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• Man-of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy, During a Voyage Around the World, in a Ship of the Line (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1855), by Charles Nordhoff
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated 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 Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• The Log of the Snark (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• Scarcity of Seamen (second edition; Boston: Press of J. Howe, ca. 1854), by Thomas V. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Board the USS Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James A. Dunn, ed. by Mansel G. Blackford, contrib. by John S. Butler (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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)

• Maritime: A Historical Sketch and a Workers' Program (second edition; New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1945), by Frederick J. Lang, ed. by Terence Phelan (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of American Merchant Seamen (Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1956), by Elmo Paul Hohman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Point Gorda Strike (New York: Marine Workers Industrial Union, ca. 1932), by George Clark (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• Seaman's Rights in the U.S. When Involved in an Accident (in 8 languages; Miami: I. Adels, c1989), by Charles R. Lipcon (PDF with commentary at lipcon.com)

• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts (Providence: Printed for H. Trumbull, 1829), by Henry Trumbull and Robert Voorhis (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• A Sailor Boy's Experience Aboard a Slave Ship (originally published 1867; reprinted (without apparent alterations) 1996), by Samuel Robinson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Recollections of a Naval Life, Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers "Sumter" and "Alabama", by John McIntosh Kell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by James Morris Morgan
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Notes by the Way in a Sailor's Life, by Arthur E. Knights (Gutenberg text)

• The Lieutenant and Commander: Being Autobiographical Sketches of His Own Career, From Fragments of Voyages and Travels (London: Bell and Daldy, 1862), by Basil Hall (Gutenberg text)
• Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, Commander R.N. (1775-1814) (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1906), by James Anthony Gardner, ed. by R. Vesey Hamilton and John Knox Laughton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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 Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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