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• A Dissertation on Slavery, With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It in the State of Virginia (reprint, New York, 1861), by St. George Tucker
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• The Speech of John A. Chandler (of Norfolk County,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State With Respect to Her Slave Population (Richmond, VA: T. W. White, printer, 1832), by John A. Chandler
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• George Washington and the Negro (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1932), by Walter H. Mazyck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War, by Thomas Nelson Page (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party (New York: E. J. Hale and Co., 1867), by Robert Lewis Dabney
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• Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The End of an Era, by John S. Wise (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
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• A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (second edition; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
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• Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
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• The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding
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• The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (second edition, 1890), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade in the United States, in a Series of Letters Addressed to the Executive Committee of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (Boston: Light and Stearns, 1836), by E. A. Andrews, contrib. by American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward
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• From slave cabin to the pulpit ; the autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph: the southern question illustrated and sketches of slave life. (J. H. Earle, 1893), by Peter Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation on slavery: with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it in the State of Virginia. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by St. George Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and the domestic slave-trade in the United States; in a series of letters addressed to the Executive Committee of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race. (Negro History Press, 1969), by E. A. Andrews and American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plantation reminiscences ([Richmond? Va.], 1878), by Page Thacker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832 (The Johns Hopkins press, 1930), by Theodore Marshall Whitfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce colony, London, Canada West (William Alling, 1857), by Austin Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Beverley B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Southhampton insurrection (The Neal company, 1900), by William Sidney Drewry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunshine and shadow of slave life. (Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by William Ferguson Goldie and Isaac D. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a free man; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. (Negro Universities Press, 1968), by Austin Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speech of Thomas Marshall, in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the abolition of slavery. (Printed by T. W. White, 1832), by Thomas Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the slave question (Printed by T.W. White, 1833), by J. B. Harrison and Virginian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of James L. Smith; including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James L. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the people of west Virginia : shewing that slavery is injurious to the public welfare, and that it may be gradually abolished without detriment to the rights and interests of slave holders (Green Bookman, 1933), by Henry Ruffner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession. (L.H. Jenkins, 1914), by Beverley B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of my life: or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great civil war, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experience on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ... (A.D. Worthington, 1899), by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginian history of African colonization. (Macfarlane & Fergusson, 1855), by Philip Slaughter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910), by Beverley B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judge Tucker's dissertation on slavery (Mathew Carey, 1861), by St. George Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery and the domestic slave-trade in the United States. In a series of letters addressed to the Executive Committee of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race. (Light and Stearns, 1836), by E. A. Andrews and American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1882), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the state of Virginia. (Wells and Lilly, 1829), by Thomas Jefferson and James Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to a member of the General Assembly of Virginia, on the subject of the late conspiracy of the slaves; with a proposal for their colonization. (Prnted by Bonsal & Niles, 1801) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circular-Schreiben an die deutschen Einwohner von Rockingham und Augusta, und den benachbarten Caunties. Erster Band. (Gedruckt bey Laurentz Wartmann, Rockingham County, Virginia, 1818), by John Brown, Claudius Buchanan, British and Foreign Bible Society, and Rockingham Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1882), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West (Allings & Cory, 1861), by Austin Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Anti-slavery in Virginia; extracts from Thos. Jefferson (J.F. Weishampel, 1865), by William Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the slave question, extracted from the American quarterly review, Dec. 1832; based on the speech of Th: Marshall, of Fauquier: showing that slavery is the essential hindrance to the prosperity of the slave-holding states; with particular reference to Virginia. (Printed by T.W. White, 1833), by Jesse Burton Harrison, Virginian, and William S. Reynolds Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography, including also reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1882), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Mr. Bayly of Accomack, on the bill to prevent citizens of New York from carrying slaves out of this commonwealth, and to prevent the escape of persons charged with the commission of any crime, and in reply to Mr. Scott of Fauquier, delivered in the House of delegates of Virginia, on the 25th and 26th of February 1841. Published by members of the Senate and House of delegates. (Printed by Sheperd and Colin, 1841), by Bayly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the people of west Virginia; shewing that slavery is injurious to the public welfare, and that it may be gradually abolished without detriment to the rights and interests of slaveholders. (Printed by R.C. Noel, 1847), by Henry Ruffner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the debate [on the abolition of slavery] in the Virginia legislature of 1831 and 1832. (Printed by T. W. White, 1832), by Thomas Roderick Dew, William S. Reynolds Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Francis Markoe Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political miscellanies ([Richmond, 1829), by William Branch Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Planters of colonial Virginia (Princeton university press; [etc., etc.], 1922), by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the proposed abolition of slavery in Virginia in 1785. (John Wilson and Son, 1903), by Albert Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the people of Virginia! : John Letcher and his antecedents : read and circulate. (Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office, 1859), by Democratic Party (Va.). State Central Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The planters of colonial Virginia (Princeton University Press, 1922), by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession (Longmans, Green, 1911), by Beverly B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the life of John Quincy Adams, when in slavery, and now as a freeman. (Sieg, printer, 1872), by John Quincy Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the state of Virginia (J.W. Randolph, 1853), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave. (Bela Marsh, 1849), by Henry Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The problem of freedom and slavery in the United States; a lecture before the Literary and Scientific Institution of Smyrna. (Damiano Printer, 1862), by Cyrus Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of a southern planter (Cushings & Bailey, 1887), by Susan Dabney Smedes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession (Longmans, Green, 1910), by Beverley B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave insurrections in Virginia, 1830-1865 (Neale Co., 1983), by William Sidney Drewry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Virginia, attitude toward slavery and secession. (L. Jenkins, 1915), by Beverley B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the people of Virginia! : John Letcher and his antecedents : read and circulate. (Printed at the Whig Book and Job Office, 1859), by Democratic Party (Va.). State Central Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speeches of Philip A. Bolling, (of Buckingham,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the policy of the state in relations to her colored population: delivered on the 1th and 25th of January, 1832. (Printed by T. W. White, 1832), by Philip A. Bolling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in Virginia : a paper read before the Diocesan Council in Petersburg, Virginia, June, 1904 (s.n., 1905), by C. Braxton Bryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Review of the debate [on the abolition of slavery] in the Virginia legislature of 1831 and 1832. (T.W. White, 1832), by Thomas R. Dew (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on slavery (J. W. Randolph, 1849), by Thomas R. Dew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speech of William H. Brodnax, (of Dinwiddie) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the policy of the state with respect to its colored population. (Thomas W. White, printer, 1832), by William H. Brodnax (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession (L.H. Jenkins, 1915), by Beverley B. Munford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the people of west Virginia : shewing that slavery is injurious to the public welfare, and that it may be gradually abolished, without detriment to the rights and interests of slaveholders. (1847), by Henry Ruffner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A defence of Virginia, and through her of the South, in recent and pending contests against the Sectional Party. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Robert Lewis Dabney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia's attitude toward slavery and secession (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Beverley Bland Munford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession, by Beverley B. Munford (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Planters of Colonial Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman: Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West, by Austin Steward (Gutenberg ebook)
• The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by himself. ; Vol I[-II]. ; [Five lines from Isaiah] (New-York: : Printed and sold by W. Durell, at his book-store and printing-office, no. 19, Q. Street., M,DCC,XCI. [1791]), by Olaudah Equiano and Cornelius Tiebout (HTML at Evans TCP)

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