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• Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 (Boston: James Loring, 1832), by Rebecca Warren Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
• Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (Boston: Fetridge and Co., 1854) (page images at MOA)

• Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, by Boston Female Anti-slavery Society (partial serial archives)

• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• United States vs. Charles G. Davis: Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., On a Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave, by Charles G. Davis (page images at MOA)

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

• The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial (1700), by Samuel Sewall (PDF at unl.edu)

• The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man, Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 10, 1768, For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe (1768), by Arthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (Boston: Fetridge and Co., 1854) (page images at MOA)
• Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856), by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life, Last Words and Dying Speech of Stephen Smith, a Black Man, Who Was Executed at Boston This Day Being Thursday, October 12, 1797 for Burglary (1797), by Stephen Smith (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Case of The Slave-Child, Med: Report of the Arguments of Counsel, and of the Opinion of the Court in the Case of Commonwealth vs. Aves, Tried and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (Boston: I. Knapp, 1836), contrib. by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and text at Library of Congress

• Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston: Being a Collection of Sketches of Notable Men and Mercantile Houses Prominent During the Early Half of the Nineteenth Century in the Commerce and Shipping of Boston (c1918), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Loyolas and the Cabots, by Catherine Goddard Clarke (HTML with commentary at catholicism.org)

• The Book of Boston (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. 1916), by Robert Shackleton, illust. by R. L. Boyer (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)
• Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Random Notes of Boston (ca.1913), by Henry Payson Dowst, illust. by John Albert Seaford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (multiple editions)
• Streets of Night (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1923), by John Dos Passos (Gutenberg text)
• Wickford Point (c1939), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• A Modern Instance, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• A Chance Acquaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Thinking Machine: Being a True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries Which Came Under the Observation of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., Etc. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (without frontispiece; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boston: A Guide Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903), by Edwin M. Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Boston Illustrated (ca.1891), by Edwin M. Bacon (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Stranger's New Guide Through Boston and Vicinity (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1869)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors (1917), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• A History of East Boston, With Biographical Sketches of its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1858), by William H. Sumner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Literary Boston of To-Day (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by Helen M. Winslow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Literary Boston of To-Day (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by Helen M. Winslow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Old-Fashioned Girl (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Motion Picture Chums' New Idea: or, The First Educational Photo Playhouse (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Boston Phoenix (full serial archives)
• Boston Evening Transcript (partial serial archives)
• The Boston Satirist (full serial archives)
• Publick Occurrences (only issue of the first multi-page newspaper in the US, 1690, as reprinted with commentary on its suppression, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courier de Boston (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Liberator (US abolitionist newspaper, 1831-1865), ed. by William Lloyd Garrison (full serial archives)

• The Boston News-Letter, and City Record (partial serial archives)
• The City Record, and Boston News-Letter (full serial archives)

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