Travel Accounts
Up one level A collection of historical travel accounts involving slavery.
- An Address to the Inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina
- A brief 1805 tract by an English Quaker, Ann Alexander, following a visit to US southern states. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia
- An 1859 tract from the American Anti-Slavery Society reprinting a report of Mortimer Neal Thompson, a New York journalist, of a Georgia slave auction. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- An Inside View of Slavery: Or a Tour Among the Planters
- Tour narrative of Southern slavery, by Charles Grandison Parsons (Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1855), with introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Digitized by Making of America, University of Michigan.
- A Ride Through Kanzas
- An 1856 travel narrative by abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson, detailing his tour among antislavery immigrants to Kansas. Digitized by the Antislavery Literature Project.
- Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants
- A 1771 travel account of African slavery by Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet (1713-1784). Digitized by the Gutenberg Project.
- The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author
- William Still managed the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia from the mid-1840s until the Civil War. This is the major account of fugitive travels out of slavery. Electronic edition includes all of the original illustrations. Digitized by the Gutenberg Project.
