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• Prince Paul: the freedman soldier. (M. S. S. Society, 1867), by Emily Clemens Pearson, William J. Pierce, and Massachusetts Sabbath School Society (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Children of the Slaves (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Stephen Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Death of Slavery (Loyal Publication Society #28 (without a Part II); New York: W. C. Bryant and Co., 1863), by Peter Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Death of Slavery (Loyal Publication Society #28, with added Part II; 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• The Governor's Message Reviewed (Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons, and Co., 1863), by Henry R. Low
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• The crisis of emancipation in America : being a review of the history of emancipation, from the beginning of the American war to the assassination of President Lincoln (A. W. Bennett, 1865), by Frederic Seebohm (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war and slavery or, Victory only through emancipation. (R. F. Wallcut, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lesson of St. Domingo How to make the war short and the peace rightous. (A. Williams, 1861), by Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bronze group commemorating emancipation. (Printed by order of the City Council, 1879), by Boston (Mass.) and Frederick O. Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern question, past & present. An address. (S. Usher, printer, 1890), by Richard Price Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wrong of slavery, the right of emancipation : and the future of the African race in the United States / by Robert Dale Owen. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1864), by Robert Dale Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The free negro family; a study of family origins before the civil war (Fisk university press, 1932), by E. Franklin Frazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plan of brotherly copartnership of the North and South : for the peaceful extinction of slavery (Dayton and Burdick, 1856), by Elihu Burritt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The facts of the two-fold slavery of the United States, carefully collected during a personal tour in the years 1853 & 1854: with a project of self-emancipation & the conversion of the slave into free peasantry ... (A. Scott, 1854), by Marshall Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation: its course and progress, from 1481 B.C. to A.D. 1875, with a review of President Lincoln's proclamations, the XIII amendment, and the progress of the freed people since emancipation; with a history of the emancipation monument. (Normal school system power press print, 1882), by Joseph T. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• War and emancipation. A Thanksgiving sermon, preached in the Plymouth church, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, November 21, 1861. (T. B. Peterson & brothers, 1861), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war not for emancipation: (E. D. Barker; [etc., etc.], 1862), by Garrett Davis and Alexander H. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter of Gen. A. J. Hamilton, of Texas, to the President of the United States. (W. C. Bryant & co., 1863), by Andrew Jackson Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheap cotton by free labor (A. Williams, 1861), by Edward Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The policy of emancipation : in three letters to the Secretary of War, the President of the United States, and the Secretary of the Treasury (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1863), by Robert Dale Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Objects of the war. Speech of Hon. Thomas D. Eliot, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, December 12, 1861. (H. Polkinhorn, printer, 1861), by Thomas D. Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Francis Train on slavery and universal emancipation. (T.B. Peterson, 1862), by George Francis Train (page images at HathiTrust)
• The constitutionality and expediency of confiscation vindicated : speech of Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, on the bill to confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels : delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 7, 1862. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1862), by Lyman Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation is peace (s.n., 1863), by Robert Dale Owen and Loyal Publication Society of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mastership and its fruits the emancipated slave face to face with his old master : a supplemental report to Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war (W.C. Bryant & Co., 1864), by James McKaye and Edwin M. Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The attitude of Thaddeus Stevens toward the conduct of the Civil War (1908), by James Albert Woodburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true Abraham Lincoln (Lippincott Co., 1903), by William Eleroy Curtis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lesson of St. Domingo : how to make the war short and the peace righteous. (A. Williams & Co., 1861), by Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• La emancipacion de los esclavos en los Estados-Unidos (Impr. de M.G. Hernandez, 1873), by Rafael M. de Labra (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wrong of slavery, the right of emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United States (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1864), by Robert Dale Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the policy of appropriations being made by the government of the United States, for purchasing, liberating and colonizing without the territory of the said states, the slaves thereof, in numbers, some of which have been published in the Baltimore American, and the whole of them in the Genius of Universal Emancipation. (Printed by Benjamin Lundy ..., 1826), by John Allen, Sidney, and Citizen of Maryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization : with an appendix. (G.P.O., 1862), by United States. Congress. House Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization and Dumond Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• President Lincoln and the Chicago memorial of emancipation, a paper read before the Maryland historical society December 12th, 1887 ([Printed by J. Murphy and Co.], 1888), by William W. Patton and Chicago (Ill.). Sept. 7 (page images at HathiTrust)
• President Lincoln's attitude towards slavery and emancipation, with a review of events before and since the Civil War (W.H. Jenkins, 1914), by Henry Watson Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (National Archives and Records Administration, 2010), by United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Geo. H. Yeaman, of Kentucky : on the President's proclamation, delivered in the House of Representatives, December 18th, 1862. (Printed by J. Murphy, 1863), by George H. Yeaman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Train's speeches in England, on slavery and emancipation. Delivered in London, on March 12th, and 19th, 1862. Also his great speech on the "Pardoning of traitors." (T. B. Peterson & brothers, 1862), by George Francis Train and African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of the New Jersey Democratic state central committee to the voters of the state. ([Trenton, 1862), by Democratic party. New Jersey (page images at HathiTrust)
• War and emancipation. A Thanksgiving sermon (T.B. Peterson & brothers, 1861), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free negroism (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The proclamation of freedom. A sermon preached in the North church, Salem, January 4, 1863. (T. J. Hutchinson, printer, 1863), by Edmund Burke Willson and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation: (Normal school steam power press print, 1882), by Joseph T. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The question before us. (Printed by J. Wilson son, 1862), by Samuel Eliot Guild and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• War and emancipation. A Thanksgiving sermon (T.B. Peterson & brothers, 1861), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slaves and slavery: how affected by the war. (Scammell & Co., Printers, 1862), by John Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutionality and expediency of confiscation vindicated. (Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1862), by Lyman Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from Robert Dale Owen ... The cost of peace. ([New York?, 1862), by Robert Dale Owen and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Immediate emancipation a war measure! : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the bill providing for emancipation in Missouri, in the Senate of the United States, February 12th, 1863. (H. Polkinhorn, 1863), by Charles Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, upon the proposal to amend the federal Constitution abolishing slavery throughout the United States, and the history of parties and the conditions and prospects of the country. ([Detroit, 1865), by Levi Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years a slave. From bondage to freedom. The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter. (South Side printing company, 1897), by Louis Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech by Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, on emancipation as a compensation for military service rendered by slaves : delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 2, 1864. (McGill & Witherow, printers, 1864), by John Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints on a cheap mode of purchasing the liberty of a slave population ... (G.A. Neumann, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of William H. Seward, on emancipation in the District of Columbia. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, September 11, 1850. (Printed and for sale by Buell & Blanchard, 1850), by William Henry Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The privilege and dignity, responsibility and duty of the present Congress to emancipate the slaves by law. ([Washington?, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war, and how to end it. (San Francisco, 1861), by William Neill Slocum, YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation: its justice, expediency and necessity, as the means of securing a speedy and permanent peace. (Wright & Potter, printers, 1861), by George S. Boutwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The President's letter to the Hon. James C. Conkling ... Aug. 26, 1863. ([Washington? D.C., 1863), by Abraham Lincoln and James Cook Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the slavery question, addressed to the President of the United States. ([New York, 1862), by Truman Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. W. A. Richardson, of Illinois. (Printed by L. Towers & co., 1862), by William Alexander Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The proclamation of freedom. A sermon preached in Dorchester, January 4, 1863 (Crosby and Nichols;, 1863), by Nathaniel Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from Peter Cooper, on slave emancipation. ([New York, 1863), by Peter Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contrabands and vagrants. (s.n., 1861), by David Sears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free negroism (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation! Its policy and necessity as a war measure for the suppression of the rebellion. ([Boston?, 1862), by Charles Sumner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation. (Normal school steam press print, 1881), by Joseph T. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation of slaves in rebel states. (Scammell & co., printers, 1861), by Aaron Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The olive branch. (L. Towers & co., printers, 1862), by George Purnell Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vindication of the policy of the administration. (Gibson brothers, printers, 1864), by James Henry Lane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copy of a letter written from Buffalo, state of N. Y., December 21st, 1860. To the Honorable Abraham Lincoln, president elect, of the United States of North America. ([Buffalo?, 1863), by Frederick Hasted, Abraham Lincoln, and African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Albert G. Porter, of Indiana. (L. Towers & co., print, 1862), by Albert G. Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A copy of a letter, written to the President of the United States, on slave emancipation ... ([Buffalo?, 1862), by Frederick Hasted and African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to Hon. E. D. Morgan, on the amendment of the Constitution abolishing slavery. Resolutions, passed by the New York Union league club, concerning conditions of peace with the insurgents. (New York, 1865), by Francis Lieber and N.Y.) Union League Club (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The policy of emancipation : words of a true Democrat (New York, 1862), by Robert Dale Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks upon slavery and the slave-trade, addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay. (s.n.], 1839), by George Morgan Gibbes and Slave-Holder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir journal of the 35th national emancipation celebration (M.L. Robinson?, 1898), by historical and emancipation association of Virginia Langston national monument and Robert B. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation: (Normal school steam power press print, 1882), by Joseph T. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipation: its course and progress from 1481 B.C. to A.D. 1875, with a review of President Lincoln's proclamations, the XIII amendment, and the progress of the freed people since emancipation; with a history of the emancipation monument. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Joseph T. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolution and reconstruction : two lectures delivered in the Law School of Harvard College, in January, 1865, and January, 1866 (Hurd and Houghton, 1866), by Joel Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the convention of the people of Massachusetts : holden at Faneuil Hall, Boston, October 7th, 1862, in accordance with the call of Joel Parker and others. (Stereotyped and printed by C.J. Peters, 1862), by Peoples Party (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. L.W. Powell, of Kentucky, on the bill to confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels : delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 16, 1862. (Printed by L. Towers & Co., 1862), by L. W. Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Yearly meeting of Friends held in London, fifth month, 1865, to Friends in North America. ([London?, 1865), by London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suffrage and Reconstruction. (Impartial-Suffrage League, 1866), by Andrew Jackson Hamilton and Impartial Suffrage League (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. W.A. Richardson, of Illinois. Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 19, 1862. (Printed by L. Towers & Co., 1862), by W. A. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech ... on the proposition to amend to Constitution of the United States ... in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1865. (McGill & Witherow, 1865), by George H. Yeaman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of the American struggle, in its military and political aspects, from the inauguration of President Lincoln, 4th March, 1861, till his re-election, 8th November, 1864. (Whittaker & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1864), by Robert Trimble (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)
• Speech of the Hon. John Law, of Indiana : on the "Bill emancipating slaves of rebels," and the "Bill confiscating the property of rebels," nos. 471 and 472, in the House of Representatives, May 23d, 1862. (Henry Polkinhorn ... , 1862), by John Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war, and how to end it. (San Francisco, 1861), by William N. Slocum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The governor's message reviewed, in the Senate, Jan. 28, 1863. (Weed, Parsons and company, 1863), by Henry R. Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. S.S. Blair, of Pennsylvania : delivered in the House of Representatives, Thursday, May 22, 1862, on House bills nos. 471 and 472, for the confiscation of the property and the emancipation of the slaves of rebels. (Scammell & Co., printers, 1862), by Samuel S. Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free negroism; or, Results of emancipation in the North, and the West India Islands. (Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays commercial and political on the real and relative interests of imperial dependent states, particularly those of Great Britain and her dependencies displaying the probable causes of, and a mode of compromising the present disputes between this country and her American colonies. To which is added, an appendix, on the means of emancipating slaves, without loss to their proprietors. (Printed by T. Saint for the author and sold by J. Johnson ... London, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragedy of the negro in America. A condensed history of the enslavement, sufferings, emancipation, present condition and progress of the negro race in the United States of America (Boston, Mass., 1898), by P. Thomas Stanford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true Abraham Lincoln (Lippincott, 1907), by William Eleroy Curtis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The true Abraham Lincoln (J.B. Lippincott company, 1909), by William Eleroy Curtis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The question before us. (J. Wilson and son, 1862), by Samuel Eliot Guild (page images at HathiTrust)
• An attempt to demonstrate the practicability of emancipating the slaves of the United States of North America, and of removing them from the country, without impairing the right of private property, or subjecting the nation to a tax. (Published by G. & C. Carvil [i.e. Carvill]., 1825), by New-England man (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. T.B. Van Buren, on the bill to ratify the amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting slavery : in the New York House of Assembly, March 15, 1865. (Weed, Parsons and Co., Printers, 1865), by T. B. Van Buren and African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• After 50 years (Cincinnati, Ohio : Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, [1916?], 1916), by Mildred Coughlin, Ralph Welles Keeler, and Freedmen's Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two speeches, by Frederick Douglass; : one on West India emancipation, delivered at Canandaigua, Aug. 4th, and the other on the Dred Scott decision, delivered in New York, on the occasion of the anniversary of the American Abolition Society, May, 1857. (C.P. Dewey, printer, American Office, 1857), by Frederick Douglass, C. P. Dewey, N.Y.) American Office (Rochester, and American Abolition Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Emancipation Proclamation : January 1, 1863 (National Archives and Records Administration, 1994), by United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Victory only through emancipation (R.F. Wallcut, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Copy of a letter written from Buffalo, state of N. Y., December 21st, 1860. To the Honorable Abraham Lincoln, President elect, of the United States of North America. ([Buffalo?, 1863), by Frederick Hasted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Views of the minority (s.n., 1862), by John W. Noell and United States. Congress. 1861-1862). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter from Peter Cooper. To His Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. (Loyal Publication Society, 1863), by Peter Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of William H. Seward on the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. (Printed for sale by Buell & Blanchard, 1850), by William Henry Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address at the celebration of Emancipation Day (Standard Steam Book and Job Print., 1870), by H. L. Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• A copy of a letter, written to the President of the United States, on slave emancipation. ([Buffalo?, 1862), by Frederick Hasted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Channing's last address (J. G. Stanly, 1842), by William Ellery Channing, Evert Jansen Wendell, and William B. Osgood Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, delivered in the Senate May 1, 1862, on the bill to confiscate the property and free the slaves of rebels (Scammell & Co., printers ..., 1862), by Henry Wilson, United States. Congress 1861-1863), United States Senate, and D.C.) Scammel & Co. (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on African colonization and the abolition of slavery in two parts (Richards & Tracy, 1833), by Cyril Pearl and New-England Anti-Slavery Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• La emancipacion de los esclavos en los Estados Unidos (in Spanish), by Rafael M. de Labra (Gutenberg ebook)
• No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, by William Lloyd Garrison (Gutenberg ebook)

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