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• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots (as originally published in The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 1855), by John S. Jacobs
  • Part 1: page images at Trove
  • Part 2: page images at Trove
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery; With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter (Berwick-upon-Tweed, England: Pub. for the author, 1848), by Moses Roper (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of a refugee slave (E. Anthony & Sons, printers, 67 Union Street, 1871), by Thomas H. Jones, Mass.) E. Anthony & Sons (New Bedford, and Taylor & Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Report of the Commissioners, Minutes of The Evidence, and Appendix, with General Index of Minutes of Evidence and Appendix (London: G. E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1876), by Great Britain Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Josiah Henson, formerly a slave, now an inhabitant of Canada (Boston : Arthur D. Phelps, 1849., 1849), by Josiah Henson and Samuel Atkins Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man with the branded hand : an authentic sketch of the life and services of Capt. Jonathan Walker ([Rochester, New York] : [publisher not identified], 1899., 1899), by Frank Edward Kittredge and N.Y.) H.L. Wilson Printing Company (Rochester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Western Reserve and the fugitive slave law : a prelude to the Civil War. ([s.n.], 1920), by William C. Cochran (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new crime against humanity : a sermon preached at the Music Hall, in Boston, on Sunday, June 4, 1854 : with the lesson of the day for the previous Sunday (B.B. Mussey, 1854), by Theodore Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro's flight from American slavery to British freedom (London : John Snow, 1849., 1849), by George Thompson, John Snow, Tyler & Reed (Firm: London), and New York Committee of Vigilance (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of fugitive-slave law days in Boston (Printed by Warren Richardson, 1880), by Austin Bearse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huckleberry Finn (Harper & Brothers, 1923), by Mark Twain, Marguerite Jenison Pease, Worth Brehm, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro life in the slave states of America (Clarke, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Onkel Toms stuga : en skildring af de förtrycktes lif (Hemlandets, 1902), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American citizen. A discourse on the nature and extent of our religious subjection to the government under which we live: including an inquiry into the Scriptural authority of the provision of the Constitution of the United States, which requires the surrender of fugitive slaves. Delivered in the Rutgers street Presbyterian church, in the city of New York ... December 12, 1850 ... (C. Scribner, 1851), by John M. Krebs and Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery pamphlet collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• The refugee: or the narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada ... (John P. Jewett & Co., 1856), by Benjamin Drew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin. (Dodd, Mead, 1952), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Including His Escape and Struggle for Liberty, of Charles A. Garlick, Born a Slave in Old Virginia, Who Secured His Freedom by Running Away from His Master's Farm in 1843 (Jefferson, OH: J. A. Howells and Co., 1902), by Charles A. Garlick (illustrated 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)
• Chains and Freedom: or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross (New York: E. S. Arnold and Co., 1839), by Peter Wheeler and C. Edwards Lester
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave: Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape, Written by Himself (Worcester, MA: John Thompson, 1856), by John Thompson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography of a fugitive negro his anti-slavery labors in the United States, Canada & England (J. Snow, 1855), by Samuel Ringgold Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West, by Austin Steward (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• The underground railroad from slavery to freedom (W. Tweedie ;, 1860), by W. M. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven ways of proving that Anderson should not be remanded. (Printed for the publisher, 1861), by George T. Denison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The refugees from slavery in Canada West report to the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission (s.n.], 1864), by S. G. Howe and United States. American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life and sufferings of Rev. Richard Warren (a fugitive slave) (s.n.], 1856), by Richard Warren (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Fugitives of the Pearl (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1930), by John H. Paynter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bond and Free: A True Tale of Slave Times (Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1886), by Jas. H. W. Howard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Yamboo: or, the North American Slave (3 volumes; London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1812), by Author of The Bravo of Bohemia (PDF at Chawton House Library)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (multiple editions)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
• Cudjo's Cave (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1864), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The white slave: or, Memoirs of a fugitive. A story of slave life in Virginia, etc. (Ingram, Cooke, 1852), by Richard Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred; a tale of the great Dismal swamp, together with Anti-slavery tales and papers, and Life in Florida after the war (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life among the lowly. (Nathaniel Cooke, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Luson Thomas, Thomas Robert Macquoid, George Housman Thomas, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers, and George Bayntun (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life among the lowly (World Pub. Co., 1900), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly (Houghton, Mifflin, 1891), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Whitman, and E. W. Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life among the lowly (T. Y. Crowell & company, 1897), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life among the lowly. (Houghton, Osgood and company, 1879), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and George Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the lowly (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1892), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin, or life among the lowly (R.F. Fenno & Co., 1899), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and R.F. Fenno & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• La case de l'Oncle Tom (Charpentier, libraire-e diteur, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louise Swanton-Belloc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dred; a tale of the great Dismal Swamp. (S. Low, Son & Co., 1856), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin : a picture of slave life in America (London ; New York : G. Routledge & Sons, [1891?], 1891), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Chester W. Topp, and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin (London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., [189-?], in the 1890s), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huckleberry Finn (Harper & Brothers, 1923), by Mark Twain, Marguerite Jenison Pease, Worth Brehm, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Onkel Toms stuga : en skildring af de förtrycktes lif (Hemlandets, 1902), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin. (Dodd, Mead, 1952), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Onkel Tom's Hütte : oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven. Band 3 (von 3). (in German), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by L. Du Bois (Gutenberg ebook)
• Huckleberry Finn kalandjai (in Hungarian), by Mark Twain, trans. by Jenő Rákosi, illust. by Tibor Pólya (Gutenberg ebook)
• Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Toms Hytte (in Norwegian), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by O. Flæten, illust. by Paul Steffensen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• La case de l'oncle Tom; ou, vie des nègres en Amérique (in French), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Louis Enault (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Tom's Hütte : oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven. Band 1 (von 3). (in German), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by L. Du Bois (Gutenberg ebook)
• Uncle Tom's cabin (London: Milner and Sowerby, 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, G Pearson, and Milner and Sowerby (page images at Florida)
• The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade) (New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1891), by Mark Twain, illust. by E. W. Kemble (page images at Florida)
• Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly (Chicago: Dominion Company, c1897), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Morris (page images at Florida)
• Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Negro life in the slave states of America (London: C.H. Clarke & Co., n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at Florida)

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