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Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States

The Negro Christianized: An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (first edition; Boston: Printed for the author, 1829), by David Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (third edition; Boston: Revised and published by D. Walker, 1830), by David Walker
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography

Hair-Breadth Escapes from Slavery to Freedom (Manchester: W. Bremner, 1861), by William Troy (HTML and TEI with commentary 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)
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1868), by Elizabeth Keckley
- illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
- Gutenberg text
- page images at HathiTrust
Harriet, The Moses of Her People (second edition, 1886), by Sarah H. Bradford (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Letters from the Slave States, by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
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)
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time (New Haven: The author, 1855), by William Grimes (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave: Written by Himself (New York: The author, 1825), by William Grimes
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- page images at HathiTrust
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (New York: The author, 1849), by Henry Bibb, contrib. by Lucius C. Matlack
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
- page images at HathiTrust
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (third stereotype edition; New York: The author, 1850), by Henry Bibb, contrib. by Lucius C. Matlack
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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)
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes (Gutenberg text and Librivox Audio)
Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave, Taken from His Own Lips (Virginia: 1854?), by Thomas Anderson, ed. by J. P. Clark (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Life of Isaac Mason As a Slave, by Isaac Mason (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days (Boston: Ross Pub. Co., 1909), by Annie L. Burton (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, 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)
An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings With Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist (Chicago: Meyer and Brother, 1893), by Amanda Smith, contrib. by J. M. Thoburn
- illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- page images at HathiTrust
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)
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)
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)
Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
- illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
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
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- page images at HathiTrust
- reprint transcription: Gutenberg text
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 Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
- volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
- 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
- Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
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)
Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (2 volumes in 1; Boston: I. Knapp, 1837), by Olaudah Equiano
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
- illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, et al., 1825), by Solomon Bayley, ed. by Robert Hurnard
- Gutenberg text
- page images at HathiTrust
A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America (second edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Solomon Bayley, ed. by Robert Hurnard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reuben Maddison: A True Story (Birmingham, England: B. Hudson, 1835) (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)
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

Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States -- Fiction

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave: or, The Heiress of Bellevue (1853), by Warren T. Ashton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Sunnybank (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1866), by Marion Harland (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
Sunnybank (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1867), by Marion Harland
- page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
- page images at HathiTrust
English Serfdom and American Slavery (New York: H. Long and Brother, 1854), by Lucien Bonaparte Chase (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)

Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States -- Interviews

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)

Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States -- Pictorial works

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)

Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States -- Registers

Slavery Era Insurance Registry, by California Department of Insurance (HTML and PDF at insurance.ca.gov)

Filed under: Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839), ed. by Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Emily Grimké, and Sarah Moore Grimké (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book: Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life
- page images at LOC
- Gutenberg text (unillustrated)
Considerations on Keeping Negroes, Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of Every Denomination, Part Second (Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1762), by John Woolman (HTML at Evans TCP)
Duties of Masters to Servants: Three Premium Essays (Charleston, SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1851), ed. by Alabama Baptist State Convention, contrib. by Holland Nimmons McTyeire, C. F. Sturgis, and A. T. Holmes
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade in the United States, in a Series of Letters Addressed to the Executive Committee of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836), by E. A. Andrews, contrib. by American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (page images at HathiTrust)
Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of Every Denomination (Philadelphia: J. Chattin, 1754), by John Woolman (HTML at Evans TCP)
The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South: Illustrated From the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, by Fanny Kemble, contrib. by John Henry Hopkins and George W. Woodward (multiple formats at archive.org)
The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
- simpler HTML at Virginia
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work (Boston, MA: J.P. Jewett and Co.; et al., 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple formats at archive.org)
Letters on the Condition of the African Race in the United States, by a Southern Lady (Philadelphia: T. K. and P.G. Collins, printers, 1852), by Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Picture of Slavery in the United States of America (Middletown. CT: E. Hunt, 1834), by George Bourne
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Planter: or, Thirteen Years in the South (Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1853), by David Brown
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
- page images at MOA
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)
The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (New York: Hunt and Eaton, 1890), by Octavia V. Rogers Albert (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes (Gutenberg text and Librivox Audio)
The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
- illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
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)
The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves; With an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; et al.,, 1856), by Benjamin Drew
- HTML and TEI at UNC
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
Tupelo (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Co., 1905), by John H. Aughey
- illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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