica...with notes. (London, J. Hatchard & son, 1825), by Richard Bickell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837. (New York, The American Anti-slavery Society, 1838), by James A. Thome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing a winter in the West Indies. By Joseph John Gurney. (New York, Press of M. Day, 1840), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free negroism; (New York, Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies. (London, printed for John Stockdale, 1807), by Bryan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A soldier's recollections of the West Indies and America : with a narrative of the expedition to the Island of Walcheren / by Leiut. Col. St. Clair. (London : R. Bentley, 1834), by Thomas Staunton St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches and recollections of the West Indies. By a resident. (London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation in the West Indies. (New York, Pub. by the American anti-slavery society, 1838), by James A. Thome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two letters, severally addressed to the editor of the Christian Observer and the editor of the Christian Remembrancer, relative to the slave-cultured estates of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel / By the Rev. John Riland. (London : John Hatchard and Son, 1828), by John Riland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abridgement of the minutes of the evidence, : taken before a Committee of the Whole House, to whom it was referred to consider of the slave-trade, 1789-1790. ([London : s.n., 1789-1791.]), by Great Britain. Parliament. Committee of the Whole House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free negroism; (New York, Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominions. (Philadelphia printed, London, Reprinted and sold by J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West India colonies; the calumnies and misrepresentations circulated against them by the Edinburgh review, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Cropper, &c. &c., examined and refuted by James M'Queen. (London, Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1824), by James MacQueen (page images at HathiTrust)
• La abolición de la esclavitud en países de colonización europea. Exposición de disposiciones, compiladas por D. José Ahumada y Centurión. (Madrid, Imp. de F. Lopez Vizcaino, 1870), by José de Ahumada y Centurión (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing a winter in the West Indies. By Joseph John Gurney. (New York, Press of M. Day & co., 1840), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a visit to the West Indies, in 1840 and 1841. By George Truman, John Jackson, and Thos. B. Longstreth. (Philadelphia, Merrihew and Thompson, printers, 1844), by George Truman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The slavery of the British West India colonies delineated, as it exists both in law and practice, and compared with the slavery of other countries, ancient and modern. By James Stephen ... (London, J. Butterworth and son [etc.] New York, Kraus Reprint, 1824-30), by James Stephen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book for the "impending crisis"! Appeal to the common sense and patriotism of the people of the United States. "Helperism" annihilated! The "irrepressible conflict" and its consequences! By Louis Schade, of Iowa. (Washington, D.C., Little, Morris, & Co., 1860), by Louis Schade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro slavery; or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of society, as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica. (London, Printed for Hatchard and son [etc.], 1823), by Zachary Macaulay (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of the Colonial slave registration acts, in a report of a Committee of the Board of Directors of the African Institution, made on the 22d of February, 1820 (London, Ellerton and Henderson, 1820), by England) African Institution (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions of Henry Brougham, esq. on negro slavery (London : H.J. M'Clary, 1830), by Lord Brougham (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Political tracts, by W. Fox. (London, 1791-1794]), by William Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The right way the safe way / proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere. (New York, 1860), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies. By Bryan Edwards. (London, Printed for John Stockdale, 1801), by Bryan Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les peaux noires : scènes de la vie des esclaves / par Xavier Eyma. (Paris : Michel Lévy frères, 1887), by Xavier Eyma (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, bart., edited by his son, Charles Buxton, with An inquiry into the results of emancipation. (London, J. Murray, 1882), by Charles Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cri des colons contre un ouvrage de M. l'évêque et sénateur Grégoire, ayant pour titre 'De la Littérature des nègres' (in French), by F.-R. de Tussac (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, by Mary Prince (Gutenberg ebook)

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