North America

The Selling of Joseph, Samuel Sewall (Boston, 1700)

An Essay on the Merchandize of Slaves and Souls of Men, Paul Dudley (Boston, 1732)

All Slave-Keepers That keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates, Benjamin Lay (Philadelphia, 1737)

Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes; with some Advice thereon, extracted from the Epistle of the Yearly-Meeting of the People called Quakers, held at London in the Year 1748 (Germantown, 1760)

Some Historical Account of Guinea…With an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, 1442-1771, Anthony Benezet (Philadelphia, 1771)

A Dissuasion to Great-Britain and the Colonies: from the Slave-Trade to Africa, James Swan (Boston, 1773)

An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, Upon Slave-Keeping, Benjamin Rush (Philadelphia, 1773)

Notes on the Slave Trade, Anthony Benezet (ca. 1780)

Letter from…in London, to his Friend in America, on the…Slave Trade (New York, 1784)

An Address to the Public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery,a nd the Relief of Free Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage (Philadelphia, 1789)

Constitution of a Society for Abolishing the Slave-Trade (Providence, 1789)

An Essay on the African Slave Trade (Philadelphia, 1790)

The African Slave Trade. A Discourse delivered…September, 9, 1790, before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, James Dana (New Haven, 1791)

The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans, Jonathan Edwards (New Haven, 1791)

Memorials presented to the Congress of the United States of America, by the Different Societies instituted for promoting the Abolition of Slavery… (Philadelphia, 1792)

A Discourse…in Grateful Celebration of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the Governments of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark, Jedidiah Morse (Boston, 1808)

An Oration commemorative of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the United States…, Joseph Sidney (New York, 1809)

An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, George Lawrence (New York, 1813)

A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery…and a Project of Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour, Jesse Torrey (Philadelphia, 1817)

Rev. Dr. Richard Furman’s Exposition of the Views of the Baptists, Relative to the Coloured Population of the United States, Richard Furman (Charleston, 1823)

A Sketch of the Laws relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America, George M. Stroud (Philadelphia, 1827)

An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, David Walker (Boston, 1830) 

The Religious Instruction of the Negroes, Charles Colcock Jones (1832)

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

Proceedings at Boston, May 27, 1834, New England Anti-Slavery Convention (Boston, 1834)

Lectures on Slavery, Benjamin Godwin (Boston, 1836)

Address to the Citizens of the United States of America on the subject of Slavery (New York, 1837)

Narrative of My Escape from Slavery, Moses Roper (1837)

Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man, Charles Ball (New York, 1837)

Speech of Mr. Vanderpoel, of New York, on the Resolution Declaring that Slaves have no Right to Petition Congress (Washington, 1837)

A Letter to W. E. Channing, D.D., on the Subject of the Abuse of the Flag of the United States in the Island of Cuba, and the Advantage taken of its Protection in promoting the Slave Trade, R. R. Madden (Boston, 1839)

American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, eds. Angelina Grimké and Theodore Dwight Weld (New York, 1839)

A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery, William Jay (New York, 1839)

Extracts and Observations on the Foreign Slave Trade (Philadelphia, 1839)

Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery, William Jay (New York, 1839)

Remarks upon Slavery and the Slave-Trade, addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay (1839)

Argument of Roger S. Baldwin, of New Haven, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans of the Amistad, R. S. Baldwin (New York, 1841)

Facts and Observations relative to the Participation of American Citizens in the African Slave Trade (Philadelphia, 1841)

Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade in the United States (Philadelphia, 1841)

An Examination of the Question, Now in Discussion…Concerning the Right of Search, Lewis Cass (Philadelphia, 1842)

The Creole Case, and Mr. Webster’s Despatch; with the comments of the New York “American” (New York, 1842)

The Duty of Free States, or Remarks suggested by the case of the Creole, William Ellery Channing (Boston, 1842)

A Brief Statement of the Rise and Progress of the Testimony of the Religious Society of Frends against Slavery and the Slave Trade (Philadelphia, 1843)

The Foulahs of Central Africa, and the African Slave Trade, William B. Hodgson (New York, 1843)

An Appeal on the Iniquity of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Cincinnati, 1844)

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America (Boston, 1844)

Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke during a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years Amongst the Algerines of Kentucky, Lewis Clarke (Boston, 1845)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Frederick Douglass (1845)

The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, William W. Brown (1847)

Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings, William Wells Brown (Boston, 1849) 

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, Josiah Henson (Boston, 1849)

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Henry Bibb (New York, 1849)

Speech of Charles W. Upham, of Salem, in the House of Representatives, Massachusetts, on the Compromises of the Constitution, with an appendix containing the Ordinance of 1787, Charles W. Upham (Salem, 1849)

Remarks on the Colonization of the Western Coast of Africa, by the free Negroes of the United States (New York, 1850)

An Exposition of the African Slave Trade, from the year 1840, to 1850… (Philadelphia, 1851)

Aunt Phillis’s Cabin, Mary H. Eastman (Philadelphia, 1852)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (Boston, 1852)

The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: its Distinctive Features shown by its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts, William Goodell (New York, 1853)

The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists and How it May be Extinguished, Henry C. Carey (Philadelphia, 1853)

Africa and the American Flag, Andrew H. Foote (New York, 1854)

The American Planter: or The Bound Interest in the United States, M. A. Juge (New York, 1854)

The Planter’s Northern Bride, Caroline Lee Hentz (1854)

My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass (1855)

Personal Memoir, etc. Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl, Daniel Drayton (Boston, 1855)

Slavery and Anti-Slavery; A History of the Great Struggle in both Hemispheres; with a view of the Slavery Question in the United States, William Goodell (New York, 1855)

Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup (New York, 1855)

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, Frederick Law Olmstead (New York, 1856)

Address on Re-opening the Slave Trade, C. W. Miller (Columbia, 1857)

Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, George Fitzhugh (Richmond, 1857)

Ethiopia: Her Gloom and Glory, As Illustrated in the History of the Slave Trade, David Christy (Cincinnati, 1857)

The Impending Crisis of the South, Hinton Rowan Helper (New York, 1857)

Speech…on the Revival of the African Slave Trade, Emerson Etheridge (Washington, 1857)

An Historical Sketch of Slavery, from the Earliest Periods, T. R. R. Cobb (Philadelphia, 1858)

The Appeal of the Religious Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, etc.,…to their Fellow-Citizens of the United States on behalf of the Coloured Races (Philadelphia, 1858)

Argument against the Policy of Reopening the African Slave Trade, Robert G. Harper (Atlanta, 1858)

Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave, Charles Ball (New York, 1858)

The Foreign Slave Trade, the Source of Political Power, L. W. Spratt (Charleston, 1858)

Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America, T. R. R. Cobb (Philadelphia, 1858)

The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States, John Codman Hurd, 2 vols. (Boston and New York, 1858-1862)

Southern Institutes; or, An Inquiry into the Origin and Early Prevalence of Slavery and the Slave-Trade, George S. Sawyer (Philadelphia, 1858)

Speech upon the Foreign Slave Trade, before the Legislature of South Carolina, L. W. Spratt (Columbia, 1858)

Black Diamonds gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South, Edward A. Pollard (New York, 1859)

History of the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern, W. O. Blake (Columbus, 1859)

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, Austin Steward (Rochester, 1859)

The African Slave Trade, Rufus W. Clark (Boston, 1860)

The Interest of Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder, J. D. B. DeBow (Charleston, 1860)

Revelations of a Slave Smuggler: Being the Autobiography of Capt. Richard Drake…, Richard Drake (New York, 1860)

Social Relations in Our Southern States, D. R. Hundley (New York, 1860)

Southern Wealth and Northern Profits, Thomas P. Kettell (New York, 1860)

The Cotton Kingdom, Frederick Law Olmstead, 2 vols. (New York, 1861)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs (Boston, 1861)

The African Slave Trade: The Secret Purpose of the insurgents to Revive it, (Philadelphia, 1863)

By Authority of Congress: The Statutes at Large of the Provision Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, Feb. 8, 1861, to its Termination, Feb. 18, 1862, ed. James M. Matthews (Richmond, 1864)

Report on the Condition of the South, Carl Schurz (Washington, 1865)

Voyages of the Slavers St. John and Arms of Amsterdam, 1659, 1663…, E. B. O’Callaghan, trans., New York Colonial Tracts no. 3

Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, Elizabeth Keckley (New York, 1868)

Speeches on Political Questions, George W. Julian (New York, 1872)

Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (Washington, 1872)

Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800…, William F. Poole (Cincinnati, 1873)

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass (1881)

Memoirs of Samuel S. Janney: Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va., Samuel Janney (Philadelphia, 1881)

Reminiscences, Lucy Colman (Buffalo, 1891)

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, Susie King Taylor (Boston, 1902)

Twenty-Eight Years a Slave, or the Story of My Life in Three Continents, Thomas Johnson (Bournemouth, 1909)

Great Britain

The Several Declarations of the Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa, inviting all His Majesties Native Subjects in general to Subscribe, and become Sharers in their Joynt-stock, Company of Royal Adventurers (London, 1667)

A New Account of some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade, William Snelgrave (London, 1734)

The African Trade, the Great Pillar and Support of the British Plantation in America (London, 1745)

A Short Account of that part of Africa Inhabited by the Negroes…and the Manner by which the Slave Trade is carried on (London, 1768, 3rd edition)

A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery…, Granville Sharp (London, 1769)

A Treatise upon the Trade from Great-Britain to Africa; Humbly recommended to the Attention of Government (London, 1772)

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Phillis Wheatley (London, 1773)

The Just Limitation of Slavery in the Laws of God, Granville Sharp (London, 1776)

The Case of our Fellow-Creatures, the Oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the Serious Consideration of the Legislature of Great-Britain, by the People called Quakers (London, 1783)

An inquiry into the Effects of putting a Stop to the African Slave Trade, and of granting Liberty to the Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies, James Ramsay (London, 1784)

A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions, Anthony Benezet (London, 1785)

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African, Thomas Clarkson (London, 1786)

Letters on the Slave Trade, Thomas Cooper (Manchester, 1787)

An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa, Alexander Falconbridge (London, 1788)

An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade, Thomas Clarkson (London, 1788)

Objections to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, with Answers, James Ransey (London, 1788, 2nd edition)

An Essay on the Comparative Efficiency of Regulation or Abolition, as applied to the Slave Trade, Thomas Clarkson (London, 1789)

A Short Account of the African Slave-Trade, Robert Norris (London, 1789)

The Interesting Narrative of the Live of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, Olaudah Equiano (London, 1789)

Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday and Tuesday, April 18 and 19, 1791 (London, 1791)

Observations on the Evidence given before the Committees of the Privy Council and House of Commons in Support of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, John Ranby (London, 1791)

A Short Sketch of the Evidence for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade (London, 1792)

Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade and its effect on Africa, addressed to the People of Great Britain, John Pennington (London, 1792)

The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Thomas Clarkson, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1808)

The Substance of a Course of Lectures on British Colonial Slavery…, Benjamin Godwin (London, 1830)

The Foreign Slave Trade, A Brief Account of its State, of the Treaties which have been entered into, and of the Laws enacted for its Suppression…, London Anti-Slavery Society (London, 1837)

A Letter on the Slave Trade still carried on along the Eastern Coast of Africa, F. T. Texugo (London, 1839)

The African Slave Trade and its Remedy, Thomas Fowell Buston (London, 1840)

Proceedings at the first Public Meeting, held at Exeter Hall, on Monday, 1st June, 1840, London Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade, and for the Civilization of Africa (London, 1840)

Travels in the West. Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave Trade, David Turnbull (London, 1840)

Proceedings of the General Anti-Slavery Convention, Called by the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and Held in London, British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (London, 1841)

Enquiry into the Validity of the British Claim to a Right of Visitation and Search of American Vessels suspected to be engaged in the African Slave-Trade, Henry Wheaton (Philadelphia, 1842)

Letters on the Slave-Trade, Slavery, and Emancipation, George Willaim Alexander (London, 1842)

Some Account of the Trade in Slaves from Africa as connected with Europe and America, James Bandinel (London, 1842)

The Fugitive Blacksmith: Or Events in the Life of James W. C. Pennington, J. W. C. Pennington (London, 1849)

The Jamaica Movement, for promoting the Enforcement of the Slave-Trade Treaties, and the Suppression of the Slave-Trade…, John Codman Hurd (London, 1850)

Notes on the Slave Trade; with Remarks on the Measures adopted for its Suppression, W. G. Ouseley (London, 1850)

Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, relative to the Slave Trade, 1859-1860 (London, 1860)

Modern Slavery and the Slave Trade, William Brodie (London, 1860)

The Slave Power: Its Character, Career, and Probable Designs, John Elliot Cairnes (London, 1862)

Documentary Collections and Edited Volumes

A Documentary History of Slavery in North America, ed. Willie Lee Rose (New York, 1976)

A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, ed. Herbert Aptheker, 2 vols. (New York, 1951)

Advice Among Masters: The Ideal in Slave Management in the Old South, ed. James O. Breeden (Westport, 1980)

After the War: a tour of the Southern States, 1865-1866, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New York, 1965)

A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865, ed. Masion I. Lowance, Jr. (Princeton, 2003)

A Life for Liberty: Anti-Slavery and Other Letters of Sallie Holley, ed. John White Chadwick (New York, 1969)

American Antislavery Songs: A Collection and Analysis, ed. Wicki L. Eaklors (Westport, 1988)

American Negro Folktales, ed. Richard M. Dorson (Greenwich, 1967)

American Negro Slavery, ed. Michael Mullin (New York, 1976)

The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, 39 vols. (Westport, 1972-1979)

Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westwover, 1739-1741, with Letters & literary Exercieses, 1696-1726, ed. Maude H. Woodfin (Richmond, 1942)

Articles on American Slavery, ed. Paul Finkelman (New York, 1989)

The Black Abolitionist Papers, eds. C. Peter Ripley, et al., 5 vols. (Chapel Hill, 1985-1991) 

Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White, ed. Graham Russell Hodges (Madison, 1993) 

Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents, ed. Kenneth S. Greenberg (Boston, 1996)

Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves, ed. Robert S. Starobin (New York, 1974)

Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways int eh Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1790, eds. Bill G. Smitha and Richard Wojtowicz (Philadelphia, 1989)

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments, ed. E. N. Elliott (New York, 1968)

Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing, ed. Deirdre Mullane (New York, 1993)

Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy of 1822, ed. Edward A. Pearson (Chapel Hill, 1999)

The Diaries of George Washington, 1748-1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, 4 vols. (Boston and New York, 1925)

The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, 1752-1778, ed. Jack P. Greene (Charlottesville, 1965)

The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, ed. William Kauffman Scarborough (Baton Rouge, 1972)

Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America, ed. Elizabeth Donnan, 4 vols. (1930-1935)

Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837, ed. Dorothy Porter (Boston, 1971)

“Early Proslavery Petitions in Virginia,” Fredrika Teute Schmidt and Barbara Ripel Wilhelm, William and Mary Quarterly 30 (January 1973): 133-146

Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, ed. Fletcher M. Green (Chapel Hill, 1961)

Florida Plantation Records from the Papers of George Noble Jones, eds. Ulrich B. Philips and James David Glunt (St. Louis, 1927)

Four Fugitive Slave Narratives, ed. Robin W. Winks, et al. (Reading, 1969)

Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings, ed. Philip Foner (Mineola, 2003)

Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip Foner (Chicago, 1999)

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, eds. Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge and New York, 1983)

His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad, ed. Stuart Seely Sprague (New York, 1996)

The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860, ed. Drew Gilpin Faust (Baton Rouge, 1981)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (Cambridge, 1987)

Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-1774: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, ed. Hunter Dickinson Farish (Charlottesville, 1968)

The Journal and Major Essays of John Wooolman, ed. Phillips S. Moulton (1989)

The Journal of Charlotte Forten, ed. Ray Allen Billington (New York, 1953)

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, Frances Anne Kemble (Chicago, 1969)

Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro, ed. Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, 5 vols. (1926-1937)

The Letterbook of Elisa Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762, ed. Elise Pinckney (Chapel Hill, 1972)

The Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne Written from the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862 – 1884, ed. Rupert Sargent Holland (New York, 1969)

Letters of Theodore Dwight Weld, Angelina Grimké Weld and Sarah Grimké, eds. Gilbert H. Barnes and Dwight L. Dumond, 2 vols. (New York, 1934)

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, eds. Walter M. Merrill and Louis Ruchames, 5 vols. (Cambridge, 1971-1979)

Life and Labor on Argyle Island: Letters and Documents of a Savannah River Rice Plantation, 1833-1867, James M. Clifton (Savannah, 1978)

Life under the “Peculiar Institution”: Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection, ed. Norman R. Yetman (New York, 1970)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, unexpurgated Text, ed. Harold Holzer (New York, 1993)

Maria Stewart: America’s First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches, ed. Marilyn Richardson (Bloomington, 1987)

Mary Chestnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New York, 1981)

Meteor of War: The John Brown Story, eds. John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd (Maplecrest, 2004)

The Missouri Compromise and Presidential Politics, 1820 – 1825: Letters from William Plumer, Jr., ed. Everett Somerville Brown (St. Louis, 1926)

Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, ed. Kenneth S. Greenberg (New York, 2003)

Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African American Protest Literature, eds. Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, and Phillip Lapansky (New York, 2001)

Plantation and Frontier, ed. Ulrich B. Philips, vols. I and II of A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, ed. John R. Commons, et al. (Cleveland, 1910)

Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana, 1836-1846, as Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow, ed. Adams Davis (New York, 1943)

Planter Management and Capitalism in Ante-Bellum Georgia: The Journal of Hugh Fraser Grant, ed. Albert Virgil House (New York, 1954)

The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings, 1835 – 1839, ed. Larry Ceplair (New York, 1989)

The Refuge: A North-Side View of Slavery, ed. Benjamin drew (Reading, 1969)

Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790, ed. Lathan A. Windley, 4 vols. (Westport, 1983)

Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder, ed. Carol Bleser (New York, 1988)

The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712, eds. Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling (Richmond, 1941)

Six Women’s Slave Narratives, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New York, 1988)

Slavery Attacked: The Abolitionist Crusade, ed. John L. Thomas (New York, 1965)

Slavery, Race and the American Legal System, 1700-1872, Paul Finkelman, 16 vols. (New York, 1988)

Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies, ed. John W. Blassingame (Baton Rouge, 1977)

The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F. W. Allston, ed. J. H. Easterby (Chicago, 1945)

The South Hampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material, ed. Henry Irving Tragle (New York, 1971)

The Southern Debate over Slavery, ed. Loren Schweniger, 2 vols. (Urbana, 2001, 2007)

The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters, ed. John Spencer Bassett (Northampton, 1925)

This Fiery Trial: The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. William E. Gienapp (New York, 2002)

Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings, ed. Edwin Morris Betts (Princeton, 1953)

The Three Sarahs: Documents of Antebellum Black College Women, eds. Ellen MicKenzie Lawson and Marlene D. Merrill (New York, 1984)

To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln, ed. Jonathan W. White (Chapel Hill, 2021)

The Underground Railroad: A Records of the Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, etc. Narrating the 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, ed. William Still (Philadelphia, 1872)

Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves, eds. Charles L. Perdue, Jr., et al (Charlottesville, 1976)

William Fitzhugh and His Chesapeake World, 1676-1701: The Fitzhugh Letters and Other Documents, ed. Richard Beale Davis (Chapel Hill, 1963)

William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery: Selections from the Liberator, ed. William E. Cain (Boston, 1995)

Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation, ed. C. Peter Ripley (Chapel Hill, 1993)

The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist, ed. John Stauffer (New York, 2006)