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• A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life, by L. R. Ferebee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Printed by D. Laing, Jr., 1850), by Thomas H. Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: or Fifteen Years in Slavery (third edition; Eau Claire, WI: J. H. Tifft, 1913), by William H. Robinson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America (London: C. Gilpin, 1843), by Moses Grandy (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (extracted from the American Historical Review; Washington: American Historical Association, 1925), by Omar ibn Said, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale, and the Eighth Wonder of the World (Cincinnati, OH: Hennegan and Co, ca. 1902) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Deeper Wrong: or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (London: W. Tweedie, 1862), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The History of the Carolina Twins: Told in "Their Own Peculiar Way" By "One of Them", by Christine McCoy and Millie McCoy (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Boston: Published for the author, 1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• Lunsford Lane: or, Another Helper from North Carolina (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863), by William G. Hawkins
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery; With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter (Berwick-upon-Tweed, England: Pub. for the author, 1848), by Moses Roper (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots (as originally published in The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 1855), by John S. Jacobs
  • Part 1: page images at Trove
  • Part 2: page images at Trove

• Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots (as originally published in The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 1855), by John S. Jacobs
  • Part 1: page images at Trove
  • Part 2: page images at Trove
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery; With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter (Berwick-upon-Tweed, England: Pub. for the author, 1848), by Moses Roper (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The History of My Life and Work: Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D. (Raleigh, NC et al: M. L. Latta, 1903), by M. L. Latta (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. (second edition; Boston: J. G. Torrey, printer, 1842), by Lunsford Lane
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.: Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by Purchase of Himself and Family From Slavery, and His Banishment From the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin (third edition; Boston: Printed for the author by Hewes and Watson's Print., 1845), by Lunsford Lane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.: Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by Purchase of Himself and Family From Slavery, and His Banishment From the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin (fourth edition; Boston: Printed for the author by Hewes and Watson's print., 1848), by Lunsford Lane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of My Life and Work: Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D. (Raleigh, NC et al: M. L. Latta, 1903), by M. L. Latta (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James B. Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Brief Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army, in North Carolina in the Spring of 1862, After the Battle of Newbern (New York: V. Colyer, 1864), by Vincent Colyer (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (extracted from the American Historical Review; Washington: American Historical Association, 1925), by Omar ibn Said, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life, by L. R. Ferebee (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America (London: C. Gilpin, 1843), by Moses Grandy (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• The Deeper Wrong: or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (London: W. Tweedie, 1862), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Boston: Published for the author, 1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots (as originally published in The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 1855), by John S. Jacobs
  • Part 1: page images at Trove
  • Part 2: page images at Trove

• Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Printed by D. Laing, Jr., 1850), by Thomas H. Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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