Enslaved women
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Enslaved women -- Algeria
- Enslaved women -- Fiction
- Enslaved women -- Maine
- Enslaved women -- Massachusetts
- Enslaved women -- Medical care
- Enslaved women -- Missouri
- Enslaved women -- Monuments
- Enslaved women -- South Carolina
- Enslaved women -- Southern States
- Enslaved women -- Tennessee
- Enslaved women -- United States
- Enslaved women -- Washington Region
- Women, Enslaved
- Women slaves
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History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Maria Martin: Who Was Six Years a Slave in Algiers, Two of Which She Was Confined in a Dark and Dismal Dungeon, Loaded With Irons for Refusing to Comply with the Brutal Request of a Turkish Officer (revised version of 1806 book (itself based on Velnet and Chetwood accounts); with a history and description of Algiers appended; Boston: Printed for W. Crary, 1807), by Maria Martin
- Autobiography of a Female Slave (New York: Redfield, 1857), by Martha Griffith Browne (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Witches of Karres (included on a Baen CD image), by James H. Schmitz, ed. by Eric Flint
- Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children": or, Holiday-Week on a Louisiana Estate (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Week With the American Slaves (previously published as "Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation Children"; London: Beadle and Co., 1863), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
- Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
- Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)
- Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs (ca. 1850), by Mrs. T. C. Upham (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs (ca. 1850), by Mrs. T. C. Upham (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c2017), by Deirdre Benia Cooper Owens (PDF at OAPEN)
- From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
- A Monument in Commemoration of the Faithful Colored Mammies of the South: Speech of Hon. Charles M. Stedman of North Carolina on H.R. 13672 in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1923 (Washington: GPO, 1923), by Charles Manly Stedman
- Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave (attributed to Matthews by Susanna Ashton; serialized in The Emancipator, 1838), ed. by Joshua Leavitt, contrib. by James Matthews (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, 1897), by Nina Hill Robinson (HTML and TEI 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)
- 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
- Life of Mary F. McCray, Born and Raised a Slave in the State of Kentucky (1898), by S. J. McCray (illustrated HTML and TEI 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)
- 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
- The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots (as originally published in The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 1855), by John S. Jacobs
- Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
- Out of the Depths: or, The Trumph of the Cross (1927), by Nellie Arnold Plummer (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Enslaved persons -- Biography- Life of Rev. Thomas James, by Himself (Rochester, NY: Post Express Printing Co., 1886), by Thomas James (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life, Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855), by Matilda G. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
- Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
- Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
- 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)
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (originally published 1798), by Venture Smith (Gutenberg text)
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America: Related by Himself (New London, CT: Printed by C. Holt, 1798), by Venture Smith
- A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (Middletown, CT: J. S. Stewart, 1897), by Venture Smith, ed. by H. M. Selden (HTML and TEI with commentary 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 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman (New York: D. Fanshaw, 1828), by T. H. Gallaudet (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years (tract #96; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, ca. 1866), by G. L. Foster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- Blake: or, The Huts of America, by Martin Robison Delany (HTML at Virginia)
- Bond and Free: A True Tale of Slave Times (Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1886), by Jas. H. W. Howard
- Leah Mordecai: A Novel, by Belle K. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
- The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans (3 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1790), by Joseph Lavallée, trans. by Joseph Trapp (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans, Translated From the French; To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining by Phillis Wheatley (2 volumes; Philadelphia: W. W. Woodward, 1801), by Joseph Lavallée and Phillis Wheatley
- The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852), by Caroline E. Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
- Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
- Oheim Tom's Hütte: oder, Das Leven bei den Niedrigen (Uncle Tom's Cabin in German; Boston: J. P. Jewett und Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, und Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Hugo Rudolph Hutten
- Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen From Africa and Sold Into Slavery: Related by Themselves (Manchester England: Wm. Irwin; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
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