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• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Anthony Burns, a history (J.P. Jewett and Co., 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of the committee appointed by a public meeting, held at Faneuil hall, September 24, 1846, for the purpose of considering the recent case of kidnapping from our soil, and of taking measures to prevent the recurrence of similar outrages : with an appendix. (White & Potter, printers, 1846), by Boston (Mass.). Citizens and S. G. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the proceedings at the examination of Charles G. Davis. (White & Potter, Printers, 1851), by Charles G. Davis, United States. Circuit Court (Massachusetts), and United States. District Court (Massachusetts) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of fugitive-slave law days in Boston (Printed by Warren Richardson, 1880), by Austin Bearse (page images at HathiTrust)

• United States vs. Charles G. Davis: Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., On a Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave, by Charles G. Davis (page images at MOA)
• Boston slave riot and trial of Anthony Burns. (Fetridge and Co., 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the proceedings at the examination of Charles G. Davis. (White & Potter, Printers, 1851), by Charles G. Davis, United States. Circuit Court (Massachusetts), and United States. District Court (Massachusetts) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave: Held in Boston, in February, 1851., by Charles G. Davis and United States. Circuit Court (Massachusetts) (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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 Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (Boston: G. W. Light; New York: Moore and Payne, 1834), by B. B. Thatcher (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)

• 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)
• 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)

• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (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)

• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852 : comprising historical gleanings illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions (J. P. Jewett and company, 1852), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Samuel Gardner Drake : his life-work and his library. (s.n., 1876), by S. A. D. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of the Cardinal de Cheverus, Archbishop of Bordeaux (Hooker & Cloxton, 1839), by M. Hamon and Robert M. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samuel Gardner Drake : his life-work and his library. (s.n., 1876), by S. A. D. (page images at HathiTrust)

• The aristocracy of Boston : who they are, and what they were : being a history of the business and business men of Boston, for the last forty years (The Author, 1848), by Thomas L. V. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samuel Billings Capen; his life and work (Pilgrim Press, 1914), by Chauncey J. Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Joseph Coolidge Shaw : Boston yankee, Jesuit, early Boston College patron (Boston College, 1990), by Charles F. Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of Mary Lothrop : who died in Boston, March 18, 1831, aged six years and three months. (Perkins and Marvin : Lincoln and Edmands : and James Loring, 1832), by Elias James Whitney, James Loring, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, Lincoln & Edmands, and Perkins & Marvin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of Rev. Hosea Ballou : with accounts of his writings, and biographical sketches of his seniors and contemporaries in the Universalist ministry (J.M. Usher, 1854), by Thomas Whittemore, James M. Usher, and Hobart and Robbins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Address upon the retirement of Dr. William E. Huntington from the presidency of Boston University (The Author?, 1911), by James Geddes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fulton of Fulton Hall (Boston College, 1995), by Charles F. Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The famous Mather Byles the noted Boston Tory preacher, poet, and wit 1707-1788 (W.A. Butterfield, 1914), by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samuel Billings Capen; his life and work (Pilgrim Press, 1914), by Chauncey J. Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and character of Miss Anne Clay (Crocker and Brewster, 1844), by Charles Colcock Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial of Dorus Clarke (Privately printed, 1885), by Samuel Edward Herrick and Henry Allen Hazen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Publications of the Bostonian Society. (Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1884), by William Henry Whitmore, Abel Bowen, and Bostonian Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of William Hickling Prescott : historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru (David Clapp and Son, printers, 1868), by Charles Henry Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

• The promised land (Houghton Mifflin, 1912), by Mary Antin (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Dorman Mahoone alis Mathews" : an early Boston Irishman. (s.n., 1916), by John Henry Edmonds and Bostonian Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Dorman Mahoone alis Mathews" : an early Boston Irishman. (s.n., 1916), by John Henry Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Dorman Mahoone alis Mathews" : an early Boston Irishman. (s.n., 1916), by John Henry Edmonds and Bostonian Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Joseph Coolidge Shaw : Boston yankee, Jesuit, early Boston College patron (Boston College, 1990), by Charles F. Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rev. Charles F. Donovan, SJ, 1912-1998 (Boston College], 2000), by Thomas H. O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The promised land (Houghton Mifflin, 1912), by Mary Antin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Harvey Humphrey Baker, upbuilder of the juvenile court (Judge Baker Foundation, 1920), by Judge Baker Guidance Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of Frederick David Ely (Merrymount Press, 1923), by Rogers Memorial Collection, Merrymount Press, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and Norfolk County Bar Association (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Samuel Eliot (1869), by Anna Ticknor
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• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents in his life. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1856), by Amos Lawrence and William Richards Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The good parishioner, a discourse occasioned by the death of Benjamin Rich, Esq. : delivered in the Church on Church Green, June 8, 1851 (Printed by John Wilson & Son, 1851), by Alexander Young and Mass.) New South Church (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence : with a brief account of some incidents in his life. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1855), by Amos Lawrence and William Richards Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal reminiscences (R.B. Forbes, 1876), by R. B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall market (Lee and Shepard, 1901), by A. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Other merchants and sea captains of old Boston : being more information about the merchants and sea captains of old Boston who played such an important part in building up the commerce of New England, together with some quaint and curious stories of the sea. (State Street Trust Co., 1919), by Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography (Little, Brown, and Company, 1882), by R. B. Forbes, John Wilson and Son, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life, by Amos Lawrence, ed. by William R. Lawrence (Gutenberg ebook)

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