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• Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, in Two Volumes; To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (biographical memoirs by Jekyll; 2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1782), by Ignatius Sancho, contrib. by Joseph Jekyll
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • both volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
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• Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African; To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life (third edition; London: Printed by J. Nichols; and sold by C. Dilly, 1784), by Ignatius Sancho, contrib. by Joseph Jekyll
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery, by William Craft and Ellen Craft
  • HTML at Lehigh
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• An Argument in The Case of James Sommersett, a Negro, Lately Determined by The Court of King's Bench: Wherein It Is Attempted To Demonstrate The Present Unlawfulness of Domestic Slavery in England; To Which is Prefixed a State of The Case: By Mr. Hargrave, One of the Counsel for the Negro (London: Printed for the author, 1772), by Francis Hargrave (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The story of Aaron (so named) the son of Ben Ali : told by his friends and acquaintances (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jamaica (Printed for Hunt and Clarke, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 1826), by Cynric R. Williams, Carew Henry Reynell, and Hunt and Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Which one? : And other ante bellum days (Boston : James H. Earle Company, [1910], 1910), by Mary M. Pleasants (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von der Deliktsfähigkeit der sklaven nach römischem Recht. Erste abtheilung. (Leipzig, 1873), by Adolf Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• From log cabin to the pulpit : or fifteen years in slavery (W.H. Robinson, 1913), by William H. Robinson and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• The little lady of the horse (Roberts brothers, 1898), by Evelyn Raymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gather roun ye darkies all (H.M. Higgins, 1862), by Joseph Philbrick Webster, Sanford Fillmore Bennett, and United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Abe has gone and did it, boys (H.M. Higgins, 1862), by Joseph Philbrick Webster and Sanford Fillmore Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro life in the slave states of America (Clarke, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Onkel Toms stuga : en skildring af de förtrycktes lif (Hemlandets, 1902), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black ivory : a tale of adventure among the slavers of East Africa (James Nisbet & Co., 1873), by R. M. Ballantyne, G. Pearson, T. and A. Constable, and England) James Nisbet and Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America. Written in Boston, in the state of Massachusetts, Sept. 28th, 1829. (Boston : Published by David Walker, 1829., 1829), by David Walker and W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin. (Dodd, Mead, 1952), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In ole Virginia (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, MDCCCXCVII [1897], 1897), by Thomas Nelson Page and Margaret Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)

• The southern Slavs (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1915), by Nevill Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Rev. Thomas James, by Himself (Rochester, NY: Post Express Printing Co., 1886), by Thomas James (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (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)
• The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
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• 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)
• The History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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 with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (originally published 1798), by Venture Smith (Gutenberg text)
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America: Related by Himself (New London, CT: Printed by C. Holt, 1798), by Venture Smith
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (Middletown, CT: J. S. Stewart, 1897), by Venture Smith, ed. by H. M. Selden (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman (New York: D. Fanshaw, 1828), by T. H. Gallaudet (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 Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years (tract #96; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, ca. 1866), by G. L. Foster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery unmasked: being a truthful narrative of a three years' residence and journeying in eleven southern states: to which is added the invasion of Kansas, including the last chapter of her wrongs. (E. Darrow & brother, 1856), by Philo Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the life and labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, a colored man and local preacher ... ([s.n.], 1860), by Greensbury Washington Offley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life of Thomas Cooper. (New York, 1837), by Isaac T. Hopper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthony Burns : a history (John P. Jewett and Co., 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statement with regard to the Moorish prince, Abduhl Rahhahman (Printed by Daniel Fanshaw, 1828), by T. H. Gallaudet and American Colonization Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and adventures of James Williams, a fugitive slave with a full description of the underground railroad. (s.n.], 1873), by James Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gustavus Vassa (Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, no. 261 Pearl-street. R. & G.S. Wood, printers, 1829), by Olaudah Equiano, Alexander Anderson, Abigail Mott, R. & G.S. Wood (Firm), and Samuel Wood & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life in Brazil (Harper & Bros., 1856), by Thomas Ewbank (page images at HathiTrust)

• A bill to be entitled "An act to provide payment for slaves impressed under state laws, and lost in the public service". (C. S. A., 1864), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vserossīĭskai︠a︡ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡ vystavka 1867 goda (Vʺ Universitetskoĭ tipografīi (Katkovʺ i K.), 1867), by antropologīi i ėtnografīi Imperatorskoe obshchestvo li︠u︡biteleĭ estestvoznanīi︠a︡ and antropologii i ėtnografii Ėtnograficheskai︠a︡ vystavka 1867 goda Imperatorskogo obshchestva li︠u︡biteleĭ estestvoznanii︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 (HTML at Virginia)
• Il formione (Paravia, 1923), by Terence and Pasquale Giardelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phormio of Terence (Macmillan, 1889), by Terence, John Bond, Arthur S. Walpole, and John Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. Terenti Phormio, with notes and introductions intended for the higher forms of public schools (Clarendon press, 1887), by Terence and A. Sloman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Escape; Or, A Leap For Freedom: A Drama, in Five Acts, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

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