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• 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)
• Who's Who in the American Negro Press (Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., c1960), by Roy L. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia (Baltimore: J. W. Woods, 1869), by Francis Frederick (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Beacon Lights of the Race (Memphis: F. H. Clarke and Bros., 1911), by Green Polonius Hamilton
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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)
• 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)
• History of the American Negro (7 volumes; Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell Pub. Co., 1917-1923), ed. by A. B. Caldwell
  • Volumes 1-6 (2 Georgia volumes, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and DC): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 7 (West Virginia): page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, One of the Pioneers of African Methodism in the West and South (Nashville: Publishing House A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1894), by Sarah J. W. Early (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Men of Maryland (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1914), by George F. Bragg
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• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race (only volume published; Montgomery, AL: National Pub. Co., 1919), ed. by Clement Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1901), by Booker T. Washington
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• Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, by Booker T. Washington (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• A Colored Man Round the World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by David F. Dorr, ed. by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Afro-American Encyclopaedia: or, The Thoughts, Doings and Sayings of the Race (Nashville: Haley and Florida, 1895), by James T. Haley
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• The Afro-American Press and Its Editors (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1891), by I. Garland Penn
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• The Anderson Surpriser: Written After He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age (Macon, GA: The Author, 1895), by Robert Anderson (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)
• Autobiography and Work of Bishop M. F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe"), Editor, Publisher, and Church Extension Secretary: A Narration of His Whole Career From the Cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America (Nashville, TN: Pub. for the author by the Publishing House of the M. E. Church, 1912), by M. F. Jamison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D. (Atlanta: Franklin Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Lucius Henry Holsey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (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)
• Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) for a Quarter of a Century: Life of William Walker (Saginaw, MI: Friedman and Hynan, 1892), by William Walker, ed. by Thomas S. Gaines (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The College of Life, or, Practical Self-Educator: A Manual of Self-Improvement for the Colored Race, Forming an Educational Emancipator and a Guide to Success (c1896), by Henry Davenport Northrop, Joseph R. Gay, and I. Garland Penn
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• Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography, by Robert Russa Moton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Freedmen's Book (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Lydia Maria Child
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• Hair-Breadth Escapes from Slavery to Freedom (Manchester: W. Bremner, 1861), by William Troy (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 Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Last of the Pioneers, or, Old Times in East Tenn.: Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years) (Knoxville, TN: S. B. Newman and Co., 1902), by Pharaoh Jackson Chesney and J. C. Webster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Including His Escape and Struggle for Liberty, of Charles A. Garlick, Born a Slave in Old Virginia, Who Secured His Freedom by Running Away from His Master's Farm in 1843 (Jefferson, OH: J. A. Howells and Co., 1902), by Charles A. Garlick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman (Philadelphia: Collins, 1863), by Elizabeth (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience, by Booker T. Washington (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
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• 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
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• 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
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• A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (first edition; Boston: The author, 1850), by Nancy Prince (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince (second edition; Boston: The author, 1853), by Nancy Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 the Life of James Watkins, Formerly a "Chattel" in Maryland, U. S.: Containing an Account of His Escape from Slavery, Together with an Appeal on Behalf of Three Millions of Such "Pieces of Property," Still Held Under the Standard of the Eagle (Bolton, UK: Kenyon and Abbatt, 1852), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
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• 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)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1847), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave: Written by Himself (London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African descent (Washington: American Negro Academy, 1914), by John Wesley Cromwell
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• Progress of a Race: or the Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro (revised and enlarged edition; Atlanta et al.: J. L. Nichols and Co., 1902), ed. by J. W. Gibson and W. H. Crogman, contrib. by Booker T. Washington and Fannie Barrier Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress of a Race: or the Remarkable Advancement of the American Negro (new edition, some early pages missing (see earlier edition for full B. T. Washington introduction); Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols and Co., c1920), ed. by J. L. Nichols, W. H. Crogman, H. F. Kletzing, and J. W. Gibson, contrib. by Margaret James Murray Washington, Charles M. Melden, Matthew W. Dogan, Albon L. Holsey, and Robert Russa Moton
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• Progress of a Race: or the Remarkable Advancement of the Colored American (revised and enlarged edition; Naperville, IL: J. L. Nichols and Co., c1912), ed. by J. W. Gibson, W. H. Crogman, and H. F. Kletzing, contrib. by Booker T. Washington and Fannie Barrier Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Shadow and Sunshine, by Eliza Suggs
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• 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)
• Struggles for Freedom: or, The Life of James Watkins, Formerly a Slave in Maryland, U. S.; in Which is Detailed a Graphic Account of His Extraordinary Escape from Slavery, Notices of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Sentiments of American Divines on the Subject of Slavery, etc., etc. (19th edition; Manchester, UK: Printed for J. Watkins by A. Heywood, 1860), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary 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)
• What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography, by Thomas William Burton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Negro in Sports (revised edition; Washington: Associated Publishers, 1949), by Edwin Bancroft Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury, in the County of Glocester, and State of New Jersey, on Saturday the 8th Day of July Last, To the People of Colour; To Which Is Added His Dying Confession or Declaration; Also, a Copy of a Letter to His Wife, Written the Day Previous to His Execution (Philadelphia: The Purchasers, 1797), by Abraham Johnstone (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Echoes from a Pioneer Life (Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1922), by Jared Maurice Arter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Harriet, The Moses of Her People (second edition, 1886), by Sarah H. Bradford (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
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  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
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  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
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  • 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
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• Josiah, The Maimed Fugitive: A True Tale (London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1873), by Henry Bleby
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• 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
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• The Life and Sufferings of John Joseph, a Native of Ashantee, in Western Africa, Who Was Stolen from His Parents at the Age of 3 Years, and Sold to Mr. Johnstone, a Cotton Planter, in New Orleans, South America (Wellington: Printed for J. Joseph by J. Greedy, 1848), by John Joseph (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery, Written by Himself (New Bedford, MA: Press of B. Lindsey, 1847), by Leonard Black (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Life and Work, by Alexander Walters (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man): Giving an Account of His Birth; The Period He Was Held in Slavery; His Release, and Removal to Canada, etc; Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad (Toronto: Smallwood; James Stephens, 1851), by Thomas Smallwood (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last (New Haven, CT: T. and S. Green, 1790), by Joseph Mountain, ed. by David Daggett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, as Given by Themselves; and A Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly after Their Arrest (St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841), ed. by A. B. Chambers, contrib. by Madison Henderson, James W. Seward, Alfred Amos Warrick, and Charles Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Companions, or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction: A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves (London: Edwards and Co., 1852), by John Passmore Edwards, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• From Captivity to Fame: or, The Life of George Washington Carver (Boston, MA: Meador Pub. Co., c1929), by Raleigh H. Merritt (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray (Chicago: Free Methodist Publishing House, c1926), by Mrs. L. P. Ray and L. P. Ray (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• Autobiography of Henry Parker (published sometime in the 1860s), by Henry Parker (HTML and TEI with commentary 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
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• Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A. M. E. Church (Baltimore: The author, 1872), by Thomas W. Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1916), by Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
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• Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1918), by Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt
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• A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African: Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend (New York: J. C. Totten, 1810), by George White (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross (New York: E. S. Arnold and Co., 1839), by Peter Wheeler and C. Edwards Lester (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Colored Man Round the World: By a Quadroon (printed for the author, 1858), by David F. Dorr
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• The Fugitive Blacksmith: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States (second edition; London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by James W. C. Pennington
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• The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography, by William Pickens (HTML and TEI 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 Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner, Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U. S. Colored Troops (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1868), by Frank A. Rollin
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• Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany, Sub-Assistant Commissioner Bureau Relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th U. S. Colored Troops (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883), by Frank A. Rollin
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Compiled and Written by Himself (Portsea, UK: The author, ca. 1811), by John Jea (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849), by Josiah Henson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary 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 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
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• 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)
• The Old Faithful Servant: Life History of J.W. Holley, Born and Reared a Slave, After Freedom Became a Worker in the Master's Vineyard (Columbus, OH: Inskeep Print. Co., 1924), by J. W. Holley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Houston: Rein and Sons Co., printers, 1910), by J. Vance Lewis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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
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• Samuel Hall, 47 Years a Slave: A Brief Story of His Life Before and After Freedom Came to Him (Washington, IA: Journal Print, 1912), by Samuel Hall, ed. by Orville Elder (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery Days in Old Kentucky: A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children, By One of the Children (Ogdensburg, NY: Republican and Journal Print, 1901), by Isaac Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Tribute for the Negro (Manchester and London: W. Irwin, 1848), by Wilson Armistead
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• Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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