Primary Sources: Slavery & Abolition

An Address to Free Colored Americans

Autobiography of a Female Slave (fiction) by Martha Griffith Browne

Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

Beloved sisters and loving friends : Rebecca Primus and Addie Brown, correspondence by Rebecca Primus; Addie Brown; Farah Jasmine Griffin (Editor)

Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner (Editor)

Enslaved women in America : from colonial times to Emancipation by Emily West

An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States by Sarah M. Grimké

An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism by Catharine Beecher

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. Jacobs

Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life. by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge by Elleanor Eldridge and Frances H. Green

The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman by Bethany Veney

Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York legislature in the early part of the present century by Sojourner Truth; Jeffrey Stewart (Introduction by)

Proceedings of the Anti-slavery convention of American women, held in Philadelphia (1838)

Proceedings of the third Anti-slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia (1839) by Anti-slavery Convention of American Women

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford

Six Women's Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews (Introduction by)

Slave Narratives by William L. Andrews (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Editor)

A Woman's Life-work: Labors and Experiences by Laura S. Haviland

Women and slavery in America : a documentary history by Catherine M. Lewis (Editor)