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H.C. Bruce. The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man. York, PA: P. Anstadt and Sons, 1895.

Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America. London: C. Gilpin, 1843

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Drew, Benjamin. A North-side View of Slavery. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856.

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The Fire of Liberty in Their Hearts: The Diary of Jacob E. Yoder of the Freedmen's Bureau School, Lynchburg, Virginia. Edited by Samuel L. Horst. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1996.

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