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• Civilian aides to the Secretary of the Army. (Fourth U.S. Army, 1988), by 4th United States. Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• A plea for a thorough training ([Pennsylvania?] : [Lincoln University, Pa.?], [between 1865-1885], 1865), by William C. Brown and William H. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Twenty years in public life, 1890-1910 : North Carolina-Tennessee (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, 1910., 1910), by Thomas O. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial service in honor of Temple Prime : at Huntington, Long Island, March 26, 1903. (s.n., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008), ed. by Paul 't Hart and John Uhr (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Speeches, lectures, and letters (Lee and Shepard ;, 1863), by Wendell Phillips and Theodore C. Pease (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)
• Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman (Toronto: Woman's Temperance Pub. Association; Rose, 1889), by Frances E. Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition), by Carry Amelia Nation
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• 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 Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)
• 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
• Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903 : a biography (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Caro Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use and need of the life of Carry A. Nation (F.M. Steves, 1909), by Carry Amelia Nation (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Frances E. Willard (National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1921), by Anna A. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern agitators: or, Pen portraits of living American reformers (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by D. W. Bartlett, George Marston, and John Chester Buttre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of Mrs. Abigail Eames, wife of Thomas Eames. (Thomas Eames, 1826), by Abigail Eames (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Shaen, a brief sketch (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), by Margaret Josephine Shaen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eulogy of the late Hon. Wm. Jay : delivered on the invitation of the colored citizens of New York City, in Shiloh Presbyterian Church, New York, May 12, 1859 (A. Strong, 1859), by Frederick Douglass and N.Y.) Shiloh Presbyterian Church (N.Y. (page images at HathiTrust)
• The making of an American (Macmillan, 1904), by Jacob A. Riis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Henry George (Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1943), by Henry George (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828. With a portrait. ; [Eight lines of quotations]. (Boston: : Printed for the author., 1850., 1850), by Sojourner Truth, Theodore Dwight Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Olive Gilbert, and J.B. Yerrinton and Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg ebook)

• The reformer (Advance Publishing Co. ;, 1902), by Charles M. Sheldon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The chainbreakers (The Roxburgh Publishing Company, Inc., 1914), by Richard James Talbot, Warren Y. Cluff, and Roxburgh Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
• Abolitionism: disrupter of the democratic system or agent of progress? (Rand McNally, 1963), by Bernard A. Weisberger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orations and speeches by J.M. Ashley of Ohio (Philadelphia : Pub. House of the A.M.E. Church, 1894., 1894), by James Mitchell Ashley, Randall K. Burkett, Benjamin William Arnett, African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Afro-American League of Tennessee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolitionists; together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, 1830-1864 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by John F. Hume (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American Colonization Society, 1817-1840. (AMS Press, 1971), by Early Lee Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-slavery history of the John-Brown year (American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right of petition : the power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia; the implied faith of the North and the South to each other in forming the Constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition. Delivered in the House of representatives on the 18th and 20th of January, 1840. (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1840), by William Slade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a delegate to the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women : held in Philadelphia, May, 1838; including an account of other meetings held in Pennsylvania Hall, and of the riot. Addressed to the Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society, and published by its request. (I. Knapp, 1838), by Laura H. Lovell and Fall River Female Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Answer to a letter from the Hon. F. H. Elmore, of South-Carolina. (Browne, Cushney & McCafferty, 1839), by E. M. S. Spencer and F. H. Elmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York. (John A. Gray, 1860), by Gerrit Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts for the people : relating to the present crisis (Published by order of the Democratic State Central Committee, 1862), by Citizen of Indiana and Democratic Party (Ind.). State Central Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Society of Friends : in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on the African slave trade. (Joseph and William Kite, 1840), by Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Representative Meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Brown : révolte de Harper's-Ferry (1859). (Ad. Lainé et J. Havard, 1861), by Armand Fouquier (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American hero : the story of William Lloyd Garrison (Routledge, 1888), by Frances E. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character and influence of abolitionism : a sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on Sabbath evening, Dec. 9th, 1860 (G.F. Nesbit & Co., printers, 1860), by Henry J. Van Dyke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of John Brown to the Virginia Court, Nov. 2, 1859, on receiving the sentence of death, for his heroic attempt at Harper's Ferry, to give deliverance to the captives, and to let the oppressed go free. : (Mr. Brown, upon inquiry whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced upon him, in a clear, distinct voice, replied:) I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. ... (1859), by John Brown and Charles C. Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech against receiving, referring, or reporting on abolition petitions (Blair & Rives, 1844), by Romulus M. Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man, by Calvin Colton (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism: With reference to the duty of American females, by Catharine Esther Beecher (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Abolitionists: Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights, 1830-1864, by John F. Hume (Gutenberg ebook)

• Belva Lockwood testimonial, pageant and ball : Hotel La Salle, Friday night, May eighth, nineteen fourteen. (s.n., 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)

• On a Labor Faker's Trail: The Shady Record of Frank Farrington (Chicago: Workers Party of America, ca. 1924), by T. J. O'Flaherty (multiple formats at archive.org)

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