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• The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North Carolina, To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself (Hillsborough, NC: D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life, by L. R. Ferebee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Printed by D. Laing, Jr., 1850), by Thomas H. Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: or Fifteen Years in Slavery (third edition; Eau Claire, WI: J. H. Tifft, 1913), by William H. Robinson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America (London: C. Gilpin, 1843), by Moses Grandy (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 (extracted from the American Historical Review; Washington: American Historical Association, 1925), by Omar ibn Said, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Deeper Wrong: or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (London: W. Tweedie, 1862), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Boston: Published for the author, 1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• The Deeper Wrong: or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (London: W. Tweedie, 1862), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (Boston: Published for the author, 1861), by Harriet A. Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI 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)

• Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937), by Guion Griffis Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery; With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter (Berwick-upon-Tweed, England: Pub. for the author, 1848), by Moses Roper (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Days of Bondage: Autobiography of Friday Jones, Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery (Washington, D. C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883), by Friday Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. (second edition; Boston: J. G. Torrey, printer, 1842), by Lunsford Lane
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.: Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by Purchase of Himself and Family From Slavery, and His Banishment From the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin (third edition; Boston: Printed for the author by Hewes and Watson's Print., 1845), by Lunsford Lane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.: Embracing an Account of His Early Life, the Redemption by Purchase of Himself and Family From Slavery, and His Banishment From the Place of His Birth for the Crime of Wearing a Colored Skin (fourth edition; Boston: Printed for the author by Hewes and Watson's print., 1848), by Lunsford Lane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The History of My Life and Work: Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D. (Raleigh, NC et al: M. L. Latta, 1903), by M. L. Latta (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Lunsford Lane: or, Another Helper from North Carolina (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863), by William G. Hawkins
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; With Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen (Syracuse: Hall and Dickson, 1847), by Julius Melbourn, ed. by Jabez D. Hammond (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery; With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter (Berwick-upon-Tweed, England: Pub. for the author, 1848), by Moses Roper (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years: Written by a Friend, As Related to Him by Brother Jones (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony and Sons, 1885), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Experience of Thomas Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Printed by D. Laing, Jr., 1850), by Thomas H. Jones
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838), by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery; With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter (Berwick-upon-Tweed, England: Pub. for the author, 1848), by Moses Roper (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Patrol Regulations for the County of Rowan: Printed by Order of the County Court, at August Term, Anno Domini 1825 (Salisbury, NC: P. White, 1825), by Rowan County (N.C.)
  • HTML with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Anti-Slavery Alphabet (Philadelphia: Printed for the Anti-Slavery Fair, 1847), by Hannah Townsend and Mary Townsend (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont, by John Pierpont (HTML at Michigan)
• Chivalry, Slavery, and Young America (New York: F. A. Brady, 1866), by John Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Pantheon, or The Age of Black (New York: Rollo, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Night of Freedom: An Appeal, in Verse, Against the Great Crime of Our Country, Human Bondage! (Boston: S. Chism, 1857), by William Wallace Hebbard (multiple formats at Google)
• The Slave-Mother (1855), by John Collins, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at Wayback Machine)
• Slavery: A Poem (Concord, NH: McFarland and Jenks, 1856) (multiple formats at Wayback Machine)
• The Social Conflict of Ages: A Rhyme for the Time (Salem, MA, 1857) (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Thoughts on Slavery: A Poem (1854), by Lewis Stevens (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Sketches of Southern Life, by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (HTML at Virginia)
• The Hireling and the Slave, Chicora, and Other Poems (Charleston, SC: McCarter and Co., 1856), by William J. Grayson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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