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• United States -- Newspapers

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• The Liberator (US abolitionist newspaper, 1831-1865), ed. by William Lloyd Garrison (full serial archives)
• The Mirror of Liberty, ed. by David Ruggles (partial serial archives)
• The National Era (partial serial archives)
• The North Star, ed. by Frederick Douglass (partial serial archives)

• Freemen's Champion (partial serial archives)

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

• Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Jean McClure Mudge (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• An Address to Free Colored Americans: Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held in the City of New-York, by Adjournment from 9th to 12th May, 1837 (New York: W. S. Dorr, 1837), by Sarah Moore Grimké
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• An Appeal to the Women of the Nominally Free States: Issued by an Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held by Adjournments From the 9th to the 12th of May, 1837 (second edition; Boston: I. Knapp, 1838), by Angelina Emily Grimké (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Autographs for Freedom (second series; Auburn: Alden, Beardsley and Co.; Rochester: Wanzer, Beardsley and Co., 1854), ed. by Julia Griffiths (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Captains Drayton and Sayres: or, The Way in Which Americans are Treated, for Aiding the Cause of Liberty at Home (1848) (page images at Cornell)
• An Oration, Delivered on January 1, 1823 in Bethel Church, On the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Philadelphia: J. Young, 1823), by Jeremiah Gloucester (PDF at nypl.org)
• Personal Reminiscences of the Anti-Slavery and Other Reforms and Reformers (Plainfield, NJ: A. R. Powell; New York: Caulon Press, 1899), by Aaron M. Powell, contrib. by Isaac H. Clothier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, Without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (1825), by Benjamin Lundy (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869), by Samuel J. May
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
• A Friendly Mission: John Candler's Letters From America (Indiana Historical Society Publications v16 #1; 1951), by John Candler, ed. by Gayle Thornbrough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Anti-Slavery History of the John-Brown Year: Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society (with two distinct title pages; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society (multiple formats at Google)
• An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833), by Lydia Maria Child
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England (London: John Snow, 35 Paternoster Row, 1855), by Samuel Ringgold Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Domestic Slavery in its Relations with Wealth: An Oration Pronounced in the Cuban Democratic Athenauem of New York, On the Evening of the 1st of January, 1854 (New York: W. H. Tinson, 1855), by Lorenzo Allo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Exposition of the Object and Plans of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (ca. 1835), by American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford: Park Pub. Co., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Boston: De Wolfe and Fiske Co., c1892), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Martyr Age of the United States (Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Co. [etc.]; New York: J.S. Taylor, 1839), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pinda: A True Tale (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1840), by Maria Weston Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Principles and Measures of True Democracy: The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, Held at Cincinnati, June 11, 1845, to the People of the United States; Also, the Letter of Elihu Burritt to the Convention (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States (ca. 1859), by John Brown
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at archives.gov; pages may be in reverse order in some browsers
• Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1935), by William Sumner Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cause of the Hard Times: Why is This Country in Such Deep Distress, Without Famine, Pestilence or War? (Boston: New England Anti-Slavery Tract Association, 1843), by Alvan Stewart (page images at Cornell)
• An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (New York: Hardcastle and Van Pelt, 1813), by George Lawrence (PDF at nypl.org)
• Twenty Reasons for Total Abstinence from Slave-Labour Produce, by Elihu Burritt (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1893), by James M. Gregory, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A History of the Amistad Captives (New Haven: E. L. and J. W. Barber, 1840), ed. by John Warner Barber (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Letters of Lydia Maria Child, With a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Harriet Winslow Sewall, contrib. by John Greenleaf Whittier and Wendell Phillips (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom (c1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston, by Maria W. Stewart (PDF at Digital Schomburg)

• Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held in Philadelphia, May 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th, 1838 (second convention; Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Anti-slavery Convention of American Women
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Proceedings of the Third Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, Held in Philadelphia, May 1st, 2d and 3d, 1839 (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Thompson, 1839), by Anti-slavery Convention of American Women
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, to the People of the United States (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oliver Dyer's Phonographic Report of the Proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9th and 10th, 1848, by Free Soil Party National Convention, contrib. by Oliver Dyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Chicago

• All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1737), by Benjamin Lay (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm, by Jesse Macy (Gutenberg text)
• 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 and TEI at UNC)

• Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist: An Address to the Young Friends of the Slave (Newcastle: Printed by T. Pigg and Co., 1859) (page images at Cornell)

• American Anti-Slavery Reporter (full serial archives)
• The Anti-Slavery Examiner (full serial archives)

• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.