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• Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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• The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (2 volume 1808 edition), by Thomas Clarkson
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (1839), by Thomas Clarkson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Case of the Vigilante, a Ship Employed in The Slave-Trade; With Some Reflections on That Traffic (London: Printed by Harvey, Darton, and Co., 1823), by London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered Before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, and 1791, on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade (London: Printed by J. Phillips, 1791) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Opening of the Case in Support of the Petitions of the Merchants of London and Liverpool, Against the Bill "To Prohibit the Trading for Slaves on the Coast of Africa Within Certain Limits" (ca. 1799), by Edward Law Ellenborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Speech of William Wilberforce, Esq., Representative for the County of York, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade; To Which Are Added, the Resolutions Then Moved, and a Short Sketch of the Speeches of the Other Members (London: Printed at the Logographic Press and sold by J. Walter et al., ca. 1789), by William Wilberforce
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (London, 1787), by Ottobah Cugoano
  • HTML at ECCO TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe (second edition; London: Printed for W. Reeve, G. Woodfall, and J. Barnes, 1750) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by Ann Yearsley (HTML at brycchancarey.com)

• A Poem on the African Slave Trade: Addressed to Her Own Sex (two parts; Dublin: J. Jones, 1792), by M. Birket
  • Part I (second edition): HTML at brycchancarey.com
  • Part II: HTML at brycchancarey.com

• The Sorrows of Yamba, or The Negro Woman's Lamentation (London: J. Marshall et al., 1797), contrib. by Hannah More and Eaglesfield Smith (HTML with commentary at brycchancarey.com)

• Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, by William Lisle Bowles (HTML here at Penn)

• The Splendid Village; Corn Law Rhymes; and Other Poems (London: B. Steill, 1833), by Ebenezer Elliott
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• More Songs of the Glens of Antrim (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1921), by Moira O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Songs of the Glens of Antrim (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1901), by Moira O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Songs of the Glens of Antrim (New York: Macmillan, 1907), by Moira O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Songs of the Glens of Antrim, and More songs of the Glens of Antrim (New York: Macmillan, 1922), by Moira O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Scottish Selection: Poems (Kirkcaldy : Akros, 1998), by Tessa Ransford (PDF with commentary at wisdomfield.com)
• Blue Bells of Scotland (New York and London: White and Allen, c1889), by Anne MacVicar Grant, illust. by Frank M. Gregory
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poems, Scots and English (fourth impression; London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, ltd., ca. 1919), by John Buchan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Scottish Ballad Poetry (Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1893), ed. by George Eyre-Todd (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Ancient Scottish Poems: The Gaberlunzie-Man, and Christ's Kirk on the Green; With Notes and Observations (Edinburgh: J. Robertson, 1782), by King of Scotland James V, ed. by John Callander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris; With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c. (EETS original series #42; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1870), by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Scottish Poetry: Thomas the Rhymer; John Barbour; Androw of Wyntoun; Henry the Minstrel (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; London and Edinburgh: Sands and Co., ca. 1891), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by Thomas the Rhymer, John Barbour, Androw of Wyntoun, and Blind Hary (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mediaeval Scottish Poetry: King James the First; Robert Henryson; William Dunbar; Gavin Douglas (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1892), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by King of Scotland James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gawin Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Original Collection of the Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin, and Other Bards Who Flourished in the Same Age (Montrose, Scotland: Printed by J. Watt, 1816), by Hugh M'Callum and John M'Callum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (2 volumes; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1896), ed. by George Eyre-Todd
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Scottish Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Sir Robert Aytoun; Sir David Murray; Sir Robert Ker; Sir William Alexander; William Drummond; The Marquis of Montrose; The Semples of Beltrees (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1895), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by Robert Ayton, David Murray, Robert Ker, William Alexander Stirling, William Drummond, James Graham Montrose, James Sempill, Robert Sempill, and Francis Sempill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century: Sir David Lyndsay; John Bellenden; King James the Fifth; Sir Richard Maitland; Alexander Scot; Alexander Montgomerie (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1892), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by David Lindsay, John Bellenden, King of Scotland James V, Richard Maitland, Alexander Scott, and Alexander Montgomerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd (Centenary edition; London: Blackie and Son, 1874), by James Hogg, ed. by Thomas Thomson
  • Volume I (Tales and Sketches): page images at Google
  • Volume II (Poems and Life): page images at Google

• A Legend of Glencoe, and Other Poems (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857), by John Anderson (multiple formats at Google)

• The Poems of Laurence Minot, 1333-1352, by Laurence Minot, ed. by Richard H. Osberg (HTML at Rochester)

• In Hospital, by William Ernest Henley (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers (reprint of first edition of 1849), by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Emigrants, by Charlotte Smith (HTML at unl.edu)

• The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye: A Poem on the Use of Sea-Power, 1436 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926), ed. by George F. Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Splendid Village; Corn Law Rhymes; and Other Poems (London: B. Steill, 1833), by Ebenezer Elliott
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• History of England, in Verse, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1852), by Hannah Townsend (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Mirror for Magistrates, Edited From Original Texts in the Huntington library (1960 reprint of 1938 edition), ed. by Lily Bess Campbell, contrib. by William Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Naval Songs and Ballads (London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1908), ed. by C. H. Firth (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Absalom and Achitophel (based on the second edition, 1681), by John Dryden (HTML with commentary at Toronto)

• Medieval English Political Writings, ed. by James M. Dean (HTML at Rochester)

• The Regiment of Princes, by Thomas Hoccleve, ed. by Charles R. Blyth (HTML at Rochester)

• The Pilgrims of Hope; and Chants for Socialists, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Haydon: An Artist's Life, by Robert Peters (HTML at CAPA)

• The Testament of a Prime Minister (London: G. Richards, 1904), by John Davidson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791), by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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