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• 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)

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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
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• 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
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• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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
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• 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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• Popular Misconceptions of the Episcopal Church (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), by William Reed Huntington (HTML at anglicanhistory.org)
• Sermons on the Failure of Protestantism, and on Catholicity (New York: D. Appleton, 1869), by Ferdinand C. Ewer
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• Extract from the Annual Address of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, D.D., to the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Holden at Morganton, July 10th, 1861, by Thomas Atkinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Extracts from the Journal of the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Louisiana: Containing an Extract From the Address of the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese; Also, the Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, With the Resolutions Thereupon Adopted (New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861), by Episcopal Church Diocese of Louisiana, contrib. by Leonidas Polk
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• Proceedings of a Meeting of Bishops, Clergymen, and Laymen, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States, At Montgomery, Alabama, On the 3d, 4th, 5th & 6th of July, 1861 (Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish, 1861), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
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  • multiple formats at archive.org

• End of Prelacy: or, A Treatise on Ministerial Parity and the Non-Efficacy of Sacramental Grace, Versus the Romanism of the Prelatical Dogma of an Unbroken Succession, and its cognate, Sacramentarianism, Papal, Tractarian and High and Low-Church (New York: C. Scribner, 1852), by R. C. Shimeall (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Treatise on the Christian Doctrine of Marriage, by Hugh Davey Evans (page images at MOA)

• The Faith By Which We Live: A Plain, Practical Exposition of the Religion of the Incarnate Lord (Milwaukee: Morehouse Pub. Co., c1919), by Charles Fiske (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Authority of the Church As Set Forth in the Book of Common Prayer Articles and Canons: Sermons Preached in Trinity Chapel, New York, During Lent, 1891 (New York: E. and J. B. Young and Co., 1891), by Morgan Dix (page images at HathiTrust)

• Small Dioceses and State Conventions: Some Remarks on the Polity of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States, by James V. Campbell (page images at MOA)
• Extract from the Annual Address of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, D.D., to the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Holden at Morganton, July 10th, 1861, by Thomas Atkinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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