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• Blake: or, The Huts of America, by Martin Robison Delany (HTML at Virginia)
• Bond and Free: A True Tale of Slave Times (Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1886), by Jas. H. W. Howard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Leah Mordecai: A Novel, by Belle K. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852), by Caroline E. Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • page images at MOA
• Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen From Africa and Sold Into Slavery. Related by Themselves. (Manchester England: Wm. Irwin; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Matthew Urlwin Sears (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bond and Free: A True Tale of Slave Times (Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1886), by Jas. H. W. Howard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen From Africa and Sold Into Slavery. Related by Themselves. (Manchester England: Wm. Irwin; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Yamboo: or, the North American Slave (3 volumes; London: Printed for A. K. Newman and Co., 1812), by Author of The Bravo of Bohemia (PDF at Chawton House Library)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (first edition and commentary), by Mark Twain (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Cudjo's Cave (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1864), by J. T. Trowbridge (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Matthew Urlwin Sears (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Martyrs and the Fugitive: or, A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son, by S. H. Platt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Jamie Parker, the Fugitive (Hartford: Brockett, Fuller and Co., 1851), by Emily C. Pearson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore (2 volumes; J. H. Eastburn, 1836), by Richard Hildreth
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Volume II: HTML and TEI at UNC
• The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852), by Richard Hildreth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Jamie Parker, the Fugitive (Hartford: Brockett, Fuller and Co., 1851), by Emily C. Pearson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Heroic Slave, by Frederick Douglass (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• The Heroic Slave (as it appeared in Autographs for Freedom; 1853), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Autobiography of a Female Slave (New York: Redfield, 1857), by Martha Griffith Browne (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Witches of Karres (included on a Baen CD image), by James H. Schmitz, ed. by Eric Flint
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children": or, Holiday-Week on a Louisiana Estate (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Week With the American Slaves (previously published as "Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation Children"; London: Beadle and Co., 1863), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (London: Partridge and Oakley, 1853), by William Wells Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Clotelle (Boston: J. Redpath, 1864), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or, The Colored Heroine (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867), by William Wells Brown (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Clotelle, or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg text)

• The Story of a Slave: A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times, Hitherto Unwritten, From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress (Chicago: Wesley, Elmore and Benson, 1894) (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; With Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen (Syracuse: Hall and Dickson, 1847), by Julius Melbourn, ed. by Jabez D. Hammond (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Reminiscences of Isaac and Sukey, Slaves of B. F. Moore, of Raleigh, N.C. (Raleigh, NC: Edwards, 1907), by L. C. Capehart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King, and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina (London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1847), by Peter Neilson
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hatchie, the Guardian Slave: or, The Heiress of Bellevue (1853), by Warren T. Ashton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sunnybank (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1866), by Marion Harland (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
• Sunnybank (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1867), by Marion Harland
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
  • page images at HathiTrust
• English Serfdom and American Slavery (New York: H. Long and Brother, 1854), by Lucien Bonaparte Chase (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)

• Bond and Free: A Tale of the South (Indianapolis: C. B. Ingraham, 1882), by Grace Lintner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Jamie Parker, the Fugitive (Hartford: Brockett, Fuller and Co., 1851), by Emily C. Pearson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Heroic Slave, by Frederick Douglass (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• The Heroic Slave (as it appeared in Autographs for Freedom; 1853), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore (2 volumes; J. H. Eastburn, 1836), by Richard Hildreth
  • Volume I: HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Volume II: HTML and TEI at UNC
• The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852), by Richard Hildreth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave (New York: Harper and Bros., c1890), by Lafcadio Hearn (multiple formats at archive.org)

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