Underground Railroad and Antislavery
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Anti-Slavery Publications

An Essay on Liberty and Slavery, by Albert Taylor Bledsoe.  1856.
Full text available at University of Michigan, Making of America (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/)
Text url:  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=aBT7109

The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery Meetings, Compiled by William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave.  1848.
Full text available at Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Anti-Slavery-Harp.html

The Anti-Slavery Examiner--Omnibus, by the American Anti-Slavery Society.  1836.
Full text available in 52 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Anti-Slavery-Examiner-Omnibus.html

The Friend of Man, The New York State Anti-Slavery Society publication Index
Index to The Friend of Man, 1836-1842, the organ of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society, created by the Cornell University Library
Index url: https://fom.library.cornell.edu/

A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, by Jesse Torrey.  1817.
Full text available from Google Books: http://books.google.com/
Text url:  http://books.google.com/books?id=Ys8mW2gHcKMC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false

The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament, by Thomas Clarkson.  1808.
Full text available in 6 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/The-History-of-the-Rise-Progress-andx1865.html

The Liberator.  1831-1852, edited by William Lloyd Garrison.
Full text of selected articles and summaries of others.
Text url:  http://www.theliberatorfiles.com/

Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants, by Anthony Benezet.  1771.
Full text available in 3 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Some-Historical-Account-of-Guinea-Its.html

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 
Full text available in 12 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Uncle-Tom-s-Cabin.html

Pro-Slavery Publications

Slavery Ordained of God, by Rev. Frederick A. Ross, D.D.  1857.
Full text available in 2 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Slavery-Ordained-of-God.html

Slavery Narratives

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs (aka Linda Brent).  1861.
Full text available in 4 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Incidents-in-the-Life-of-a-Slave-Girl.html

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself.  1845.
Full text available in 3 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/6825.html

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, by William and Ellen Craft.
Full text available in 2 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Running-a-Thousand-Miles-for-Freedom.html

Slavery Narratives, Federal Writer's Project, Library of Congress
Full text of all narratives available from the Library of Congress (https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html)
Introduction url:  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Thirty Years a Slave, by Louis Hughes.
Full text available in 3 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Thirty-Years-a-Slave.html

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, by Austin Steward, 1856.
Full text available in 5 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Twenty-Two-Years-a-Slave-and-Forty-Years-a.html

Other Narratives

American Scenes, and Christian Slavery, by Ebenezer Davies.  1849
Full text available in 5 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/American-Scenes-and-Christian-Slavery.html

A Visit to the United States in 1841, by Joseph Sturge.  1842
Full text available in 6 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/A-Visit-To-The-United-States-In-1841.html

Half a Century, by Jane Gray Cannon Swisshelm.  1880.
Full text available in 6 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Half-a-Century.html

Isaac T. Hopper, by L. Maria Child.  1853.
Full text available in 6 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Isaac-T-Hopper.html

Journal of an African Cruiser, by Horatio Bridge.  1845.
Full text available in 4 parts.  Available from Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/Journal-of-an-African-Cruiser.html

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Olive Gilbert.  1850.
Full text available.  Available from University of Virginia, American Studies (http://xroads.virginia.edu/)
Text url:  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TRUTH/cover.html

Documents

Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers Collection, 1847-1874
Fully searchable full text of selected newspapers, from Penn State (http://www.libraries.psu.edu/)
Database homepage:  https://www.libraries.psu.edu/about/collections/digital-newspapers/pennsylvania-civil-war-era-newspaper-collection

Slaves and the Courts, document collection, 1740-1860
Full text documents available from the Library of Congress (https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html)
Introduction url: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html

Virginia Runaways Database
Fully searchable full text documents, from the Virginia Center for Digital History (http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/)
Database homepage:  http://people.uvawise.edu/runaways/

Speeches, Addresses

Lincoln, Abraham:  First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.
Full text available at Full Books.com (http://www.fullbooks.com/)
Text url:  http://www.fullbooks.com/7879.html

Mann, Horace: Slavery: Letters and Speeches, compiled 1853.
Full text available at University of Michigan, Making of America (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/)
Text url:  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;view=toc;idno=ABT7247.0001.001