Primary Source Bibliography
Ball, Charles. (1859) Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave. New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Asher & Co.
Brown, Hallie Q. Ed. (1926). Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction. Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Pub. Co.
Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide. Written from a Statement of Facts Made by Himself. With Remarks Upon the Remedy for Slavery. Boston: Brown and Stearns. 1849.
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884. The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements. New York: T. Hamilton, 1863.
Bruce, Henry Clay. (1895) The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man. York, Pa.: P. Anstadt & Sons.
Craft, William. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. London: William Tweedie, 1860.
Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time. Hartford, CT: Park, 1881.
Drew, Benjamin, ed. A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves. With an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada. Boston: J. P. Jewett, 1856.
Eliot, William Greenleaf. (1885) The Story of Archer Alexander: From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863. Boston: Cupples, Upham and Company; Old Corner Bookstore.
Griest, Ellwood. (1873) John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania. Lancaster, PA: Inquirer.
Haviland, Laura. S. A woman’s life work : including thirty year’s service on the Underground Railroad & in the war (5th ed.). S.B. Shaw, 1881.
Hawkins, William G. Lunsford Lane; or, Another Helper from North Carolina. Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1863.
Jackson-Coppin, Fanny. Reminiscences of School Life; and Hints on Teaching. Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern, 1913.
Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. Ed. Lydia Maria Child. Boston: The Author, 1861.
Larsen, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero. New York: One World, 2004.
Latta, Morgan. London. The History of My Life and Work: Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D. Raleigh: The Author, 1903.
Loguen, J. W. The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Syracuse: J. G. K. Truair & Co., 1859.
No Author. (1863). A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men’s Property, Not Less Than $15,000. Detroit: The Author.
No Author. (1838) Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave. The Emancipator, August 23, September 13, September 20, October 11, October 18.
O’Neal, William (1896) Life and History of William O’Neal, or, The Man Who Sold His Wife, St. Louis, Mo.: A.R. Fleming.
Pickard, Kate E. R. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed. Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife “Vina,” after Forty Years of Slavery. Syracuse, NY: William T. Hamilton; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856.
Robsinon, Nina Hill. (1897) Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave. South: Barber & Smith, agents.
Robinson, William H. From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: Or Fifteen Years in Slavery. Eau Claire, WI: The Author, 1913.
Roper, Moses. (1838) A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery. Philadelphia: Merrihew & Gunn.
Rudd, Daniel A., and Theophilus Bond. From Slavery to Wealth: The Life of Scott Bond, the Rewards of Honesty, Industry, Economy and Perserverance. Madison, Ark.: The Authors, 1917.
Scott, Emmett Jay, and Lyman Beecher Stowe. Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1916.
Smith, Harry. Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America. Grand Rapids, MI: West Michigan, 1891.
Smith, James Lindsay. (1881) Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. Norwich, CT: The Bulletin.
Steward, Austin. (1857) Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. Rochester, N.Y.: William Alling.
Tilmon, Levin. (1853) A Brief Miscellaneous Narrative of the More Early Part of the Life of L. Tilmon: Pastor of a Colored Methodist Congregational Church in the City of New York. Jersey City: W.W. & L.A. Pratt, Printers.
Thompson, Charles. Biography of a Slave; Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson, a Preacher of the United Brethren Church, While a Slave in the South. Dayton, OH: United Brethren, 1875.
Truth, Sojourner. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828. Ed. Olive Gilbert. Boston: The Author, 1850.
Washington, Booker T. Frederick Douglass. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.Williams, Isaac D., 1821-1898. Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to “Tege.” Ed. William Ferguson Goldie. East Saginaw, MI: Evening News, 1885.
Weld, Theodore Dwight, (1839) American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society.
Williams, Isaac D., 1821-1898. Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to “Tege.” Ed. William Ferguson Goldie. East Saginaw, MI: Evening News, 1885.