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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
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• 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
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• The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots (as originally published in The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 1855), by John S. Jacobs
  • Part 1: page images at Trove
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• Slaveholding in North Carolina ; an economic view (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina press, 1926., 1926), by Rosser H. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground railroad : being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave, with the stories of numerous fugitives, who gained their freedom through his instrumentality, and many other incidents. (R. Clarke & Co., 1880), by Levi Coffin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-slavery leaders of North Carolina (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1898), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carolinas and Georgia (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1896), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way to freedom. A narrative of the slave-life and purchase of the mother of Rev. Isaac Williams, of Detroit, Michigan ... (American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1862), by American Reform Tract and Book Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and pamphlets on antislavery. (Negro Universities Press, 1970) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a refugee slave (E. Anthony & Sons, printers, 67 Union Street, 1871), by Thomas H. Jones, Mass.) E. Anthony & Sons (New Bedford, and Taylor & Adams (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. (Hall & Dickson; [etc., etc.], 1847), by Julius Melbourn and Jabez D. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experience of Thomas H. Jones : who was a slave for forty-three years (Printed by H.J. Howland, 1857), by Thomas H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experience of Thomas H. Jones : who was a slave for forty-three years (1862), by Thomas H. Jones, Randall K. Burkett, Bazin and Chandler, and Taylor & Adams (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. (Hall & Dickson; [etc., etc.], 1847), by Julius Melbourn and Jabez D. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experience of Thomas H. Jones : who was a slave for forty-three years (Printed by Bazin & Chandler ..., 1862), by Thomas H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a slave for forty-three years (AMS Press, 1975), by Thomas H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The institution of slavery in the Southern States : religiously and morally considered in connection with our sectional troubles (H. Polkinhorn, Printer, 1863), by Bryan Tyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Sally; or, The cross the way to freedom. (American reform tract and book society, 1862), by Cincinnati American reform tract and book society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of some of the proceedings of North Carolina Yearly Meeting on the subject of slavery within its limits. (published by order of the Meeting for Sufferings of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, 1848), by North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends (1698- ) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave life of Rev. L.R. Ferebee (Edwards, Broughton, Printers, 1882), by L. R. Ferebee and Broughton & Co Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life of Moses Grandy : late a slave in the United States of America. (Gilpin, 1843), by Moses Grandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Sally (American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by American Reform Tract and Book Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anti-slavery leaders of North Carolina. (Johnson Reprint Corp., 1973), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• From log cabin to the pulpit : or fifteen years in slavery (W.H. Robinson, 1913), by William H. Robinson and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures and escape of Moses Roper (London : Harvey and Darton, 1843., 1843), by Moses Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life of Moses Grandy, formerly a slave in the United States of America. (Oliver Johnson, 25 Cornhill, 1844), by Moses Grandy, Oliver Johnson, and George Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in the State of North Carolina. (AMS Press, 1972), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Published for the author and printed at the Warder Office, 1848), by Moses Roper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Webster (s.n., 1850), by Henry W. Miller and A. W. Venable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech in defence of the South against the aggressive movement of the North (Gideon & Co., printers, 1850), by T. L. Clingman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech against receiving, referring, or reporting on abolition petitions (Blair & Rives, 1844), by Romulus M. Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message from His Excellency, Gov. David S. Reid, transmitting a communication from Maryland, and resolutions from Vermont (Thos J. Lemay, Printer to the State, 1851), by North Carolina. Governor (1851-1854 : Reid), Thomas Jefferson Lemay, Vermont. General Assembly, and Maryland. Constitutional Convention (1850-1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in the State of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Press, 1899), by John Spencer Bassett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Supreme court of North Carolina and slavery (Duke University Press, 1927), by Bryce Roswell Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1, by United States. Work Projects Administration (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America, by Moses Grandy (Gutenberg ebook)

• An address to the people of North Carolina, on the evils of slavery. ([Greensborough, N.C.] : William Swaim printer, Greensborough, N.C., 1830., 1830), by Manumission Society of North Carolina, William Swaim, and Amos Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
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• My southern friends ... (Carleton, 1863), by James R. Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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)
• Life of George M. Horton, the colored bard of North-Carolina (Printed by D. Heartt, 1845), by George Moses Horton and Dennis Heartt (page images at HathiTrust)

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