Brooks and Other Slaves. Oxford University Press, 1991. Primary sources with commentary. The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, Original and Life-Like complete text of original 1890 edition, along with cover & title page images, at website of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Berlin, Ira, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowlands, eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 5vol. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Very large collection of primary sources regarding the end of slavery. Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, eds., Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation The New Press: 2007. Blassingame, John W., ed., Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Louisiana State University Press, 1977. Burke, Diane Mutti, On Slavery's Border: Missouri's Small Slaveholding Households, 1815–1865, De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. (1994 ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) (Project Gutenberg ), (Audio book at FreeAudio.org) Frederick Douglass, "The Heroic Slave." Autographs for Freedom, Julia Griffiths, ed., Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. pp. 174–239. Available at the Documenting the American South website. Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) (Project Gutenberg ) Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881, revised 1892) Frederick Douglass, Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, A Slave (Project Gutenberg) Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed. (Omnibus of all three) Litwack, Leon, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979) Winner of the 1981 National Book Award for history and the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for History. Litwack, Leon, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790–1860 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961) Document: "List Negroes at Spring Garden with their ages taken January 1829" (title taken from document) Missouri History Museum Archives Slavery Collection Rawick, George P., ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. 19 vols. Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972. Collection of WPA interviews made in the 1930s with ex-slaves Further reading Scholarly books Andrews, William L. (2019) Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 (Oxford University Press, 2019). Preview. Preview. Brady, Steven J. Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 (Cornell University Press, 2022) online reviews Gellman, David Nathaniel. Emancipating New York: The politics