Slavery

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

This work is an autobiographical narrative by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved man who became a…

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams’s second volume, *History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880*,…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5 (192 ×) is a scholarly periodical that assembles articles, reports,…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery is Booker T. Washington’s autobiographical account, assembled from a series of articles that…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (1919) gathers a series of contemporary reports, speeches, and Senate…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the eleventh in a series of folk histories compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project for the…

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Canot, Theodore; Mayer, Brantz

The work is an autobiographical memoir that doubles as a first‑person account of a young sailor’s immersion…

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

The work is an autobiographical account by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved person from Maryland who…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3 (1918) is a scholarly periodical that gathers a variety of articles,…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

George Washington Williams

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

William Still

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916

Various

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

Various

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration

A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

Benjamin Griffith Brawley

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

American Anti-Slavery Society

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration