Historic Books on Slavery

In order by date of publication

Click here for the full text of American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, by Theodore Dwight Weld, with Angeline Grimke Weld and Sarah Moore Grimke, 1839. This important book was used by the anti-slavery movement as a primary source document and an argument against slavery.

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Click here for the full text of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, 1845.

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Coming soon: the full text of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852.

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Click here for the full text of Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup, 1853.

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Coming soon: the full text of A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1854.

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Click here for the full text of History of the Antislavery Measures of the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-Eighth United-States Congresses, 1861-1865, by Henry Wilson, 2nd ed., 1865.

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Coming soon: the full text of volumes 1-3 of the History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, by Henry Wilson, published by James R. Osgood & Co. Henry Wilson was an anti-slavery radical Republican senator from Massachusetts. He also served as President Grant’s Vice President.

Volume 1, 1872
Volume 2, 1874
Volume 3, 1877

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Click on the entries below for the full text of volumes 1-5 of the History of the United States, from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of home rule at the south in 1877, by James Ford Rhodes, 1910 [c.1892]. Rhodes was a Pulitzer Prize winning historian. These volumes contain a history of slavery, antislavery, and abolition.

Volume 1 (1850-1854)
Volume 2 (1854-1860)
Volume 3 (1860-1862)
Volume 4 (1862-1864)
Volume 5 (1864-1866)- [coming soon - please check back]

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Click here for the full text of History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford Rhodes, 1917. Rhodes received the Pulitzer Prize for this work.

Chronologies and Fact Sheets

Click here to see our American Abolitionists website for a timeline of events related to Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery and abolition movement in the United States.

Click here to see our American Abolitionists website for a United States Abolition and Anti-Slavery timeline.

Click here to see our American Abolitionists website for an International Abolition and Anti-Slavery timeline.

Click here to see our American Abolitionists website for a Fact Sheet on Slavery and Abolition in the United States.