Only by Experience: An Anthology of Slave Narratives

- PrefaceJames Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, from A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as related by HimselfBriton Hammon, A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Boyrereau Brinch, from The Blind African Slave, or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nick-named Jeffrey BraceVenture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - In Context: - Equiano's Narrative as a Philadelphia Abolitionist Pamphlet
- Reactions to Olaudah Equiano's Work

Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, A West African Slave, Related by Herself - In Context: - Mary Prince's Petition Presented to Parliament
- from Thomas Pringle, Supplement to the History of Mary Prince
- from The Narrative of Ashton Warner
David George, An Account of the Life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in AfricaSolomon Northrup, from 12 Years a Slave - In Context - Roaring River [sheet music]
- Solomon Northrup in the Popular Press
Sojourner Truth, from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave - In Context - Speech at the Akron, Ohio Women's Rights Convention
- Sojourner Truth's Cartes de Viste
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself - In Context - Fugitive Slave Advertisement for Harriet Jacobs
- from Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, with Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, 'The Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters the Women of the United States of America'
- from Julia Tyler, 'To the Duchess of Sutherland and the Ladies of England,' Southern Literary Messenger
- from Harriet Jacobs, 'Letter from a Fugitive Slave,' New York Daily Tribune
from The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada - William Johnson
- Harriet Tubman
- John W. Lindsey
- from William Grose
William Wells Brown, from The Narrative of the Life and Escape of William Wells BrownFrederick Douglass - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself
- from My Bondage and My Freedom
- from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
- In Context - Margaret Fuller, Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, from The New York Tribune
- A.C.C. Thompson, 'To the Public. Falsehood Refuted,' from The Delaware Republican, reprinted in The Liberator
- Frederick Douglass, 'Reply to Mr. A.C.C. Thompson,' The Liberator
- To My Old Master
- Photographs of Frederick Douglass
William and Ellen Craft, from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom