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• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Life and History of William O'Neal; or, The Man Who Sold His Wife (St. Louis: A.R. Fleming, 1896), by William O'Neal (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of My Girlhood, by Eliza Ripley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853 (fifth thousand; Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, et al., 1853), by Solomon Northup
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Master's House: A Tale of Southern Life (New York: T. L. McElrath and Co., 1854), by Thomas Bangs Thorpe (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• The 1619 Project (special issue of The New York Times Magazine, with supplementary materials; 2019), ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (PDF with commentary at pulitzercenter.org)
• Slavery and Justice: Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (2006), by Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice (PDF with commentary at Brown)
• African Slavery in America (Philadelphia: T. K. and P. G. Collins, printers, 1856), by Charles Jared Ingersoll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #374, 5 volumes, 1926-1937), ed. by Helen Tunnicliff Catterall and James J. Hayden, contrib. by David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Experience in America, by Norman Coombs (Gutenberg text)
• A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party (New York: E. J. Hale and Co., 1867), by Robert Lewis Dabney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers and as Citizens, Together With a Preliminary Consideration of The Unity of The Human Family, an Historical Sketch of Africa, and an Account of The Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia (2 volumes; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), by George Washington Williams
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and page images
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America; To Which Is Prefixed An Historical Sketch of Slavery ("volume 1" only volume published; Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson; Savannah, GA: W. Thorne Williams, 1858), by Thomas Read Rootes Cobb (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery (2 volumes; New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1909), by Booker T. Washington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States, Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia (1921), by Benjamin Brawley (Gutenberg text)
• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (London: Partridge & Oakey, 1854), ed. by H. G. Adams (HTML and TEI 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 Negro as a Political Problem: Oration by the Hon. George W. Williams of Massachusetts at the Asbury Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1884 (Boston: A. Mudge and Son, printers, 1884), by George Washington Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Samuel Hall, 47 Years a Slave: A Brief Story of His Life Before and After Freedom Came to Him (Washington, IA: Journal Print, 1912), by Samuel Hall, ed. by Orville Elder (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery and anti-slavery; a history of the great struggle in both hemispheres; with a view of the slavery question in the United States. (New York, W. Goodell, 1855), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary history of slavery in the United States. By a native of Maryland. (Washington, Printed by J. T. Towers, 1851), by John Larkin Dorsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the impropriety and inexpediency of renewing the Missouri question / by a Pennsylvanian. (Philadelphia : M. Carey & son, 1820), by Pennsylvanian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Constitution of the United States, with the acts of Congress, relating to slavery, embracing, the Constitution, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, the Missouri Compromise Act of 1820, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, carefully compiled. (Rochester, D. M. Dewey, [1854]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• ..."Lest we forget" / by William R. Hodges. (Saint Louis : Woodward & Tiernan, [1912]), by William Romaine Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern. (Columbus, Ohio, H. Miller, 1860), by William O. Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The political history of slavery in the United States ... (New York, The Neale publishing company, 1915), by James Zachariah George (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pulpit politics. (Cincinnati, Farran & McLean, 1863), by David Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts for the People of the Free States, by American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (Gutenberg ebook)
• American Dangers and Duties, by A. D. Mayo (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery: Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860, by Joseph K. Edgerton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement, by George Spring Merriam (Gutenberg ebook)
• Orjien vapauttaminen Pohjois-Amerikassa (in Finnish), by Alexandra Gripenberg (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers. (Boston, Printed by J. Wilson and son, 1862), by George Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• A Visit to the United States in 1841, by Joseph Sturge (Gutenberg ebook)

• Slavery Era Insurance Registry, by California Department of Insurance (HTML and PDF at insurance.ca.gov)

• Nebraska and Kansas : speech of Hon. Charles W. Upham, of Mass., in the House of Representatives, May 10, 1854. ([Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1854]), by Charles Wentworth Upham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm, by Jesse Macy (Gutenberg text)
• God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (London: Partridge & Oakey, 1854), ed. by H. G. Adams (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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