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• 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)
• A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Jean McClure Mudge (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves; With an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; et al.,, 1856), by Benjamin Drew (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Companions, or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction: A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves (London: Edwards and Co., 1852), by John Passmore Edwards, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the subject of abolition petitions : delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1839. (Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1839), by Henry Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibelen eller den Heliga Skrift, innehällande Gamla och Nya Testamentets canoniska böcher. -- (Amerikanska Bibel Sällskapet, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The brothers' war (Little, Brown and Co., 1906), by John C. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Visit to the United States in 1841, by Joseph Sturge (Gutenberg ebook)

• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Eulogy of the late Hon. Wm. Jay : delivered on the invitation of the colored citizens of New York City, in Shiloh Presbyterian Church, New York, May 12, 1859 (A. Strong, 1859), by Frederick Douglass and N.Y.) Shiloh Presbyterian Church (N.Y. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of the Society of Friends : in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, on the African slave trade. (Joseph and William Kite, 1840), by Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Representative Meeting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frederick Douglass. (Small, Maynard, 1904), by Charles W. Chesnutt and J. H. Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frederick Douglass, by Booker T. Washington (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Visit to the United States in 1841, by Joseph Sturge (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822), by James Hamilton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1864), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (with an appendix summarizing Mars's life after liberation; Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839, by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (New York: Harper and brothers, 1863), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. ("The Black Spurgeon"), Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City (Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902), by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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)
• Life of Dr. Walker (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Silas Xavier Floyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D.: ("The Black Spurgeon") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City, by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (Gutenberg ebook)

• Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, c1955), by William H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary 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)
• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (New York: The author, 1849), by Henry Bibb, contrib. by Lucius C. Matlack
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (third stereotype edition; New York: The author, 1850), by Henry Bibb, contrib. by Lucius C. Matlack
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America (Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845), by Lewis Garrard Clarke (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, During a Captivity of More than Twenty Years Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, One of the So-Called Christian States of North America (Boston: B. Marsh, 1846), by Lewis Garrard Clarke and Milton Clarke (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery Days in Old Kentucky: A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children, By One of the Children (Ogdensburg, NY: Republican and Journal Print, 1901), by Isaac Johnson (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)
• Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848, by J. D. Green (Gutenberg ebook)

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