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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

American Slavery as it is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses   by American Anti-Slavery Society   1839   Goo

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 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.    by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.   Philadelphia,: J. Rakestraw, printer, 1851.   MoA 

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 Massachusetts historical society. August 14, 1862.   by George Livermore, 1809-1865.  MoA 

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

Parties and Slavery, 1850-1859   by Theodore Clarke Smith 1906   Goo 

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. Cincinnati : L. Swormstedt & J.H. Power, 1851, 1850    MoA

Sketches of slave life, or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'    by Peter Randolph, an emancipated slave. Boston : Published for the Author, 1855     MoA

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 America, and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies.   by  Sir Arthur Helps, 1813-1875.  MoA   vol 1    vol 2    vol 4

Speech of Hon. J. Collamer, of Vermont, on slavery in the territories.: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Mar. 8, 1860.   by Jacob Collamer, 1791-1865.  [Washington]: Printed by L. Towers, [1860]   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   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 Natchez :  1852    MoA

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.  Auburn : Derby and Miller, 1853.   MoA.

The Underground Rail Road   by William Still, an 1872   ABL