Slavery -- Poetry
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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
- "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.
Filed under: Slavery- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Africa: Slave or Free? (London: Student Christian Movement, 1919), by John H. Harris, contrib. by Sydney Haldane Olivier Olivier
- 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)
- Codrington Chronicle: An Experiment in Anglican Altruism on a Barbados Plantation, 1710-1834 (University of California Publications in History v37; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949), ed. by Frank J. Klingberg (bound with v36; page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Domestic Slavery in its Relations with Wealth: An Oration Pronounced in the Cuban Democratic Athenauem of New York, On the Evening of the 1st of January, 1854 (New York: W. H. Tinson, 1855), by Lorenzo Allo
- A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907), by Hubert H. S. Aimes
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