Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
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Africa for Christ: Twenty-Eight Years a Slave (London: Alexander and Shepheard, 1892), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)- Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Life of George Henry; Together with a Brief History of the Colored People in America (Providence, RI: H.I. Gould, 1894), by George Henry (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of Rev. John Jasper, Pastor of Sixth Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., from His Birth to the Present Time, With His Theory on the Rotation of the Sun (Richmond, VA: R. T. Hill, 1884), by Edwin Archer Randolph (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Lost Family Found: An Authentic Narrative of Cyrus Branch and His Family, Alias John White (1869), by E. M. W. (Elizabeth Merwin Wickham) (HTML and TEI an 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)
- A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, by Noah Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
- A Slave Girl's Story: Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold (Brooklyn: The Author, 1898), by Kate Drumgoold (HTML and TEI with commentary 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)
- Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, UK: W. Mate and Sons, 1909), by Thomas L. Johnson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph; The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1893), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery, Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide, Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself; With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery (Boston: Brown and Stearns, 1849), by Henry Box Brown, contrib. by Charles Stearns
- Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written By Himself (first English edition; Manchester, UK: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851), by Henry Box Brown
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Filed under: Slavery -- Virginia -- History- Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave, Taken from His Own Lips (Virginia: 1854?), by Thomas Anderson, ed. by J. P. Clark (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington (the Father of Our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds (prepared for a P. T. Barnum exhibition; 1835) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The 1619 Project (special issue of The New York Times Magazine, with supplementary materials; 2019), ed. by Nikole Hannah-Jones (PDF with commentary at pulitzercenter.org)
- Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Jean McClure Mudge (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
- Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
- The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, Related by Themselves; With an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.; et al.,, 1856), by Benjamin Drew (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Uncle Tom's Companions, or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction: A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves (London: Edwards and Co., 1852), by John Passmore Edwards, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
- The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
- The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
- Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
- Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
- Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
- Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
- Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822), by James Hamilton (HTML and TEI 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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