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• The Freedmen's Book (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Lydia Maria Child
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Annual report 1870 (Govt. Print. Off, 1865), by Freedmen United States. Bureau of Refugees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven years among the freedmen (T.B. Arnold, 1890), by M. Waterbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 L. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A woman's life-work: labors and experiences. (Publishing Assn. of Friends, 1889), by Laura S. Haviland (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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., 1882), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Wm. D. Kelley of Pa. on freedmen's affairs : delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 23, 1864. (s.n., 1864), by William D. Kelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let there be light (Press of Commercial Printing House, 1863), by African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) and Mass.) Emancipation League (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The freedmen's book. (Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipated slave face to face with his old master. (Loyal Publication Society, 1864), by James Morrison MacKaye, James McKaye, Loyal Publication Society of New York, and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• La question des nègres et la reconstruction du Sud aux États-Unis (Impr. de J.G. Fick, 1866), by J. H. Serment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great North-western Fair for benefit of the North-Western Freedmen's Aid Commission. (Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding, Prts, 1863), by Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• A speech on the present duties and future destiny of the negro race, delivered Sept. 2, 1872. ([n.p., 1872), by Henry McNeal Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The washers and scrubbers. (printed by Juss & Detweiler, 1870), by F. Colburn Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscegenation or amalgamation : fate of the freedman (Printed at the office of "The Constitutional Union", 1864), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• After 50 years (Cincinnati, Ohio : Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, [1916?], 1916), by Mildred Coughlin, Ralph Welles Keeler, and Freedmen's Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• What ought to be done with the freedmen and with the rebels? : a sermon preached in the Berkeley-Street Church, Boston, on Sunday, April 23, 1865 (Nichols & Noyes, 1865), by Henry Martyn Dexter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve wise men and what they did for a race : schools of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church brought down to date. (Freedmen's Aid Society, 1916), by Freedmen's Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emancipated slave face to face with his old master (Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1864), by James McKaye and United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous women (Union Publishing House, 1894), by L. P. Brockett, Henry W. Bellows, and Mary C. Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freedmen's Bureau Preservation Act : are these Reconstruction era records being protected : hearing before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, October 18, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by Information United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Government Management (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. (second edition; Boston: J. G. Torrey, printer, 1842), by Lunsford Lane
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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
  • 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 New Man: Twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, by Henry Clay Bruce (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• The Freedman's Journal (Boston, 1865-1866) (full serial archives)
• The Freedmen's record (The Society, 1865), by New England Freedmen's Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semi-annual report on schools for freedmen (G.P.O., 1867), by Freedmen United States. Bureau of Refugees (page images at HathiTrust)

• Comte de Paris Civil War photograph album, 1861-1864. (1861), by Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans Paris, Egbert Guy Fox, and Mathew B. Brady (page images at HathiTrust)

• The annual report of the Presbyterian Committee of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. (The Committee, 1871), by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Committee of Missions for Freedmen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Danger of today (Cushings & Bailey, 1865), by John F. W. Ware (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Second report of a committee of the representatives of New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the condition and wants of the colored refugees. (s.n.], 1863), by New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (page images at HathiTrust)
• The "Negro question" (Philadelphia : Perkinpine & Higgins, 1864., 1864), by Joseph Parrish and Perkinpine & Higgins (page images at HathiTrust)

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