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1Title:  Incidents in the life of Solomon Bayley: formerly a slave    
 Creator:  Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 
 Publication:  Tract Association of Friends, Philadelphia,1887. 
 Call #:  B 5392a, no. 99 
 Extent:  12 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Bayley, Solomon, -- b. ca. 1775 | Slaves -- Biography
 
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2Title:  My life in the South    
 Creator:  Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 
 Publication:  Salem Observer Book and Job Print, Salem,1889. 
 Notes:  "The autobiography of an emancipated slave, born and raised on an extensive plantation in central South Carolina."--Introd. 
 Call #:  E449 S925m 1889 
 Extent:  83 p. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- South Carolina | Slaves -- Biography
 
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3Title:  My life in the South    
 Creator:  Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 
 Publication:  Salem Observer Book and Job Print, Salem,1885. 
 Call #:  E449 S925m 1885 
 Extent:  83 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- South Carolina | Slaves -- Biography
 
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4Title:  My life in the South    
 Creator:  Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 
 Publication:  Observer Book and Job Print, Salem,1890. 
 Notes:  "The autobiography of an emancipated slave, born and raised on an extensive plantation in central South Carolina"--Introd. 
 Call #:  E449 S925m 1890 
 Extent:  83 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- South Carolina | Slaves -- Biography
 
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5Title:  Sketches of my life in the South: Part I    
 Creator:  Stroyer, Jacob, 1849-1908 
 Publication:  Salem Press, Salem,1879. 
 Call #:  E449 S925s 1879 
 Extent:  51 p. 16 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- South Carolina | Slaves -- Biography
 
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6Title:  Memoir of Phillis Wheatley: a native African and a slave    
 Creator:  Thatcher, B. B. (Benjamin Bussey), 1809-1840 
 Publication:  G. W. Light, Moore and Payne [etc.], Boston, New York,1834. 
 Call #:  PS866 W5Z7 
 Extent:  36 p. front. (port.) 15 cm. 
 Subjects:  Wheatley, Phillis, -- 1753-1784 | Slaves -- Biography
 
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7Title:  Sketches of my life in the South. Part I    
 Creator:  Stroyer, Jacob, 1849- 
 Publication:  Salem Press, Salem,1880. 
 Call #:  E449 S925s 1880 
 Extent:  51 p. 16 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- South Carolina | Slaves -- Biography
 
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8Title:  Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828    
 Creator:  Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883 
 Publication:  Printed for the author, Boston,1850 
 Notes:  First edition, cf. Dumond cited below. 
 Call #:  E185.97 T87 1850 
 Extent:  144 p. : 1 port. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Truth, Sojourner, -- d. 1883 | Slavery -- New York | Slaves -- Biography
 
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9Title:  The story of Mattie J. Jackson: her parentage - experience of eighteen years in slavery - incidents during the War - her escape from slavery    
 Creator:  Jackson, Mattie Jane, ca. 1845- 
 Publication:  Sentinel Office, Lawrence [Mass.],1866. 
 Call #:  E444 J14 
 Extent:  34 p. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slaves -- Biography | Fugitive slaves -- Biography | African American women -- Biography
 
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10Title:  Many thousand gone: the ex-slaves' account of their bondage and freedom    
 Creator:  Nichols, Charles Harold. 
 Publication:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington, London,[c1963] 
 Call #:  E444 N617 
 Extent:  xvi, 229 p. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Biography | Slaves -- Biography | Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions
 
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11Title:  Twelve years a slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana    
 Uniform Title:  William P. Palmer collection    
 Creator:  Northup, Solomon, b. 1808 
 Wilson, D. (David), 1818-1887
 Coffin, Frederick M.
 Orr, Nathaniel.
 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
 Publication:  Derby and Miller, Derby, Orton and Mulligan, Henry W. Derby, Auburn, Buffalo, Cincinnati,1853. 
 Notes:  Does not contain a printing statement; list of illustrations on p. xiv does not include page numbers. Editor's preface signed, in print: David Wilson, Whitehall, N.Y., May, 1853. Dedicated "To Harriet Beecher Stowe: whose name, throughout the world, is identified with the Great Reform: this narrative, affording another key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, is respectfully dedicated." Plates are signed by Coffin and N. Orr. List of "Subscription books: Published by Derby & Miller, Auburn, N.Y. ([4] p.) inserted at front. 
 Call #:  E444 N876 Vault 
 Extent:  xvi, [17]-336 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slaves -- Biography | Plantation life | Slavery -- Louisiana
 
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12Title:  Twelve years a slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the red river, in Louisiana    
 Uniform Title:  William P. Palmer collection    
 Creator:  Northup, Solomon, b. 1808 
 Wilson, D. (David), 1818-1887
 Publication:  Miller, Orton & Mulligan, Sampson Low, Son, Auburn, [N.Y.], London,1854 [c1853] 
 Notes:  Preface signed: David Wilson. At head of title: Twenty-seventh thousand. 
 Call #:  E444 N877 
 Extent:  336 p. illus. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Plantation life | Slavery -- Louisiana | Slaves -- Biography
 
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13Title:  Slavery unmasked: being a truthful narrative of a three years' residence and journeying in eleven southern states: to which is added the invasion of Kansas, including the last chapter of her wrongs    
 Creator:  Tower, Philo. 
 Publication:  E. Darrow & brother, Rochester,1856. 
 Call #:  E449 T738 
 Extent:  xv, [17]-432 p. front. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slaves -- Biography | Southern States -- Description and travel | Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861
 
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14Title:  The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave: containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape    
 Creator:  Thompson, John, b. 1812 
 Publication:  J. Thompson, Worcester,1856. 
 Call #:  E444 T473 
 Extent:  vi, [13]-143 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- Maryland | Slaves -- Biography | Fugitive slaves -- Biography
 
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15Title:  The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African    
 Creator:  Equiano, Olaudah, b. 1745 
 Publication:  Printed for, and sold by the author & G.G.J. & J. Robinson and C. Stalker, London,1793. 
 Call #:  HT869 E62 
 Extent:  xxxiv, 360 p. port. 
 Subjects:  Equiano, Olaudah | Slaves -- Biography | Abolitionists -- Biography | African Americans -- Biography
 
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16Title:  The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African    
 Creator:  Equiano, Olaudah, b. 1745 
 Publication:  Printed and published by S. Mason, London?],1809. 
 Notes:  "A new edition" 
 Call #:  HT869 E63 
 Extent:  viii, 310 p. : port. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Equiano, Olaudah | Slaves -- Biography | Abolitionists -- Biography | African Americans -- Biography
 
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17Title:  Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave    
 Creator:  Ball, CharlesNegro Slave 
 Fisher.
 Publication:  H. Dayton, Dayton & Asher, New York, Indianapolis, Ind,1858. 
 Notes:  Prepared by ----- Fisher from the verbal narrative of Charles Ball. cf. Introd. to the New York ed. of 1837. Earlier editions published under title: Slavery in the United States. 
 Call #:  B 4252 
 Extent:  [4], [9]-430 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- Maryland | Slavery -- South Carolina | Slavery -- Georgia | Slaves -- Biography
 
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18Title:  Life history of J. W. Holley; the old faithful servant: Born and reared a slave. After freedom became a worker in the master's vineyard    
 Creator:  Holley, James W., 1848- 
 Publication:  Inskeep Print. Co, Columbus, Ohio,1924]. 
 Call #:  Pam. H411 
 Extent:  16 p. incl.front.(port.) 19 x 11 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- United States -- Personal narratives | Slaves -- Biography | African Americans -- Biography | Ohio imprints 1924
 
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