Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Biography
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- Freed persons -- Virginia -- Biography
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Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)- Last of the Pioneers, or, Old Times in East Tenn.: Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years) (Knoxville, TN: S. B. Newman and Co., 1902), by Pharaoh Jackson Chesney and J. C. Webster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Lost Family Found: An Authentic Narrative of Cyrus Branch and His Family, Alias John White (1869), by E. M. W. (Elizabeth Merwin Wickham) (HTML and TEI an UNC)
- Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Autobiography of Henry Parker (published sometime in the 1860s), by Henry Parker (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia (Baltimore: J. W. Woods, 1869), by Francis Frederick (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY (Lexington, KY: A. W. Elder, 1854) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Brief Account of the Life, Experience, Travels, and Gospel Labours of George White, an African: Written by Himself, and Revised by a Friend (New York: J. C. Totten, 1810), by George White (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Buried Alive (Behind Prison Walls) for a Quarter of a Century: Life of William Walker (Saginaw, MI: Friedman and Hynan, 1892), by William Walker, ed. by Thomas S. Gaines (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith, by Philip Barrett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher (New York: F. H. Revell Co., c1908), by William E. Hatcher
- Life, Including His Escape and Struggle for Liberty, of Charles A. Garlick, Born a Slave in Old Virginia, Who Secured His Freedom by Running Away from His Master's Farm in 1843 (Jefferson, OH: J. A. Howells and Co., 1902), by Charles A. Garlick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church, With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847; Also, A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou (Pittsburgh: Ohio A. M. E. Conference, 1850), by A. R. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (second edition, 1890), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords: Containing a Collection of Certificates, Letters, &c. Written by Himself (second edition; Lynchburg, VA: C. M. Smith, 1855), by Christopher McPherson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
- A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
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Narrative of a colored man (J. F. Weishampel, Jr., 1859), by Noah Davis (page images at HathiTrust)- John Jasper : the unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher (Fleming H. Revell, 1908), by William Eldridge Hatcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVII, Virginia Narratives, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
- Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Autobiography of Henry Parker (published sometime in the 1860s), by Henry Parker (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman, by John Quincy Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated 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
- The African Preacher: An Authentic Narrative (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1849), by William S. White
- From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph; The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1893), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa; With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization (Baltimore: Armstrong and Berry, 1837), by James B. Taylor, contrib. by John H. B. Latrobe (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns
- Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown
- The Confessions of Nat Turner (Richmond: T. R. Gray, 1832), by Nat Turner, ed. by Thomas R. Gray
- The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va. (Baltimore: T. R. Gray, 1831), by Nat Turner, ed. by Thomas R. Gray
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