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  • Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner by United States Congress (page images at MOA)
  • Speeches, Lectures, and Letters by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
  • Address Illustrative of the Nature and Power of the Slave States, and the Duties of the Free States by Josiah Quincy (page images at MOA)
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary) by Federal Writers' Project (page images at loc.gov)
  • Congressional Intervention in Regard to Slavery in the Territories by Lawrence O'Brien Branch (page images at MOA)
  • Cotton is King by David Christy (page images at MOA)
  • Freedom v. Slavery by John Hutchins (page images at MOA)
  • From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom by Lucy Ann Delany (HTML at nypl.org)
  • (HTML and TEI at UNC) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
  • Letter to the Hon. Wm. C. Rives of Virgina, on Slavery and the Union by Nathan Appleton (page images at MOA)
  • Letter of Commodore Stockton on the Slavery Question by Robert Field Stockton (page images at MOA)
  • Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911) by Irving Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Life of Stephen A. Douglas: To Which are Added His Speeches and Reports by Henry Martyn Flint (page images at MOA)
  • Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
  • My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America by Moses Grandy (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper (1832) by Isaac T. Hopper (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman by John Quincy Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)
  • The Natick Resolution, or, Resistance to Slaveholders the Right and Duty of Southern Slaves and Northern Freemen, by Henry Clarke Wright, Boston, 1859 [Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project, with audio.]
  • New Dangers to Freedom, and New Duties for its Defenders by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
  • Old Plantation Days (1902) by W. Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Plantation Life Before Emancipation by Robert Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports by United States Senate (page images at MOA)
  • Recent Speeches and Addresses (1851-1855) by Charles Sumner (page images at MOA)
  • Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
  • Review of Webster's Speech on Slavery by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
  • Sermons on Slavery and the Civil War (page images at MOA)
  • Shall the Territories be Africanized? by James Harlan (page images at MOA)
  • 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 in the United States of America by Henry Sherman (page images at MOA)
  • Slavery: What It Was, What It Has Done, What It Intends To Do by Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (page images at MOA)
  • Southern Slavery Reduces Northern Wages by George M. Weston (page images at MOA)
  • Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on the "Measures of Adjustment" by Stephen Arnold Douglas (page images at MOA)
  • Speech of Hon. J. Collamer, of Vermont, On Slavery in the Territories by Jacob Collamer (page images at MOA)
  • Speech of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, Against the Revolutionary Movement of the Anti-Slavery Party by Thomas Lanier Clingman (page images at MOA)
  • Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster, on Mr. Clay's Resolutions by Daniel Webster (page images at MOA)
  • Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
  • Speech of Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., On Slavery Issues by Clement Claiborne Clay (page images at MOA)
  • The Pro-Slavery Argument, As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern States (page images at MOA)
  • The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • The Life of Stephen A. Douglas by William Gardner (Gutenberg text)
  • The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863 by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy (Gutenberg text;
  • The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
  • The Mission of Free Labor on the American Continent by William Alanson Howard (page images at MOA)
  • The New Dogma of the South-- "Slavery a Blessing" by Henry L. Dawes (page images at MOA)
  • The Fire and Hammer of God's Word Against the Sin of Slavery by George Barrell Cheever (page images at MOA)
  • The Position and Course of the South by William Henry Trescot (page images at MOA)
  • United States vs. Charles G. Davis: Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., On a Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave by Charles G. Davis (page images at MOA)
  • Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself by Henry Bibb (HTML at Virginia)
  • 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 Clark (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves by Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (HTML at nypl.org)
  • An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York by Jupiter Hammon (HTML at Virginia)
  • A Brand Plucked From the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch by Julia A. J. Foote (HTML at nypl.org)
  • A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, ed. by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
  • A Narrative of the Negro (1912) by Leila Amos Pendleton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Broken Gloom: Sketches of the History, Character, and Dying Testimony of Beneficiaries of the Colored Home, in the City of New-York (New York: J.F. Trow, 1851) by Mary W. Thompson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography by Robert Russa Moton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Friction Between the Races: Causes and Cure (1930) by Sutton Elbert Griggs (HTML at Virginia)
  • Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood & Co., 1875) by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • Psychiatry's Betrayal: In the Guise of Help: Creating Racism by Church of Scientology (illustrated HTML at cchr.org)
  • Retrieving African-American Women's History: A Methodological Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University by Jennifer Morgan, ed. by Virginia Daley (HTML at Duke)
  • The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and his Fidelity by William Wells Brown (page images at MOA)
  • Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War by P. K. Rose (HTML at odci.gov)
  • The Healing of a Nation by David Loye (page images at iuniverse.com)
  • The Negro in Our History (fifth edition, 1928) by Carter Godwin Woodson (framed PDF files at cwru.edu)
  • The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs (Gutenberg text)
  • The Position of the Republican and Democratic Parties: A Dialogue Between a White Republican and a Colored Citizen by Republican Congressional Committee (page images at MOA)
  • The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography by William Pickens (HTML and TEI at UNC)
  • The South Comes North in Detroit's Own Scottsboro Case by Harry Haywood (page images at MSU)
  • The African American Predicament (1999), ed. by Christopher H. Foreman (page images at Brookings Press)
  • The Work of the Afro-American Woman (second edition, 1908) by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
  • Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt by William James Edwards (illustrated at UNC)
  • Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley (at UNC)
  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850 edition) by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert (at Celebration of Women Writers)
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