Slaves -- Social conditions

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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)

• 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)

• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself, by Henry Bibb (HTML at Virginia)

• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Maryland Slavery and Maryland Chivalry, by J. S. Lame (page images at MOA)

• 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

• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (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 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

• 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)

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• 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)

• The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
• American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, ed. by Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Emily Grimké, and Sarah Moore Grimké (HTML with commentary at tripod.com)
• The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life
  • page images at LOC
  • Gutenberg text (unillustrated)
• The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, by Octavia V. Rogers Albert (HTML at nypl.org)
• The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Jewett, 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • simpler HTML at Virginia
• The Planter: or, Thirteen Years in the South, by David Brown
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text
• Tupelo, by John H. Aughey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South: Illustrated From the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, by Fanny Kemble, contrib. by John Henry Hopkins and George W. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)

• Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom, by Louis Hughes
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • HTML at LOC
  • Gutenberg text

• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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)

• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

• Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • page images at MOA
• Blake: or, The Huts of America, by Martin Robison Delany (HTML at Virginia)
• Leah Mordecai: A Novel, by Belle K. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (original edition Philadelphia. Crissy and Markley, 1852), by Caroline E. Rush, ed. by Joe Lockard (PDF at eserver.org)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Matthew Urlwin Sears (DjVu at Georgia)

• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, c1853), contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• More Seeds of Knowledge: or, Another Peep at Charles, by Miss Corner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James Battle Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.