Freed persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Children of the Slaves (London: Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Stephen Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, (Widow of the late James W. Stewart), Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass. (reprint, 1879), by Maria W. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
- Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, (Widow of the late James W. Stewart), Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass. (Washington: Enterprise Pub. Co., 1879), by Maria W. Stewart (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
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Filed under: Freed persons -- United States -- Biography- The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. (second edition; Boston: J. G. Torrey, printer, 1842), by Lunsford Lane
- 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
- 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
- Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle (1918), by Peter Bruner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (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)
- My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (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
- 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)
- Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- 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)
- Lunsford Lane: or, Another Helper from North Carolina (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863), by William G. Hawkins
- My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Bondage and My Freedom (c1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith
- A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man): Giving an Account of His Birth; The Period He Was Held in Slavery; His Release, and Removal to Canada, etc; Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad (Toronto: Smallwood; James Stephens, 1851), by Thomas Smallwood (HTML and TEI with commentary 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)
- Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes
- Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (Milwaykee: South Side Printing Co., 1897), by Louis Hughes (Gutenberg text and Librivox Audio)
- A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, A Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary (1859), by G. W. Offley (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)
- Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, Md., and Selections in Prose and Verse (Philadelphia: Press of Innes & Son, 1897), by Sarah R. Levering
- The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth; London: C. Gilpin, 1851), by William J. Allinson
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Out of the Ditch: A True Story of an Ex-Slave (Houston: Rein and Sons Co., printers, 1910), by J. Vance Lewis (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
- Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)
- A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
- Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
- Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The True Life of Billy the Kid (originally printed 1881; Happy Hours Brotherhood reprint #5 with commentary, c1945), by Don Jenardo, contrib. by Jeff Dykes
- The True Life of Billy the Kid (Five Cent Wide Awake Library #451; New York: F. Tousey, 1881), by Don Jenardo (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)
- Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
- Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
- Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
- The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
- The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
- Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
- Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
- Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
- Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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