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• Christmas, and Poems on Slavery, for Christmas, 1843 (Cambridge, MA: Pub. by the author for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1843), by Thomas Hill (multiple formats at Google)
• Poems in Sunshine and Firelight (Cincinnati: R. W. Carroll and Co., 1866), by John James Piatt (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Poems on Slavery (London: Egertons, Murray, and Johnson, 1788), by Maria Falconar and Harriet Falconar (HTML at brycchancarey.com)
• Slavery: A Poem (London: T. Cadell, 1788), by Hannah More (HTML at brycchancarey.com)
• Slavery: A Poem, in Five Cantos; The Artisan; and Other Poems (London: James Martin, 1850), by Edmund H. White (multiple formats at Google)
• 1970: A Vision of the Coming Age (Burlington, NJ: Enterprise Print., 1870), by John Collins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• "1970": A Vision of the Coming Age (Philadelphia, 1896), by John Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Struggles for Freedom: or, The Life of James Watkins, Formerly a Slave in Maryland, U. S.; in Which is Detailed a Graphic Account of His Extraordinary Escape from Slavery, Notices of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Sentiments of American Divines on the Subject of Slavery, etc., etc. (19th edition; Manchester, UK: Printed for J. Watkins by A. Heywood, 1860), by James Watkins (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated (London: Thomas Ward and Co., 1840), by Juan Francisco Manzano, trans. by Richard Robert Madden (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• 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)

• 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)

• Sunlight Upon the Landscape, and Other Poems (Cincinnati: Moore, Anderson, Wilstach and Keys, 1853), by A Daughter of Kentucky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Voices From Slavery: Written on Hearing a Paper by Joseph Sturge on the Aggravated Horrors of the Slave-Trade, Oct. 1848, by Leeds Anti-Slavery Association (multiple formats with commentary at Wayback Machine)

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

• A Dissertation on Slavery, With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, in the State of Virginia (Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, 1796), by St. George Tucker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Results of Emancipation (Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1863), by Augustin Cochin, trans. by Mary L. Booth (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Results of Slavery (Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1863), by Augustin Cochin, trans. by Mary L. Booth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery, From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century (New York: W. I. Pooley and Co., c1864), by John Henry Hopkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished, by Henry Charles Carey (Gutenberg text)
• Slavery (Boston: J. Munroe and Co., 1835), by William Ellery Channing
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Slavery (second edition, revised; Boston: J. Munroe and Co., 1836), by William Ellery Channing (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Slavery (fourth edition, revised; Boston: J. Munroe and Co., 1836), by William Ellery Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons, by John Fletcher (page images at MOA)

• The Captives: By James Leander Cathcart, Eleven Years a Prisoner in Algiers (LaPorte, IN: Herald print, c1899), by James L. Cathcart, ed. by Jane Bancker Cathcart Newkirk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815 (New York: T. and W. Mercein, 1817), by James Riley, ed. by Anthony Bleecker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815 (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1859), by James Riley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historic Sketches of the South (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914), by Emma Langdon Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, by James Williams (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Eben-Ezer: or, A Small Monument of Great Mercy (London: Printed for N. Ponder, 1675), by William Okeley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Panis: An Historical Outline of Canadian Indian Slavery in the Eighteenth Century, by James Cleland Hamilton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Slavery in China During the Former Han dynasty, 206 B.C.-A.D. 25 (anthropological series v34; Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1943), by C. Martin Wilbur (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bokwala: The Story of a Congo Victim (London: Religious Tract Society, 1910), by A Congo Resident, contrib. by H. Grattan Guinness (multiple formats at archive.org)

• History of Slavery in Connecticut (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1893), by Bernard C. Steiner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Christian Slave: A Drama Founded Upon a Portion of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • HTML at Virginia
• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)

• Thoughts Upon Slavery (third edition; London: Printed by R. Hawes, 1774), by John Wesley
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • reprint: multiple formats at archive.org
• Thoughts Upon Slavery (Philadelphia: J. Cruikshank, stated date 1774), by John Wesley
  • HTML with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• Thoughts Upon Slavery (fifth edition; London: Printed by G. Paramore, 1792), by John Wesley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Considerations on Keeping Negroes, Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of Every Denomination, Part Second (Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1762), by John Woolman (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of Every Denomination (Philadelphia: J. Chattin, 1754), by John Woolman (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Some Historical Account of Guinea: Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of its Inhabitants, With an Inquiry Into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature, and Lamentable Effects (London, reprinted 1772), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
• The Address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury, in the County of Glocester, and State of New Jersey, on Saturday the 8th Day of July Last, To the People of Colour; To Which Is Added His Dying Confession or Declaration; Also, a Copy of a Letter to His Wife, Written the Day Previous to His Execution (Philadelphia: The Purchasers, 1797), by Abraham Johnstone (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)

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