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• Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
• Banks, J. H., 1833-
• Brown, John, 1800-1859
• Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
• Fee, John Gregg, 1816-1901
• Green, J. D. (Jacob D.), 1813-
• Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
• Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880
• Lane, Lunsford, 1803-approximately 1863
• Loguen, Jermain Wesley
• May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
• Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884
• Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883

• An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of American Females (second edition, 1837), by Catharine Esther Beecher (HTML at Virginia)
• 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

• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• John Brown (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1909), by W. E. B. Du Bois (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Old John Brown: The Man Whose Soul is Marching On, by Walter Hawkins (Gutenberg text)
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman (Syracuse, NY: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1859), by Jermain Wesley Loguen
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, by Samuel M. Janney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • facsimile reprint: page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• 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)

• The Ebony Idol (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Mrs. G. M. Flanders
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Virginia

• Slave Insurrection in Southampton County, Va., Headed By Nat Turner; With an Interesting Letter From a Fugitive Slave To His Old Master; Also a Collection of Songs for the Times (New York: Wesleyan Book Room, 1850), ed. by Henry Bibb
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; title page missing
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• 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)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
• John Brown (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1909), by W. E. B. Du Bois (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old John Brown: The Man Whose Soul is Marching On, by Walter Hawkins (Gutenberg text)

• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass: A Narrative (Washington: The author, 1921), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• My Mother As I Recall Her (address delivered 1900, reprinted 1923), by Rosetta Douglass Sprague (page images at loc.gov)

• Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky, by John Gregg Fee (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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