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• Catholicism and Slavery (c1999), by Fred Stopsky (HTML at archive.org)
• Slavery and Catholicism (Durham, NC: North State Publishers, c1957), by Richard Roscoe Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catholics and the Civil War: Essays (Milwaukee, 1945), by Benjamin J. Blied, contrib. by Peter Leo Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

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• An Address to Christians of All Denominations on the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership (Philadelphia: S. C. Atkinson, 1831), by Evan Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bible Gives No Sanction to Slavery (page images at MOA)
• Christianity Versus Treason and Slavery: Religion Rebuking Sedition (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1864)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Come-Outerism: The Duty of Secession From a Corrupt Church (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1845), by William Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty or Slavery: The Great National Question, by R. B. Thurston, A. C. Baldwin, and Timothy Williston (page images at MOA)
• 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 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI 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)

• The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination (with an essay on "the African race" by the author, and on the fugitive slave law by Arthur Dearing; Watertown, MA: Ingalls and Stowell's Steam Press, 1852), by John W. Lewis, contrib. by Arthur Dearing (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery, by Charles K. Whipple (page images at MOA)

• A Catechism, To Be Taught Orally To Those Who Cannot Read: Designed Especially for the Instruction of the Slaves in the Prot. Episcopal Church (Raleigh: Office of "The Church Intelligencer", 1862), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Sermon Delivered Before the Annual Council of the Diocese of North Carolina, Upon the Festival of the Ascension, May 14, 1863, by Alfred A. Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Minister's Wooing (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
• The Minister's Wooing (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)

• Catechism for the Use of the Methodist Missions, First Part (Charleston: Published by John Early, 1853), by William Capers (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Constitutional Powers of the General Conference, With a Special Application to the Subject of Slaveholding, by William L. Harris (page images at MOA)
• Essay on Slavery, by Thomas J. Taylor (page images at MOA)
• 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 Attitude of the Presbyterian Church in the United States Towards American Slavery (M.A. thesis, University of Illinois, 1917), by Elmo Paul Hohman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Church and Slavery, by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
• Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1861), by Joseph Ruggles Wilson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Slavery Ordained of God, by F. A. Ross (Gutenberg text)
• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• John and Mary, or, The Fugitive Slaves: A Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Inquirer Printing and Pub. Co., 1873), by Ellwood Griest (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1737), by Benjamin Lay (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The American Churches, The Bulwarks of American Slavery, by James Gillespie Birney (HTML with commentary at tripod.com)
• The Brotherhood of Thieves: or, A True Picture of the American Church and Clergy: A Letter to Nathaniel Barney, of Nantucket, by Stephen S. Foster (HTML with commentary at tripod.com)
• The Church and Slavery, by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
• The Constitutional Powers of the General Conference, With a Special Application to the Subject of Slaveholding, by William L. Harris (page images at MOA)
• The Attitude of the Presbyterian Church in the United States Towards American Slavery (M.A. thesis, University of Illinois, 1917), by Elmo Paul Hohman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Church and the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States, by Robert Livingston Stanton (page images at MOA)
• Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery, by Charles K. Whipple (page images at MOA)
• A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States, With its Objects and Purposes (Georgia: Printed for the author, 1856), by Howell Cobb
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Fugitive Blacksmith: or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States (second edition; London: C. Gilpin, 1849), by James W. C. Pennington
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • reprint transcription: Gutenberg text
• Slavery Ordained of God, by F. A. Ross (Gutenberg text)

• All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates (Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1737), by Benjamin Lay (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, Held at Atlanta University, May 26th, 1903 (Atlanta University Publications #8; Atlanta: Atlanta University Press, 1903), ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC

• The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Forty Questions Most Frequently Asked About The Catholic Church By Non-Catholics (1956), by A. W. Terminiello (HTML at Una Fides)
• Characteristics From the Writings of John Henry Newman, Being Selections Personal, Historical, Philosophical, and Religious, From His Various Works, by John Henry Newman, ed. by William Samuel Lilly (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury, by Saint Anselm, trans. by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson (PDF files with commentary at umn.edu)
• Europe and the Faith, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• The Faith of the Millions, Second Series: A Selection of Past Essays, by George Tyrrell (Gutenberg text)
• Papers of a Pariah, by Robert Hugh Benson (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Paradoxes of Catholicism, by Robert Hugh Benson
  • HTML at Notre Dame
  • Gutenberg text
• The Range of Reason, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Survivals and New Arrivals, by Hilaire Belloc (HTML at EWTN)
• Tracts Theological and Ecclesiastical (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)
• The Cross and the Crisis (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1938), by Fulton J. Sheen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Catholic Conception of International Law: Francisco de Vitoria, Founder of the Modern Law of Nations; Francisco Suárez, Founder of the Modern Philosophy of Law in General and in Particular of the Law of Nations (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1934), by James Brown Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• What Price Tolerance (Hewlett, NY: All-American Book, Lecture and Research Bureau, c1928), by Paul M. Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of Essays (1916), by Robert Hugh Benson, contrib. by Allan Ross (HTML at Notre Dame)
• European Civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe (edited, with a memoir of the author; 16th edition; Baltimore: J. Murphy and Co., c1850), by Jaime Luciano Balmes, trans. by C. J. Hanford and Robert Kershaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe (edited, with a memoir of the author; Baltimore and New York: J. Murphy Co., n.d.), by Jaime Luciano Balmes, trans. by C. J. Hanford and Robert Kershaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1906), by Saint Francis of Assisi, ed. by Paschal Robinson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi (translated from the Critical Latin Edition), by Saint Francis of Assisi, ed. by Kajetan Esser (HTML at franciscan-archive.org)

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