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213 BOOKS AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVE HISTORY SLAVERY BLACK

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This auction is for a collection of 213 Rare, out of print and hard to find books, and other writing on the history of American slavery personal narratives on CD-ROM.

This is volume 1, 2 and 3, which consists of items published  before, during and after the Civil War.

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The Light and Truth of Slavery. Aaron's History.  1845. 48 total pages

Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, a Native of Central Africa. 1846.  44 total pages

A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of the Distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee Alias, Wm. Chubbee, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians.  43 total pages

The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People of Colour in the United States. 1833. 60 total pages

Memoir of Quamino Buccau, a Pious Methodist.  1851. 30 total pages

Interesting Account of Thomas Anderson, a Slave, Taken from His Own Lips. Ed. J. total pages Clark.  1854?. 12 total pages

Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-four Years a Slave; Sold Eight Times! In Jail Sixty Times!! Whipped Three Hundred Times!!! or The Dark Deeds of American Slavery Revealed. Containing Scriptural Views of the Origin of the Black and of the White Man. Also, a Simple and Easy Plan to Abolish Slavery in the United States. Together with an Account of the Services of Colored Men in the Revolutionary War--Day and Date, and Interesting Facts.  1857.  81 total pages

Anecdotes and Memoirs of William Boen, a Coloured Man, Who Lived and Died Near Mount Holly, New Jersey. To which is Added, The Testimony of Friends of Mount Holly Monthly Meeting Concerning Him.  1834. 18 total pages

The Life, and Dying Speech of Arthur, a Negro Man; Who Was Executed at Worcester, October 20, 1768. For a Rape Committed on the Body of One Deborah Metcalfe. 1768. 1 total pages

Fifty Years in Chains; or, The Life of an American Slave. 1859. 430 total pages

Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa. (A Convert to Christianity,) With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religious Notions, Form of Government, Laws, Appearance of the Country, Buildings, Agriculture, Manufactures, Shepherds and Herdsmen, Domestic Animals, Marriage Ceremonials, Funeral Services, Styles of Dress, Trade and Commerce, Modes of Warfare, System of Slavery, and; and; Mahommah's Early Life, His Education, His Capture and Slavery in Western Africa and Brazil, His Escape to the United States, from Thence to Hayti, (the City of Port Au Prince,) His Reception by the Baptist Missionary There, The Rev. W. L. Judd; His Conversion to Christianity, Baptism, and Return to This Country, His Views, Objects and Aim. Written and Revised from His Own Words, by Samuel Moore, Esq., Late Publisher of the "North of England Shipping Gazette," Author of Several Popular Works, and Editor of Sundry Reform Papers.  1854. 66 total pages

A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, by the Africans on Board; Their Voyage, and Capture Near Long Island, New York; with Biographical Sketches of Each of the Surviving Africans; also, an Account of the Trials had on Their case, Before the District and Circuit Courts of the United States, for the District of Connecticut.  1840. 32 total pages

Gilbert Hunt, the City Blacksmith. 1859. 34 total pages

A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America. 1825. 57 total pages

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, Written by Himself.  1849. 207 total pages

Biography of London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colored Persons, Lexington, KY., 1854. 12 total pages

The Life and Sufferings of Leonard Black, a Fugitive from Slavery. Written by Himself. 1847. 63 total pages

The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey Brace. Containing an Account of the Kingdom of Bow-Woo, in the Interior of Africa; with the Climate and Natural Productions, Laws, and Customs Peculiar to That Place. With an Account of His Captivity, Sufferings, Sales, Travels, Emancipation, Conversion to the Christian Religion, Knowledge of the Scriptures, and; Interspersed with Strictures on Slavery, Speculative Observations on the Qualities of Human Nature, with Quotation from Scripture.  1810. 204 total pages

Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, As Given by Themselves and Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly After Their Arrest. 1841.

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. By Charles Stearns. 1849. 92 total pages

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England. 1855. 252 total pages

Biography of an American Bondman, by His Daughter. c1855. 104 total pages

Memoir of Mrs. Chloe Spear, a Native of Africa, Who was Enslaved in Childhood, and Died in Boston, January 3, 1815 ... Aged 65 Years. By a Lady of Boston. 1832. 108 total pages

The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad. 1855. 320 total pages

Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself. 1847. 110 total pages

Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. 1849. 168 total pages

Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met. 1852. 344 total pages

Trials and Confessions of Madison Henderson, Alias Blanchard, Alfred Amos Warrick, James W. Seward, and Charles Brown, Murderers of Jesse Baker and Jacob Weaver, As Given by Themselves and Likeness of Each, Taken in Jail Shortly After Their Arrest. 1841.

Narrative of Dimmock Charlton, a British Subject, Taken from the Brig "Peacock" by the U.S. Sloop "Hornet," Enslaved while a Prisoner of War, and Retained Forty-Five Years in Bondage. 1859. 15 total pages

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. 1860. iv, 111 total pages

"Narrative of the Enslavement of Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa; Published by Himself in the Year 1787"   1825. 120-127 total pages

The Heroic Slave. From Autographs for Freedom, Ed. Julia Griffiths 1853, Fictionalized account. pages 174-239.

My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman. 1855. 468 total pages

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.  1852  222 total pages

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.  1856. 403 total pages

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. I. , [1789.] 291 total pages

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol II  [1789.] 257 total pages

The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man, Who Appeared to Be between Thirty and Forty Years of Age, but Very Ignorant. He Was Executed at Dresden, on Kennebeck River, on Thursday the Twenty-Fifth Day of September, 1794, for a Rape and Murder, Committed on the Body of Pamela Tilton, a Young Girl of about Fourteen Years of Age, Daughter of Mr. Tilton of Vassalborough, in the County of Lincoln.  1795. 12 total pages

A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman.  1828. 8 total pages

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy; Late a Slave in the United States of America.   1843. 72 total pages

The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church. With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847. Also, a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou, of the A. M. E. C. and His Ministerial Labors. To Which Is Annexed the Funeral Discourse Delivered at the Ohio Conference, in Zanesville, on the Decease of the Rev. D. F. Davis, by the Author.  1850. 130 total pages

Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge. Providence, R. I.: B.T. Albro, 1838. 128 total pages

Narrative of Events in the Life of William Green, (Formerly a Slave.) Written by Himself. 1853. 23 total pages

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. Written by Himself. 1825. 68 total pages

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time. 1855. 93 total pages

A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man,--Servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England; Who Returned to Boston, After Having Been Absent Almost Thirteen Years. Containing an Account of the Many Hardships He Underwent from the Time He Left His Master's House, in the Year 1747, to the Time of His Return to Boston.--How He Was Cast Away in the Capes of Florida;--The Horrid Cruelty and Inhuman Barbarity of the Indians in Murdering the Whole Ship's Crew;--The Manner of His Being Carry'd by Them Into Captivity. Also, an Account of His Being Confined Four Years and Seven Months in a Close Dungeon,--and the Remarkable Manner in Which He Met with His Good Old Master in London; Who Returned to New-England, a Passenger in the Same Shitotal pages 1760. 14 total pages

Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen. 1847. Fictionalized account. 239 total pages

Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South. Written by Himself.  1846. 154 total pages

The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Vol. I. 1836. FICTION. 171 total pages

The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Vol. II. 1836. FICTION. 163 total pages

The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive. 1852. Fictionalized account. 408 total pages

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself. 1849. 80 total pages

Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. 1858. 224 total pages

Narrative and Writings of Andrew Jackson, of Kentucky; Containing an Account of His Birth, and Twenty-Six Years of His Life While a Slave; His Escape; Five Years of Freedom, Together with Anecdotes Relating to Slavery; Journal of One Year's Travels; Sketches, etc. Narrated by Himself; Written by a Friend 1847. 120 total pages

The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher. Compiled and Written by Himself. 1811. 96 total pages

The Address of Abraham Johnstone, a Black Man, Who Was Hanged at Woodbury, in the County of Glocester, and State of New Jersey, on Saturday the the [sic] 8th Day of July Last; To the People of Colour. To Which Is Added His Dying Confession or Declaration. Also, a Copy of a Letter to His Wife, Written the Day Previous to His Execution.  1797. 47 total pages

The Life and Sufferings of John Joseph, a Native of Ashantee, in Western Africa: Who Was Stolen from His Parents at the Age of 3 Years, and Sold to Mr. Johnstone, a Cotton Planter, in New Orleans, South America.  1848. 8 total pages

Confession of John Joyce, Alias, Davis, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808 for the Murder of Mrs. Sarah Cross: With an Address to the Public and People of Colour, Together with the Substance of the Trial, and the Address of Chief Justice Tilghman, On His Condemnation. Confession of Peter Mathias, Alias Matthews, Who Was Executed on Monday, the 14th of March, 1808. For the Murder of Mrs. Sarah Cross; With an Address to the Public and People of Colour. Together with the Substance of the Trial, and the Address of Chief Justice Tilghman, on His Condemnation. 1808. 36 total pages

Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo. 1854. 126 total pages

Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross. 1839. 260 total pages

The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination, by Eld. John W. Lewis. Together with an Essay on the Character and Condition of the African Race by the Same. Also, an Essay on the Fugitive Law of the U. S. Congress of 1850, by Rev. Arthur Dearing. 1852. 288 total pages

The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington, (the Father of Our Country,) Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds . 1835. 12 total pages

The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. 1859. 445 total pages

Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery. 1857. 426 total pages

Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Translated from the Spanish, by R. R. Madden, M.D. With the History of the Early Life of the Negro Poet, Written by Himself; to Which Are Prefixed Two Pieces Descriptive of Cuban Slavery and the Slave-Traffic, by R. R. M.  1840. 188 total pages

A Short History of the Life of Christopher McPherson, Alias Pherson, Son of Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords., 1855. 40 total pages

Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's. With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists.  1831. 144 total pages

Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour. To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry. 1826. 192 total pages

Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain, a Negro, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 20th Day of October, 1790, for a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May Last. [The Writer of This History Has Directed That the Money Arising From the Sales Thereof, After Deducting the Expence of Printing, and; Be Given to the Unhappy Girl, Whose Life Is Rendered Wretched by the Crime of the Malefactor.].  1790. 20total pages

A Narrative of "Griswold," the African Youth, from the Mission School, at Cape Palmas, Who Died in Boston, May 16, 1844.  1845. 16 total pages

The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson. 1847. Fictionalized account. 278 total pages

Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahaacute;dee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney. To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade. 1789. 201 total pages

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853. 1853. 336 total pages

Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans.  1834. 103 total pages

A Narrative of the Life and Labors of the Rev. G. W. Offley, a Colored Man, Local Preacher and Missionary; Who Lived Twenty-Seven Years at the South and Twenty-Three at the North; Who Never Went to School a Day in His Life, and Only Commenced to Learn His Letters When Nineteen Years and Eight Months Old; the Emancipation of His Mother and Her Three Children; How He Learned to Read While Living in a Slave State, and Supported Himself from the Time He Was Nine Years Old Until He Was Twenty-One. , 1859. 24 total pages

The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa. 1854. 150 total pages

The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States.  1849. 112 total pages

Jamie Parker, the Fugitive.  1851. Fictionalized account. 192 total pages

The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son. 1859. Fictionalized account. 95 total pages

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African. 1831. 41 total pages

The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe. Comprehending a Distinct Account of His Country and Family; His Elder Brother's Voyage to France, and Reception there; the Manner in Which Himself Was Confided by His Father to the Captain Who Sold Him; His Condition While a Slave in Barbadoes; the True Cause of His Bring Redeemed; His Voyage from Thence; and Reception Here in England. Interspers'd Throughout with Several Historical Remarks on the Commerce of the European Nations, Whose Subjects Frequent the Coast of Guinea. To which is Prefixed a Letter from the Author to a Person of Distinction, in Reference to Some Natural Curiosities in Africa; as Well as Explaining the Motives which Induced Him to Compose These Memoirs.   [1750] 55 total pages

The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "a Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life." 1858. 32 total pages

The Negro Servant in "Annals of the Poor. Containing The Dairyman's Daughter, (with considerable additions), and The young Cottager." 1815. -FICTION-51 total pages

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. Vol. 1. 1782. 261 total pages

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life. Vol. 2. 1782. 224 total pages

Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution". 1855. 35 total pages

Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen from Africa and Sold into Slavery. Related by Themselves.  [1849] Fictionalized account. 38 pages total.

A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood, (Coloured Man:) Giving an Account of His Birth--The Period He Was Held in Slavery-His Release--and Removal to Canada, etc. Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad. Written by Himself.  1851. 63 total pages

A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself. 1798. iv, 5-32 total pages

Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam. (From Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam). 72 total pages

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. 1857. 360 total pages

Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life. Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair.  1855. 36 total pages

Biography of Elder Lott Cary, Late Missionary to Africa. With an Appendix on the Subject of Colonization, by J.H.B. Latrobe. 1837. 108 total pages

Memoir of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. 1834. 36 total pages

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave; Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape. Written by Himself. 1856. 143 total page

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