HOMESPUN HEROINES AND OTHERWOMEN OF DISTINCTION, COMPILED AND EDITED By HALLIE Q. BROWN, 1926, THE ALDINE PUBLISHING COMPANY Xenia, Ohio, U. S. A.

The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished, by Henry Charles Carey

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, 4 Parts by American Anti-Slavery Society Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

The Anti-Slavery Examiner

Green, Jacob D.
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

Address to the people of Kentucky on the subject of emancipation 1849 (PDF)

Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The Circassian Slave; or, The Sultan's Favorite: A Story of Constantinople and the Caucasus, by Maturin Murray Ballou

Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law

Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes

One of Life's Slaves by Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie

The Slave of the Lamp by Henry Seton Merriman

Murray, Henry A.
Lands of the Slave and the Free
Cuba, the United States, and Canada

Steward, Austin
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years,
While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

Twenty-Two Years a Slav/Austin Steward

Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or The Story of My Life in Three Continents (Bournemouth, Eng.: W. Mate & Sons, 1909), by Thomas Lewis Johnson

Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson

The Anti-Slavery Alphabet by Anonymous Merrihew and Thompson Printers

The Anti-Slavery Alphabet

Slavery Ordained of God by D.D. Rev. Fred. A. Ross

Slavery Ordained of God Review

The Anti-Slavery Harp by Various

The Anti-Slavery Harp Articles

A Child's Anti-Slavery Book by Various

A Child's Anti-Slavery Book review

Address to Christians of All Denominations on the Inconsistency of Admitting Slave-Holders to Communion and Church Membership
Prize contest essay published in 1831 by the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project. (PDF)


Address to Christians of All Denominations review
 
All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
One of the earliest North American antislavery works, published by Benjamin Lay in 1737 in Philadelphia. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

All Slave-Keepers review
 
The Bible Vindicated from the Charge of Sustaining Slavery
A religious tract of biblical disputation published in Columbus, Ohio, in 1837 by Goodsell Buckingham, a local Methodist antislavery lecturer. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

The Bible Vindicated
Review
 
Color-Caste
A tract arguing against post-emancipation segregation in the Methodist Church, by Rev. Thomas Pearne, a leading church figure (Dayton, Ohio: n.p., 1876). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
 
 
A Discourse, Delivered at the African Meeting-House
An 1808 sermon delivered by Jedidiah Morse commemorating the abolition of the slave trade (Boston: Lincoln and Edmands). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
 
Narrative of the Anti-Slavery Experience of a Minister in the Methodist E. Church, Who Was Twice Rejected by the Philadelphia Annual Conference, and Finally Deprived of a License to Preach for Being an Abolitionist
An 1845 autobiographical narrative by Lucius Matlack, a leading figure of American Methodism, concerning his experience as a religious abolitionist. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
 
An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
A New Year's sermon given by George Lawrence in New York City in 1813, on the fifth anniversary of the banning of slave importation into the United States (New York, 1813). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
 
 
Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn
 
Slaves Bought and Sold
An anonymous religious antislavery tract published in Buffalo, New York during the 1840s. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
 
Teaching of the Spirit, Exemplified in the History of Two Slaves
Post-war anti-slavery tract, published by the Society of Friends (Philadelphia: Tract Association of Friends, 1870). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
A Thanksgiving Sermon
Annotated edition of a January 1, 1808 sermon by Absalom Jones, of the St. Thomas African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, commemorating the end of legal importation of slaves into the United States. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions

Cushing, Caleb
Title Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the Right of Petition,
as Connected with Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade
in the District of Columbia. In The House Of Representatives, January 25, 1836.

The Abolitionists by John F. Hume

Landon, Fred.  “The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada.”  Journal of Negro History 4 (January 1919): 33-40.

Martin, Asa Earl.  “Pioneer Anti-Slavery Press.”  Mississippi Valley Historical Review 2 (March 1916): 510-28.

Houston, G. David.  “John Woolman’s Efforts in Behalf of Freedom.”  Journal of Negro History 2 (April 1917): 126-38.

Othello (pseud.); A Free Negro (pseud.); and Adahoonzou, King of Dahomey.  “What the Negro Was Thinking in the Eighteenth Century.”  Journal of Negro History 1 (January 1916): 49-68.

Woodson, Carter G.  “Anthony Benezet.”  Journal of Negro History 2 (January 1917): 37-50.

Stephenson, N. W.  “The Question of Arming the Slaves.”  American Historical Review 18 (January 1913): 295-308.

Wesley, Charles H.  “Lincoln’s Plan for Colonizing the Emancipated Negroes.”  Journal of Negro History 4 (January 1919): 7-21.

Bruce, Philip A.  Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records.  New York: Macmillan, 1896. Chapter IX: “System of Labor: The Slave.”

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

Emerson, F. V.  “Geographic Influences in American Slavery. Part I.”  Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 43 (1911): 13-26.

Emerson, F. V.  “Geographic Influences in American Slavery. Part II.”  Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 43 (1911): 106-18.

Emerson, F. V.  “Geographic Influences in American Slavery. Part III.”  Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 43 (1911): 170-81.

Jernegan, Marcus W.  “Slavery and the Beginnings of Industrialism in the American Colonies.”  American Historical Review 25 (January 1920): 220-40.

Phillips, Ulrich B.  “The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt.”  Political Science Quarterly 20 (June 1905): 257-75.

Phillips, Ulrich B.  “The Origin and Growth of the Southern Black Belts.”  American Historical Review (July 1906): 798-815.

Phillips, Ulrich B.  “The Slave Labor Problem in the Charleston District.”  Political Science Quarterly 22 (September 1907): 416-39.

Stone, Alfred Holt.  “Some Problems of Southern Economic History.”  American Historical Review 13 (July 1908): 779-97.

Blackiston, Harry S. “Lincoln’s Emancipation Plan.”  Journal of Negro History 7 (July 1922): 257-77.

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Part II, Chapter VIII: “Legislative, Judicial, and Constitutional Obstructions to Emancipation.”

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Part III, Chapter I: “Liberties of the Free People of Color.”

Russell, John H.  “Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia.”  Journal of Negro History 1 (June 1916): 233-42.

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Part I, Chapter XVIII: “Fugitives from Slavery”

Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, 1897), by Nina Hill Robinson

Hartgrove, W. B.  “The Story of Josiah Henson.”  Journal of Negro History 3 (January 1918): 1-21.

Landon, Fred.  “The Buxton Settlement in Canada.”  Journal of Negro History 3 (October 1918): 360-67.

Lindsay, Arnett G.  “Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Great Britain Bearing on the Return of Negro Slaves, 1783-1828.”  Journal of Negro History 5 (October 1920): 391-419.

Woodson, Carter G.  “The Beginnings of the Miscegenation of the Whites and Blacks.”  Journal of Negro History 3 (October 1918): 335-53.

Corwin, Edward S.  “The Dred Scott Decision in the Light of Contemporary Legal Doctrines.”  American Historical Review 17 (October 1911): 52-69.

Imes, William Lloyd.  “The Legal Status of Negroes and Slaves in Tennesee.”  Journal of Negro History 4 (July 1919): 254-72.

Mecklin, John M.  “The Evolution of the Slave Status in American Democracy. I.”  Journal of Negro History 2 (April 1917): 105-25.

Mecklin, John M.  “The Evolution of the Slave Status in American Democracy. II.”  Journal of Negro History 2 (July 1917): 229-51.

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Appendix B: “Slavery among the Cherokees and Choctaws.”

Lauber, Almon Wheeler.  Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States.  New York: Columbia University, 1913.

Dodd, William E.  “The Social Philosophy of the Old South.”  American Journal of Sociology 23 (May 1918): 735-46.

Beasley, Delilah L.“Slavery in California.”  Journal of Negro History 3 (January 1918): 33-44.

Bugbee, Lester G. “Slavery in Early Texas. I.”  Political Science Quarterly 13 (September 1898): 389-412.

Bugbee, Lester G. “Slavery in Early Texas. II.”  Political Science Quarterly 13 (December 1898): 648-68.

Steiner, Bernard C.  History of Slavery in Connecticut.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1893.

Trexler, Harrison Anthony.  Slavery in Missouri, 1804-1865.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1914. (Digitization in progress)

Woodson, Carter. G.  “Freedom and Slavery in Appalachian America.”  Journal of Negro History 1 (April 1916): 132-50.

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Part I, Chapter XXII: “Right to Education—Religious Liberty—Rights of Conscience.” Part II, Chapter VII: “Free Social Worship and Religious Instruction Prohibited.”

Houston, G. David.  “John Woolman’s Efforts in Behalf of Freedom.”  Journal of Negro History 2 (April 1917): 126-38. (Woolman was a Quaker abolitionist.)

Jernegan, Marcus W.  “Slavery and Conversion in the American Colonies.”  American Historical Review 21 (April 1916): 504-27.

Pierre, C. E.  “The Work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts among the Negroes in the Colonies.”  Journal of Negro History 1 (October 1916): 349-60.

Phillips, Ulrich B.  “Slave Crime in Virginia.”  American Historical Review 20 (January 1915): 336-40.

Banks, Frank D. “Plantation Courtship.”  Journal of American Folklore 7 (April-June 1894): 147-49.

Aimes, Hubert H. S. “African Institutions in America.”  Journal of American Folklore 18 (January-March 1905): 15-32.

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Part I, Chapter VII: “Slaves Cannot Marry.”

Goodell, William. The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853. Part I, Chapter VIII: “Slaves Cannot Constitute Families”

Hunter, Frances L.  “Slave Society on the Southern Plantation.”  Journal of Negro History 7 (January 1922): 1-10.

The Underground Railroad by William Still

The Sea-Witch by Maturin Murray Ballou

White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Louis Albert Banks

African Slavery in America (1856), by Charles Jared Ingersoll

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784
Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants
An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects

The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
Title The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808),
Volume I
Volume II
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure.

Captains Drayton and Sayres; Or the Way in Which Americans are Treated, for Aiding the Cause of Liberty at Home
Anonymous tract published in 1848 by the Eastern Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society concerning prosecution of Daniel Drayton and Edwin Sayres, a case involving two whites who attempted to aid slaves to escape the District of Columbia. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery Karl Marx's argument that only the enemies of British wage-slavery have a right to condemn slavery in the United States. Digitized by the EServer.

The Natick Resolution, or, Resistance to slaveholders the right and duty of southern slaves and northern freemen
A militant antislavery tract calling for violent overthrow of slavery, published by Henry Clarke Wright in Boston in 1859. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

Benwell, John
An Englishman's Travels in America
His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States

Ida May
Major antislavery novel by Mary Hayden Green Pike (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1854). Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

Juan, or, The White Slave, A History of Wrongs, Trials, Suffering and Daring
A popular romance by William D. Ritner (Philadelphia, 1857) based on a 'heroic quadroon' character and featuring antislavery themes. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.

Anti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete by John Greenleaf Whittier

American Scenes, and Christian Slavery by Ebenezer Davies

Wilson, Harriet E., 1828?-1870?
Title Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North showing that slavery's shadows fall even there

Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life by Garnet and Walker

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America

The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man, by Henry Clay Bruce

Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup

Life of Isaac Mason As a Slave, by Isaac Mason

Life of Mary F. McCray, Born and Raised a Slave in the State of Kentucky, by S. J. McCray

Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist: An Address to the Young Friends of the Slave (1859), ed. by Joe Lockard (PDF)

A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin by A. Woodward

Willie Lynch's Speech on Controlling Slaves -- Angry White Male Pissed Off Black Man -- Horation M. Bennett

Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself

The Capture of a Slaver J. Taylor Wood (Atlantic Monthly 1900)


Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave.
Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor.
To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African:

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Arkansas Narratives, Part 1, Part 2,Part 5,Part 6,Part 7

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Florida Narratives

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Georgia Narratives, Part 1

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Indiana Narratives

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Kansas Narratives

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Kentucky Narratives

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Maryland Narratives

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Mississippi Narratives

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Ohio Narratives

American Negro Slavery
A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell -- Project Gutenberg

A Master Sold by a Slave by John Stuart Bonner

An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm by Jesse Macy

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: Published by H. B. Skinner), by Thomas H. Jones

The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, by John Andrew Jackson

Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by Ellen and William Craft

The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman, by Bethany Veney

Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Published by Bela Marsh, 1848)

Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, by James Williams

The Slave Power collected edition of the antislavery writings and speeches of abolitionist Theodore Parker (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1910)

Slavery and the War A Historical Essay
Lengthy tract on the political and religious origins of the Civil War, by Rev. Henry Darling (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1863)

Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict
Autobiography by Samuel May, a leading figure of the abolitionist movement (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869).

The Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery

Slavery in Massachusetts by Henry David Thoreau

Remniscences Autobiography of an antislavery and women's suffrage activist Lucy Colman (Buffalo, NY: H.L. Green, 1891) (pdf)

A European slave trader, John Barbot, describes the African slave trade (1682)

A Muslim merchant, Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, recalls his capture and enslavement (1733)

Olaudah Equiano, an 11-year old Ibo from Nigeria remembers his kidnapping into slavery (1789)

Venture Smith relates the story of his kidnapping at the age of six (1798)

A European slave trader, James Bardot, Jr., describes a shipboard revolt by enslaved Africans (1700)

Olaudah Equiano describes the horrors of the Middle Passage (1789)

A doctor, Alexander Falconbridge, describes conditions on an English slaver (1788)

Olaudah Equiano describes his arrival in the New World (1789)

An English physician, Alexander Falconbridge, describes the treatment of newly arrived slaves in the West Indies (1788)

Solomon Northrup describes the working conditions of slaves on a Louisiana cotton plantation (1853)

Charles Ball compares working conditions on tobacco and cotton plantations (1858)

Josiah Henson describes slave housing, diet, and clothing (1877)

Francis Henderson describes living conditions under slavery (1856)

Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908
Title My Life In The South

Jacob Stroyer recalls the material conditions of slave life (1898)

James Martin remembers a slave auction (1937)

Jacob Stroyer recalls the formative experiences of his childhood (1898)

Pennington, James W. C.
The Fugitive Blacksmith
or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington

James W.C. Pennington analyzes the impact of slavery upon childhood (1849)

Lane, Lunsford
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C.

Lunsford Lane describes the moment when he first recognized the meaning of slavery (1842)

Laura Spicer learns that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869)

An overseer attempts to rape Josiah Henson's mother (1877)

Lewis Clarke discusses the impact of slavery on family life (1846)

Olaudah Equiano describes West African religious beliefs and practices (1789)

Charles Ball remembers a slave funeral, which incorporated traditional African customs (1837)

Charles Ball
Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Who Lived Forty Years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave Under Various Masters, and was One Year in the Navy with Commodore Barney, During the Late War.
New York: Published by John S. Taylor, 1837.

Peter Randolph describes the religious gathers slaves held outside of their master's supervision (1893)

Henry Bibb discusses "conjuration" (1849)

Frederick Douglass describes the circumstances that prompted masters to whip slaves (1845)

John Brown has bells and horns fastened on his head (1855)

Moses Roper is punished for attempting to run away (1837)

Lewis Clarke describes the implements his mistress used to beat him (1846)

Turner, Nat
Title The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Leader of the Late Insurrections in Southampton, Va. As Fully
and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray, in the Prison Where
He Was Confined, and Acknowledged by Him to be Such when
Read Before the Court of Southampton; With the Certificate,
Under Seal of the Court Convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831,
For His Trial. Also, an Authentic Account of the Whole
Insurrection.

Nat Turner describes his revolt against slavery (1831)

Margaret Ward follows the North Star to freedom (1879)

Harriet Tubman sneaks into the South to free slaves (1863, 1865)

Henry "Box" Brown escapes slavery in a sealed box (1872)

Margaret Garner kills her daughter rather than see her returned to slavery (1876)

Not a man, and yet a man
Whitman, Albery Allson, 1851-1901

Cabin and parlor; or, Slaves and masters - Randolph, J. Thornton (PDF 33mb)

Beecher, Catharine E. : An essay on slavery and abolitionism, with reference to the duty of American females. By Catharine E. Beecher 1837

Jernegan, Marcus W.
“Slavery and Conversion in the American Colonies.”

Mecklin, John M.
“The Evolution of the Slave Status in American Democracy.”

1800, Historical Background of the Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt, by Herbert Aptheker

Thomas Jefferson on Slavery

"Epistle To William Wilberforce." by Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
First Publication: Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade. by Anna Lætitia Barbauld. London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1791.

Thomas H. Jones
The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a Slave for Forty-Three Years.
Boston: Printed by Bazin & Chandler, 1862.

Thomas H. Jones
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: Published by H. B. Skinner, [185-?].

Friday Jones, 1810-1887
Days of Bondage. Autobiography of Friday Jones. Being a Brief Narrative of His Trials and Tribulations in Slavery.
Washington, D.C.: Commercial Pub. Co., 1883.

George Fitzhugh, 1806-1881
Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters.
Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1857.

L. R. Ferebee (London R.), b. 1849
A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life. Written from Memory. To 1882.
Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers, Publishers and Binders, 1882.

Elizabeth, 1765?-1866
Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of the Gospel Born in Slavery.
Philadelphia: Tract Assoc. of Friends, 1889.

William Greenleaf Eliot, 1811-1887
The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863.
Boston: Cupples, Upham and Company; Old Corner Bookstore, 1885.

S. J. Celestine Edwards
From Slavery to a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada.
London: Kensit, 1891.

Noah Davis, b. 1803 or 4-?
A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man. Written by Himself, at the Age of Fifty-Four.
Baltimore: J. F. Weishampel, Jr., 1859.

Martha Griffith Browne, d. 1906
Autobiography of a Female Slave.
New York: Redfield, 1857.

The Blind African Slave,
or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch,
Brinch, Boyrereau,
Prentiss, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1774 or 5-1817.

Levi Branham, 1852-
My Life and Travels.
Dalton, Ga.: A.J. Showalter Co. Printers and Publishers, 1929.

John Quincy Adams, b. 1845
Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman.
Harrisburg, Pa.: Sieg, 1872.

Kate E. R. Pickard
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery.
Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856.

S. J. McCray
Life of Mary F. McCray: Born and Raised a Slave in the State of Kentucky.
Lima , Ohio: [s.n.], 1898.

G. W. Offley (Greensbury Washington), b. 1808
A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, a Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary; Who Lived Twenty-Seven Years at the South and Twenty-Three at the North; Who Never Went to School a Day in His Life, and Only Commenced to Learn His Letters When Nineteen Years and Eight Months Old; the Emancipation of His Mother and Her Three Children; How He Learned to Read While Living in a Slave State, and Supported Himself from the Time He Was Nine Years Old Until He Was Twenty-One.
Hartford, Conn.: [s. n.], 1859.

Allen Parker
Recollections of Slavery Times.
Worchester, Mass.: Chas. W. Burbank & Co., 1895.

William Pickens, 1881-1954
The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography.
Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1911.

Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
A Catechism to Be Taught Orally To Those Who Cannot Read; Designed Especially for the Instruction of the Slaves.
Raleigh: Office of "The Church Intelligencer", 1862.

William H. Robinson, b. 1848
From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery.
Eau Clair, Wis.: James H. Tifft, 1913.

David Smith, 1784- and Daniel Alexander Payne, 1811-1893
Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church; Being a Complete History, Embracing over Sixty Years' Labor in the Advancement of the Redeemer's Kingdom on Earth. Including "The History of the Origin and Development of Wilberforce University."
Xenia, O[hio]: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881.

Mattie J. Jackson
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage, Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery, Incidents During the War, Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story.
Lawrence [Mass.]: Sentinel Office, 1866.

Levin Tilmon, 1807-1863
A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon: Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York.
Jersey City: W.W. & L.A. Pratt, Printers, 1853.

Samuel Ringgold Ward, b. 1817
Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England.
London: John Snow, 35, Paternoster Row, 1855.

Sermons on slavery & the civil war 1851-65

Slavery among the Puritans.: A letter to the Rev. Moses Stuart.
Amicus. Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1850.

Slavery in its relation to God.: A review of Rev. Dr. Lord's Thanksgiving sermon, in favor of domestic slavery, entitled The higher law, in its application to the Fugitive Slave Bill./ By a minister of the Gospel, in Massachusetts. Written by special request.
Buffalo: A. M. Clapp, 1851.

Slavery, or involuntary servitude: does it legally exist in the state of New York? Points on argument in Court of appeals. Opinions in Court of appeals.
Albany: J. Munsell, 1864.

The Bible gives no sanction to slavery,: by a Tennessean.
Tennessean.
[Cincinnati: American reform tract and book society, 185-?]

The pro-slavery argument: as maintained by the most distinguished writers of the Southern states,/ containing the several essays, on the subject, of Chancellor Harper, Governor Hammond, Dr. Simms, and Professor Dew.
Charleston: Walker, Richards & Co., 1852.

The Republican scrap book,: containing the platformsand a choice selection of extracts, setting forth the real questions in issue, opinions of the candidates, the nature and designs of the slave oligarchy, as shown by their own writers, and the opinions of Clay, Webster, Josiah Quincy and other patriots, on slavery and its extension ...
Boston: J. P. Jewett & co., 1856.

The war and slavery: or, Victory only through emancipation.
Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1861.

The sable cloud: a southern tale, with northern comments. By the author "A south-side view of slavery."
Adams, Nehemiah, 1806-1878.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861.

Letter to the Hon. Wm. C. Rives of Virgina, on slavery and the union:
Appleton, Nathan, 1779-1861.Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868.
Boston: J. H. Eastburn's Press, 1860.

The Internal Slave-Trade in Africa, Heli Chatelain, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, Vol. 28, No. 1. (1896), pp. 70-71. (PDF)

Slavery on British West India Plantations in the Eighteenth Century The Slaves, Frank Wesley Pitman, The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 11, No. 4. (Oct., 1926), pp. 584-594. (PDF)

Life of St. Benedict surnamed "The Moor" : the son of a slave, canonized by Pope Pius VII, May 24th, 1807 - Carletti, Giuseppe New York : P.J. Kenedy 1895 14.5mb (PDF)

The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm, by Jesse Macy (TXT)

Benjamin Drew, Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives (ca. 1850)

Remarks on the slave trade, and the slavery of the negroes. In a series of letters. London, 1788

Bradburn, Samuel. An address, to the people called Methodists; concerning the wickedness of encouraging slavery. By Samuel Bradburn. The fourth edition. London, 1792. 22pp

Burgess, Thomas. Considerations on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, upon grounds of natural, religious, and political duty. Oxford, 1789. 171pp. (PDF)

Atwood, Thomas. Observations on the true methods of treatment & usage of the Negro slaves, in the British West-India Islands. ... [London], [1789]. 18pp. (PDF)

Considerations on the continuance of the slave trade, and of the use of slaves in the British colonies. London, 1788. 27pp (PDF)

Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron. The opening of the case in support of the petitions of the merchants of London and Liverpool, against the bill to prohibit the trading for ... [London], [1799]. 21pp (PDF)

Title A Yankee in Canada. With anti-slavery and reform papers
Creator Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Publisher Boston Houghton, Mifflin
Date 1888

Title A true relation of the travels and perilous adventures of Mathew Dudgeon, gentleman: wherein is truly set down the manner of his taking, the long time of his slavery in Algiers, and means of his delivery
Creator Huth, Alfred Henry, 1850-1910
Publisher London, New York : Longmans, Green, and co.
Date 1894

Title Scenery, science and art; being extracts from the note-book of a geologist and mining engineer
Creator Ansted, D. T. (David Thomas), 1814-1880
Publisher London : J. Van Voorst
Date 1854

Title A reply to "The affectionate and Christian address of many thousands of women of Great Britain and Ireland, to their sisters, the women of the United states of America." By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, in behalf of many thousands of American women
Creator Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Publisher London : S. Low, Son, and co.
Date 1863

Title Treasured moments: being a compilation of letters on various topics, written at different times, and in different countries. Together with notes, incidents of travel and reminiscences of men and things
Creator Sawtell, Eli N
Publisher London : R.K. Burt [etc., etc.]
Date 1860

Title A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman
Creator Woolman, John, 1720-1772
Publisher Philadelphia : printed by Joseph Crukshank
Date 1774

Title The President's words : a selection of passages from the speeches, addresses, and letters of Abraham Lincoln ..
Creator Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Creator Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Publisher Boston : Walker, Fuller, and Company
Date 1865

Title Abraham Lincoln, and the downfall of American slavery
Creator Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903
Publisher New York [etc.] G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date 1894

Title The Liberty bell
Creator Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair
Creator National Anti-slavery Bazaar (Boston, Mass.)
Creator Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885

American Scenes, and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Author: Davies, Ebenezer

Slavery
James Reddie
Anthropological Review, Vol. 2, No. 7. (Nov., 1864), pp. 280-293.

Colonel William Byrd on Slavery and Indented Servants, 1736, 1739
The American Historical Review, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Oct., 1895), pp. 88-90.

[Letter to the Society Regarding the Subject of Slavery]
George McHenry
Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. 4. (1866), pp. cviii-cx.

On the Existing Connection Between American Slavery and the British Cotton Manufacture
J. T. Danson
Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 20, No. 1. (Mar., 1857), pp. 1-21.

The Extinction of Slavery in Brazil, from a Practical Point of View
Anthropological Review, Vol. 6, No. 20. (Jan., 1868), pp. 56-63.

The cotton trade : its bearing upon the prosperity of Great Britain and commerce of the American republics, considered in connection with the system of negro slavery in the Confederate States , McHenry, George , London : Saunders, Otley , 1863 (41mb)

Cotton as a world power; a study in the economic interpretation of history
Scherer, James A. B. (James Augustin Brown), 1870-1944 , New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company [c1916] (31mb)

The social condition of labor , Gould, Elgin Ralston Lovell, 1860-1915 , Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins press , 1893 (61mb)

The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery: how it came into the world and how it shall be made to go out , O'Brien, James Bronterre, 1805-1864 , London, Reeves , 1885 (19mb)

The Methodist Church property case. Report of the suit of Henry Bascom, and others, vs. George Lane, and others, heard before the judges Nelson and Betts, in the Circuit Court, United States, for the Southern District of New York, May 17-20, 1851
Bascom, H. B. (Henry Bidleman), 1796-1850, plaintiff
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Claims. Report to accompany Senate Res. no. 382
U. S. Circuit Court (2d. Circuit)
Sutton, Richard, 1807 or 8-1878
Lane, George, 1783-1859, defendant
New York : Lane & Scott
1851 (55mb)

National sermons. Sermons, speeches and letters on slavery and its war: from the passage of the Fugitive slave bill to the election of President Grant , Haven, Gilbert, bp., 1821-1880 ,Boston, Lee and Shepard , 1869

The just supremacy of Congress over the territories, Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894 , Boston A. Williams , 1859 (5mb)

The war powers of the President : and the legislative powers of Congress in relation to rebellion, treason and slavery , Whiting, William, 1813-1873 , Boston : J.L. Shorey , 1863 (18mb)

Black code of Illinois , Eastman, Zebina, 1815-1883 , [Chicago? : s.n. 1883]

History and report of the Exhibition and celebration to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro : held at the Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, August 22nd to September 16th, nineteen hundred and fifteen
Creator Exhibition and celebration to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the Negro (1915 : Chicago, Ill.) , Chicago, Ill. : Fraternal Press , [1915]

Extinction of villenage and slavery in England; with Somerset's case , Washburn, Emory , Boston, Printed by John Wilson and Son , 1864

Brazil viewed through a naval glass: with notes on slavery and the slave trade , Wilberforce, Edward, 1834-1914 , London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
, 1856 (21mb)

Title Slavery in early Texas. 2 pts
Creator Bugbee, Lester G. (Lester Gladstone)
Publisher Boston, Ginn & co.
Date 1898

Title More thoughts occasioned by two publications which the authors call "An exposure of some of the numerous misstatements and misrepresentations contained in a pamphlet commonly known by the name of Mr. Marryst's pamphlet, entitled Thoughts &c.", and "A defence of the bill for the registration of slaves"
Creator Marryat, Joseph, 1757-1824
Publisher London J.M. Richardson
Date 1816 (21mb)

Title Proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention, called by the committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and held in London from Tuesday June 13th to Tuesday June 20th, 1843
Creator British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society
Creator Johnson, J. F
Publisher London, John Snow
Date [1843] (18mb)

Title The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern. The forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome. The African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States. Compiled from authentic materials
Creator Blake, W. O. (William O.)
Publisher Columbus, O., Published and sold exclusively by subscription by H. Miller
Date 1859

Title A practical view of the present state of slavery in the West Indies; or, An examination of Mr. Stephen's "Slavery of the British West India colonies." Containing more particularly an account of the actual condition of the negroes in Jamaica ... By Alexander Barclay ..
Creator Barclay, Alexander, 1785-1864
Creator Jamaica. Laws, etc. (Laws of Jamaica : Rev. ed.)
Publisher London, Smith, Elder & Co.
Date 1827

Title An historical sketch of slavery, from the earliest period
Creator Cobb, Thomas Read Rootes, 1823-1862
Publisher Philadelphia T. & J.W. Johnson
Date 1858 (13mb)

Title A life for liberty : anti-slavery and other letters of Sallie Holley
Creator Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893
Creator Chadwick, John White, 1840-1904
Publisher New York : G.P. Putnam
Date 1899 (9.6mb)

Title A scriptural, ecclesiastical, and historical view of slavery, from the days of the patriarch Abraham, to the nineteenth century
Creator Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868
Creator Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865
Publisher New York W.I. Pooley
Date [1864] (15mb)

Title The address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention : held at Cincinnati, June 11 & 12, 1845, to the people of the United States. With notes
Creator Southern and Western Liberty Convention, (1845 : Cincinnati, Ohio)
Creator Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
Creator Cleveland, Charles Dexter, 1802-1869
Creator A citizen of Pennsylvania
Publisher [Philadelphia : Office of the American Citizen
Date 1845]

Title The education of the Negro prior to 1861 : a history of the education of the colored people of the United States from the beginning of slavery to the Civil War
Creator Woodson, Carter Godwin, 1875-
Publisher New York : Putnam
Date 1915

Title A modern slavery
Creator Nevinson, Henry Woodd, 1856-1941
Publisher London New York, Harper & brothers
Date 1906

Title History of the rise and fall of the slave power in America
Creator Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875
Publisher Boston, Osgood
Date 1873-7
Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3

Title Letters to the Hon. William Jay, being a reply to his "Inquiry into the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies"
Creator Reese, David Meredith, 1800-1861
Publisher New York, Leavitt
Date 1835 (5.4mb)

Title 6th annual Report
Creator American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher New York (5.6mb)

Title 3rd annual Report
Creator American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher New York (4.6mb)

Title Society of Friends in the United States: their views of the anti-slavery question, and treatment of the people of colour : compiled from original correspondence
Creator Bassett, William
Publisher Darlington [Eng.] : Wilson
Date 1840

Title Negro slavery; or, A view of some of the more prominent features of that state of Society, as it exists in the United States of America and in the colonies of the West Indies, especially in Jamaica
Publisher London Hatchard [etc.]
Date 1823 (5.9mb)

Title A letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, representative in Congress from the city of Boston, in reply to his apology for voting for the Fugitive slave bill
Creator Dexter, Franklin, 1793-1857
Creator Jay, William, 1789-1858
Creator Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1798-1862
Publisher Boston W. Crosby & H.P. Nichols
Date 1851 (5.7mb)

Title Two tracts for the times. The one entitled "Negro-slavery, no evil": by B.F. Stringfellow, of Missouri. The other, An answer to the inquiry "Is it expedient to introduce slavery into Kanzas?" by D.R. Goodloe, of North Carolina. Republished by the N.E. Emigrant Aid Co
Creator New England Emigrant Aid Compan, Boston
Creator Stringfellow, B. F
Creator Goodloe, D. R
Publisher Boston A. Mudge and son, Printers
Date 1855 (6.5mb)