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• Slavery -- History -- 19th century
• Southern States -- History -- 19th century

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• Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century

• My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown and Co., 1880), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
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• Recollections of Slavery Times (Worcester, MA: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895), by Allen Parker (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
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• Recollections of slavery times (Chas. W. Burbank & Co., Printers, 1895), by Allen Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tupelo (State Journal Company, Printers, 1888), by John H. Aughey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Collapse of the Confederacy (Washington: Associated Publishers, 1937), by Charles H. Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Life and Sufferings of John Joseph, a Native of Ashantee, in Western Africa, Who Was Stolen from His Parents at the Age of 3 Years, and Sold to Mr. Johnstone, a Cotton Planter, in New Orleans, South America (Wellington: Printed for J. Joseph by J. Greedy, 1848), by John Joseph (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly (Houghton Mifflin, 1883), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un coup d'oeil dans La case de l'Oncle Tom (Société des livres religieux, 1881), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin : or, Life among the lowly (Houghton Mifflin and Company ;, 1889), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.O. Houghton & Company, Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge, and Mifflin and Company Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zhizn negrov v nevolʹnichikh shtatakh Si︠e︡vernoǐ Ameriki (Tip. Katkova, 1857), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
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• 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)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Social Relations in Our Southern States (New York: Henry B. Price, 1860), by Daniel R. Hundley (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver (reprint; originally published in the Journal of Negro History, 1927), by Zora Neale Hurston (Gutenberg text)
• The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Apologia perante o governo de Sua Magestade Fidelissima (Typ. Universal de Laemmert, 1862), by João Baptista Moreira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influence de l'esclavage et de la liberté (Imprimeur-Editeur Gustave Fischlin, 1893), by Domingos Jaguaribe and Oliveira Lima (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood and Co., 1864), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (with an appendix summarizing Mars's life after liberation; Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868), by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Bread, or Bullets! Urban Labor and Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, 1850-1898 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Joan Casanovas (page images at Pitt)

• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839, by Fanny Kemble (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 (New York: Harper and brothers, 1863), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D. ("The Black Spurgeon"), Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City (Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1902), by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of Dr. Walker (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Silas Xavier Floyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D.: ("The Black Spurgeon") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City, by Silas Xavier Floyd, contrib. by Robert Stuart MacArthur (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (London: Printed by J. Haddon and sold by W. Ball, ca. 1837), by James Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (London: Printed by J. Rider, ca. 1837), by James Williams
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• A narrative of events since the first of August, 1834 (J. Rider, 1837), by James Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, c1955), by William H. Townsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bond and Free: or, Yearnings for Freedom, From My Green Brier House: Being the Story of My Life in Bondage, and My Life in Freedom (Philadelphia: The Author, 1861), by Israel Campbell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William Henry Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life of the Rev. Elisha W. Green (Maysville, KY: Republican Printing Office, 1888), by Elisha Winfield Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (New York: The author, 1849), by Henry Bibb, contrib. by Lucius C. Matlack
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  • Gutenberg text and Librivox audio
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• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself (third stereotype edition; New York: The author, 1850), by Henry Bibb, contrib. by Lucius C. Matlack
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America (Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845), by Lewis Garrard Clarke (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, During a Captivity of More than Twenty Years Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, One of the So-Called Christian States of North America (Boston: B. Marsh, 1846), by Lewis Garrard Clarke and Milton Clarke (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery Days in Old Kentucky: A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children, By One of the Children (Ogdensburg, NY: Republican and Journal Print, 1901), by Isaac Johnson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom: Not Fiction, but the True Story of a Struggle (1918), by Peter Bruner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848, by J. D. Green (Gutenberg ebook)

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