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• 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)
• 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 Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell (illustrated 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)
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church (Xenia, OH: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881), by David Smith, contrib. by David Alexander Payne (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom, by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML at nypl.org
  • HTML at UNC
• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, by James Williams (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)

• A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon, Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York (Jersey City: W. W. & L. A. Pratt, Printers, Sentinel Buildings, 1853), by Levin Tilmon (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)

• 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)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, by William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML at Lehigh
  • Gutenberg text

• 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

• 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)

• Life of Mary F. McCray, Born and Raised a Slave in the State of Kentucky, by S. J. McCray (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Life and Work, by Alexander Walters (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America (Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845), by Lewis Garrard Clarke (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Reuben Maddison: A True Story (Birmingham, England: B. Hudson, 1835) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and History of William O'Neal; or, The Man Who Sold His Wife (St. Louis: A.R. Fleming, 1896), by William O'Neal (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church (Xenia, OH: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881), by David Smith, contrib. by David Alexander Payne (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, A Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary (1859), by G. W. Offley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at eserver.org
  • Gutenberg text
• 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)

• 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
• Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Published by Bela Marsh, 1848), by Henry Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com

• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave (1849 UK edition), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage--Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery-- Incidents During the War--Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story, by Mattie J. Jackson and Lucy S. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (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

• 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)
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML and page images at LOC

• A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life, by L. R. Ferebee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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: Published by H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: or Fifteen Years in Slavery, by William H. Robinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The History of the Carolina Twins: Told in "Their Own Peculiar Way" By "One of Them", by Millie-Christine (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • HTML at nypl.org
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery, by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America, by Moses Grandy (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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