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• 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)

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• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• 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)
• Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave. (Bela Marsh, 1849), by Henry Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of a southern planter (Cushings & Bailey, 1887), by Susan Dabney Smedes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Second Edition, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
• Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, During a Captivity of More than Twenty Years Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, One of the So-Called Christian States of North America (Boston: B. Marsh, 1846), by Lewis Garrard Clarke and Milton Clarke (HTML and TEI 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, by J. D. Green (Gutenberg ebook)

• Narrative of Events in the Life of William Green (Formerly a Slave): Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: L. M. Guernsey, 1853), by William Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Sketch of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton, and Reminiscences of Slavery (Portland, ME: Daily Press Print, ca. 1870), by Lewis Charlton, ed. by Edward Everett Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and times of Frederick Douglass : His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history, by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life on the old plantation in ante-bellum days (Columbia, S.C. : State Co., Printers, 1911., 1911), by I. E. Lowery (page images at HathiTrust)

• Uncle Tom's cabin (Houghton, Mifflin, 1893), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'amour d'un Nègre. (M. Lévy, 1860), by Charles Jobey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The missionary Smith : substance of the debate in the House of Commons on Tues., the 1st and on Friday the 11th of June, 1824 : on a motion of Henry Brougham, Esq. respecting the trial and condemnation to death by a court martial of the Rev. John Smith, late missionary in the colony of Demerara. With a preface containing some new facts illustrative of the subject. (Printed by Ellerton & Henderson, 1824), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons and London Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at HathiTrust