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    American slavery as it is; testimony of a thousand witnesses

    free download
  • Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

    Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

    free download
  • Biography of an American Bondman front cover

    Biography of an American Bondman by his Daughter

    free download
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl front cover

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    free download
  • Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation

    Journal of a Residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863)

    free download
  • Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S. C. volunteers

    Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops

    free download
  • Running a thousand miles for freedom; : or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery

    Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

    free download
  • Silvia Dubois : A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom front cover

    Silvia Dubois : A Biografy of the Slav Who Whipt her Mistres and Gand her Fredom

    free download
  • The Bondwoman's narrative / by Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave recently escaped from North Carolina front cover

    The Bondwoman’s narrative / by Hannah Crafts, a fugitive slave recently escaped from North Carolina

    free download
  • Colored patriots of the US Revolution cover

    The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution: With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons

    free download
  • The House of Bondage: or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves front cover

    The House of Bondage: or Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves (1890)

    free download
  • The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman. front cover

    The narrative of Bethany Veney, a slave woman

    free download
  • What Became Of The Slaves On A Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale Of Slaves, At Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859. A Sequel To Mrs. Kemble's Journal

    What Became Of The Slaves On A Georgia Plantation?: Great Auction Sale Of Slaves, At Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859. A Sequel To Mrs. Kemble’s Journal

    free download

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