Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Bibliography
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Caribbean Area
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Cuba
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Jamaica
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Poetry
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Southern States
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Suriname
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Tennessee
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Virginia
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- West Indies, British
- Enslaved persons -- West Indies -- Emancipation
- Emancipation of enslaved persons
- Enslaved persons -- Manumission
- Manumission of enslaved persons
- Slavery -- Emancipation
- Slaves -- Emancipation
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Societies After Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West Indies (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002), ed. by Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, and Aims McGuinness (page images at Pitt)
- The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (page images at Pitt)
- Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Rebecca J. Scott (page images at Pitt)
- A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (London: Printed by J. Haddon and sold by W. Ball, ca. 1837), by James Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (London: Printed by J. Rider, ca. 1837), by James Williams
- Voices From Slavery: Written on Hearing a Paper by Joseph Sturge on the Aggravated Horrors of the Slave-Trade, Oct. 1848, by Leeds Anti-Slavery Association (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
- Sketches of Southern Life, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at Virginia)
- The Effects of Emancipation upon the Mental and Physical Health of the Negro of the South (reprinted from the North Carolina Medical Journal, 1896), by J. F. Miller (HTML with commentary at UNC)
- Narrative of Joanna, An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam (From Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam) (Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838), by John Gabriel Stedman (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- A Family Redeemed from Bondage: Being Rev. Edmond Kelley (the Author), His Wife, and Four Children (New Bedford: The author, 1851), by Edmund Kelly (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Children of the Slaves (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Stephen Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Death of Slavery (New York: Loyal Publication Society, ca. 1863), by Peter Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Memorial Discourse, by Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives, Washington City, D.C., on Sabbath, February 12, 1865; With an Introduction, by James McCune Smith, M.D. (with a Philadelphia: J. M. Wilson, 1865), by Henry Highland Garnet, contrib. by James McCune Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- War and Emancipation, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
- The War and Slavery: or, Victory Only Through Emancipation (page images at MOA)
- The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1992), ed. by Frank McGlynn and Seymour Drescher (page images at Pitt)
- Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, Delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883, on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia (1883), by Frederick Douglass (page images at loc.gov)
- The Future of the Colored Race in America, by William Aikman (Gutenberg text)
- The Future of the Colored Race in America: Being an Article in the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, of July, 1862 (Philadelphia: W. S. Young, 1862), by William Aikman (page images at loc.gov)
- The Future of the Colored Race in America: Being an Article in the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, of July, 1862 (New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1862), by William Aikman
- Immediate Emancipation in Maryland: Proceedings of the Union State Central Committee, at a Meeting Held in Temperance Temple, Baltimore, Wednesday, December 16, 1863 (Baltimore: Bull and Tuttle, 1863), by Republican Party (Md.) State Central Committee
- 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)
- The Crisis (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1863), by Cae S. (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Delivered Before the African Society in Boston, 15th of July, 1822, on the Anniversary Celebration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (Boston: Printed by Phelps and Farnham, 1822), by Thaddeus Mason Harris
- The Governor's Message Reviewed (Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons, and Co., 1863), by Henry R. Low
- The Blessings of Abolition: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Sunday, July 1, 1860 (Philadelphia: C. Sherman and Son, 1860), by William Henry Furness (page images at Harvard)
- The War Not For Emancipation, by Garrett Davis (page images at MOA)
- War Powers of Congress: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the House Bills for the Confiscation of Property and the Liberation of Slaves Belonging to Rebels, Delivered in Senate of the United States, June 27, 1862 (Washington: Scammell and Co., 1862), by Charles Sumner
- Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), by Nicole Myers Turner (HTML with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Speech on the Results of Emancipation in the British W. I. Colonies (Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1858), by Henry Bleby (page images at MOA)
- Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's; With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists (London: Samuel Maunder, 1831), by Ashton Warner and Susanna Moodie (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies, With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicality, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure (1823), by Thomas Clarkson (Gutenberg text)
- Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade, in the United States (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1841), by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Enslaved persons -- Biography- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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