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 | Abolitionists Remember: Antislavery Autobiographies and the Unfinished Work of Emancipation ISBN: 9781469602271 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Autobiography; Autobiography -- African American authors; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States; Antislavery movemen; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World ISBN: 9780674970137 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Southern States -- Biography; Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography; Slaves -- Southern States -- Biography; Slave trade -- History; Southern States -- History -- 18th century; Southern States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery ISBN: 9781610750608 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Arkansas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slaves -- Arkansas -- Biography; African Americans -- Arkansas -- Interviews; Arkansas -- Biography; African Americans -- Arkansas -- History -- Sources; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship Between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress ISBN: 9780813134154 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Larrison Cecelia; Ballard Fanny Thruston; Slaves -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography; Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- Canada -- Biography; African American women -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography; Women W; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina ISBN: 9781604733129 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slaves -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Love -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century; Courtship -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- North Carolina -- Biography; Couples -- North Carolina -- Biography; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Delia''s Tears ISBN: 9780300163285 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slaves -- South Carolina -- Columbia Region -- Pictorial works; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Columbia Region -- Biography; Photography -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Photography -- Political aspects -- United States -- Histo; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Dunmore''s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, Scalping, Indian Politics, Runaway Slaves, and Two Illegal Royal Weddings ISBN: 9780813934259 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Dunmore -- John Murray -- Earl of 1732–1809; Governors -- Virginia -- Biography; Colonial administrators -- Virginia -- Biography; Scots -- Virginia -- Biography; Virginia -- Histor -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Virginia -- History -- 1775–1865; Vir; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Finding Charity''s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland ISBN: 9780820348797 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Folks Charity; African American women -- Maryland -- Biography; Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography; Faulk family; Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography; African American women -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century; African American wome; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master ISBN: 9780295804705 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mitchell Charles born 1847 -- Juvenile literature; Fugitive slaves -- Washington Territory -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Child slaves -- Washington Territory -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Blacks -- British Columbia -- Victoria -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba ISBN: 9780253017055 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Manzano Juan Francisco 1797–1854. Autobiografia; Slaves -- Cuba -- Biography; Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War ISBN: 9780252090844 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Nalle Charles ca. 1821–1875; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- Virginia -- Biography; Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Antislavery movements -- United States -- H; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From Bondage to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narratives ISBN: 9781613761274 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slave narratives -- United States; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Worcester -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family ISBN: 9780823239535 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mamout Yarrow 1736–1823; Mamout Yarrow 1736–1823 -- Family; Slaves -- Maryland -- Biography; Free African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography; African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography; Slavery -- Maryland -- History; African American families -- Mary; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives ISBN: 9781611171679 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of South Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slave narratives -- South Carolina; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography; Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- Sources; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New Jersey ISBN: 9781580467407 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slavery -- New Jersey -- History; Slaves -- New Jersey -- Biography; Slavery in literature; Melick Yombo b. ca. 1739; Melick Dick b. 1749; Buccau Quamino 1762–1850; Allinson William J. 1810-1874. Memoir of Quamino Buccau a pious Methodist; Mellic; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Peter''s War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution ISBN: 9780300142761 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Peter 1763–1791 or 92; Child slaves -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography; African American boys -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- Biography; Farm life -- Massachusetts -- Lincoln -- History -- 18th century; Lincoln (Mass.) -- Social life and customs --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage ISBN: 9780820347042 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wheatley Phillis 1753–1784; African American women poets -- Biography; Poets American -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775 -- Biography; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery ISBN: 9780813932408 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Goings Henry b. ca. 1810; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Freedmen -- United States -- Biography; African Americans -- Canada -- Biography; Slave narratives -- United States; Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; African Am; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery ISBN: 9780820340807 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Craft William; Craft Ellen; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- England -- Biography; Slaves -- Georgia -- Biography; Slaves’ writings American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition ISBN: 9780253026026 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slaveholders -- Ghana -- Biography; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Ghana -- History -- 20th century; Slavery -- Africa West -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Africa West -- History -- 20th cent; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community''s Struggle Toward Freedom ISBN: 9780813176680 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Holt Sandy 1824?-1896; African Americans -- Kentucky -- Biography; African American soldiers -- 19th century -- Biography; Slaves -- Kentucky -- Biography; Holt Joseph 1807-1894; Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Biography; Judges -- United States -- Biogra; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Spartacus ISBN: 9780674075801 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Spartacus d. 71 B.C.; Slaves -- Rome -- Biography; Gladiators -- Rome -- Biography; Soldiers -- Rome -- Biography; Rome -- History -- Servile Wars 135–71 B.C.; Slave insurrections -- Rome; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Strategies for Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia ISBN: 9780813928364 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slaves -- Virginia -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Slaves -- Virginia -- Biography; African Americans -- Virginia -- Interviews; Agent (Philosophy) -- Case studies; Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Virginia -- Race relations -- Histor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family ISBN: 9780820341927 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century; Women slaves -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Kitty 1822–1851 -- Biography; Slaveholders -- Georgia -- Biography; Andrew James O. (James Osgood) 1794–1871 -- Biography; Bishops -- Georgia -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland ISBN: 9781611171334 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of South Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kizell John ca. 1760–ca. 1830; African Americans -- Colonization -- Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone -- History -- To 1896; Slave trade -- Sierra Leone -- History; African American loyalists -- Biography; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography; Sierra Leone Co; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History ISBN: 9780813055930 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Vesey Denmark approximately 1767–1822; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Biography; Charleston (S. C.) -- History -- Slave Insurrection 1822; Slave insurrections -- South Carolina -- Charleston; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Fire of Freedom ISBN: 9781469601564 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.; African American legislators; African American abolitionists; Fugitive slaves; Reconstruction (U.S. hi; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Lives of Frederick Douglass ISBN: 9780674915268 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Douglass Frederick 1818–1895; African American abolitionists -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Slaves -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life ISBN: 9780815653691 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Syracuse University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Loguen Jermain Wesley; African American abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- Biography; Antislavery movements -- United States; Underground railroad; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies ISBN: 9780814723487 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Tituba; Arawak Indians -- Biography; Slaves -- Barbados -- Biography; Slaves -- Massachusetts -- Biography; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period ca. 1600–1775; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker ISBN: 9780674063297 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Walker Mary d. 1872; Walker Mary d. 1872 -- Family; Fugitive slaves -- Northeastern States -- Biography; Women slaves -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Biography; African American women -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography; Family reunions -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today''s Slaves ISBN: 9780801458323 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Slavery -- Case studies; Human trafficking -- Case studies; Forced labor -- Case studies; Prostitution -- Case studies; Slavery -- History -- 21st century; Slaves -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Venture Smith and the Business of Slavery and Freedom ISBN: 9781613760482 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Smith Venture 1729?–1805; Smith Venture 1729?–1805 -- Influence; Smith Venture 1729?–1805 -- Narrative of the life and adventures of Venture a native of Africa; Slaves -- Connecticut -- Biography; Free African Americans -- Connecticut -- Biography; ; ■ Detailed Information |