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The abolitionists, together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, 1830-1864 John Ferguson Hume, b. 1830. NY 1905 UCa
An
account of some of the principal slave insurrections… attempted, in the
United States and elsewhere, during the last two centuries...
by Joshua Coffin, 1792-1864.
MoA
An Address Delivered Before the Colonization Society of Kentucky [re: sending freed slaves to Liberia] by Robert J. Breckinridge, 1800-1871. 1831 KDL
American churches the bulwarks of American slavery James Gillespie Birney, 1792-1857 KDL
The American conflict: a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65: its causes, incidents, and results: intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the war for the union. by Horace Greeley, 1811-1872 Hartford, O. D. Case & co. ; Chicago, O. D. Case & co. 1866 MoA vol 1 vol 2
The American Indian as slaveholder and secessionist; an omitted
chapter in the diplomatic history of the Southern Confederacy
by
Abel, Annie Heloise, 1873- Cleveland
: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1915 OpL
vol 1
vol
2
American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor As Determined by the Plantation Regime, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Gut
The Anti-Slavery Examiner (full serial archives) UPa
Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life. Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair Thompson, Matilda G. Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, Printers, 1855 UNC
Aunt Sally: or, The Cross the Way of Freedom. A Narrative of the Slave-life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan by Isaac Williams, Isaac Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858 UNC
Black race; reflections on its position & destiny, as connected with our American dispensation. Discourse, Ken… by Robert J. Breckinridge, 1800-1871. 1851 KDL
Congressional Intervention in Regard to Slavery in the Territories, by Lawrence O'Brien Branch MoA
Detail of a plan for the moral improvement of Negroes on plantations: Read Before the Georgia... by Thomas Savage Clay, 1833 Goo
Ellen: or, The Chained Mother; and Pictures of Kentucky Slavery, by Mary B. Harlan ISU
Evils of Necessity: Robert Goodloe Harper and the Moral Dilemma of Slavery by Eric Robert Papenfuse 1997 Goo
An exposition of the
African slave trade, from the year 1840, to 1850, inclusive. Prepared from
official documents, and published by direction of the representatives of the
Religious society of friends, in
Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America Harry Smith, b. 1815? Grand Rapids, MI: West Michigan Printing Co., 1891 UNC
Hair-breadth Escapes from Slavery to Freedom William Troy, b. 1827 Manchester: Bremner, 1861 UNC
An historical research
respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on negroes as slaves,
as citizens, and as soldiers. Read before the
History of Great Crossings Church by
John Nicholas Bradley. Goo
A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, by the Africans on Board; Their Voyage, and Capture Near Long Island, New York; with Biographical Sketches of Each of the Surviving Africans;.. Account of the Trials..District and Circuit Courts… for the District of Connecticut by John Warner Barber, 1798-1885, compiled by New Haven, Ct.: E.L. & J.W. Barber, 1840 UNC
History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth United-States... by Henry Wilson, 1864 Goo
Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations. The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars…Extracts from the Laws of Virginia… Simpson, John Hawkins London: A.W. Bennett, 1863 UNC
Involuntary, unmerited, perpetual, absolute, hereditary slavery, examined: on the principles of nature, reason by David Barrow, 1753-1819. 1801 LC
Lectures on the philosophy and practice of slavery,: as exhibited in the institution of domestic slavery in the United States: with the duties of masters to slaves, by William Andrew Smith, 1802-1870. MoA
Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-four Years a Slave; Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times!!! .…Simple and Easy Plan to Abolish Slavery in the US. . ..Colored Men in the Revolutionary War… by William J. Anderson, b1811 Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857 UNC
Lynch-law: An Investigation Into
the
History
of Lynching in the United States
by James Elbert Cutler
1905
Goo
Maryland
Ancestors Who Were Slaves
vol 365
MDArch
Negro Slavery Described by a
Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's; With an
Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned
from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists
by Ashton Warner and Susanna Moodie London:
Samuel Maunder, 1831
UNC
A North-side
View of Slavery: The Refugee: Or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
...
by
Benjamin Drew. 1856
Goo
Old Plantation
Hymns: A Collection of Hitherto
Unpublished Melodies of the Slave and the...
by
William Eleazar Barton 1899
Goo
Ought American slavery to be perpetuated? A debate between Rev. W.G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne ; held at Philadelphia, September, 1858 by William Gannaway Brownlow, 1805-1877. J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1858 MoA
The Political History of Slavery in the United States. by James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell. 1915 Goo
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 MoA
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad by Levi Coffin MoA
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the Underground Railroad : being a brief history of the labors of a lifetime in behalf of the slave ; with the stories of numerous fugitives… by Levi Coffin, 1798-1877. Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1876 MoA
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a slave and as a freema : a narrative of real life. by Jermain Wesley Loguen, 1814-1872. New York : Negro Universities Press 1968 MoA
Shall the Territories be Africanized? by James Harlan MoA
Sinfulness of American slavery:…its evil effect; obsertions on emancipation, and
the duties of American citizens in regard to slavery.
by Rev. Charles Elliott, D.D. 1792-1869 ; ed. B.F. Tefft.
Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'
by Peter Randolph, an
emancipated slave.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Selected Records Bearing on the History of the Slave Narratives. Gut Selected Records Indiana Narratives
Slavery in Missouri, 1804-1865. by Harrison Anthony Trexler. 1914 UMo
Slavery in the United States.: a narrative of the life and adventures of Charles Ball ... by Charles Bail. 1854 Goo
Southern slavery reduces northern wages: An address Weston, George M. (George Melville), 1816-1887. Washington,: 1856 MoA
The Spanish conquest in
Speech of
Hon. J. Collamer, of
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 MoA
Speech on the results of emancipation in the British W. I. colonies, delivered at the celebration of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, held at Abington, July 31, 1858 : phonographic report by J.M.W. Yerrinton: Henry Bleby, 1809-1882. MoA
Stories of the Underground Railroad by Anna L. Curtis, illust. by William Brooks 1941 Shc
Studies on slavery, in easy lessons [microform] / Compiled into eight studies,
and subdivided into short lessons for the convenience of readers.
by John Fletcher, 1791-1862.
J. Warner
Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen: Or, The "founders of the Republic" on Slavery. by Ezra B. Chase. 1860 Goo
Tracking The Underground Rail Road. by Jean M. Fox. The Farmington Hills (Mich) Historical Comm. 1993 FCL
Twelve years a slave [microform] : narrative of Solomon Northrup, citizen
of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and rescued in 1853 from a
cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana.
by Solomon Northup, b. 1808.
The Underground Rail Road
by William Still, an 1872 ABL