University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library

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Works:	2,167 works in 2,342 publications in 1 language and 53,977 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Fiction History Short stories Autobiographies Music Encyclopedias Bibliography‡vCatalogs Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc
Classifications:	F230, 973.70922

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Most widely held works about University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Library resources of the University of North Carolina; a summary of facilities for study and research by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
The Estiennes : an annotated catalogue of 300 highlights of their various presses by Fred Schreiber( Book )
The library of the first state university by Louis Round Wilson( Book )
One million books; proceedings of a convocation honoring the acquisition of the one millionth volume by the Library of the University of North Carolina, University Day, October 12, 1960 by University of North Carolina (1793-1962)( Book )
The library, philanthropy, publications, & UNC's emergence as a major American university by Edward G Holley( Book )

Public services in research libraries : final report of the Study Team, October 1, 1984 by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
Annual report of the University Library, University of North Carolina, for the fiscal year by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( )
The Bookmark for the Friends of the University of North Carolina Library( )
The Walter Davis story : one man who made a difference by Ned Cline( Book )
Periodicals and other serials held by the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
Guide to special collections, indexes, and catalogs in the University of North Carolina Library by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
The Wilson Library by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
The Estiennes : an annotated catalogue of 300 outstanding books from their 16th & 17th century publishing houses by Fred Schreiber( Book )
Reform, reconstruction and redemption : the Northern impulse to save the South : an exhibition from the Southern Historical Collection( Book )
The enlarged library building at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina. Opening of the addition, 18 April 1952 by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
The Southern Pamphlet Collection : an evaluation and chronological checklist of the South Carolina portion, 1820-1900 by Ann Daly Kinken( Book )
List of Chinese books and periodicals in the Far Eastern collection of the University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )
The development of cataloging in the libraries of Duke University and the University of North Carolina from their establishment to 1953 by Frances Venable Thackston( Book )
The impact of accreditation by the Southern Association on the process of change in two university libraries by Delmus Eugene Williams( )
Checklist of microform collections in the libraries of Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )

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Most widely held works by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Encyclopedia of North Carolina( Book )

2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An informative compendium, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is abundantly illustrated with nearly 400 photographs and maps."--Jacket

Marriage and death notices from Raleigh, N.C. newspapers, 1796-1826 by Elizabeth Henderson Cotten( Book )

2 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Bernard J. Flatow collection of Latin American cronistas in the library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : an annotated catalogue by William D Ilgen( Book )

5 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A catalogue of comedias sueltas in the library of the University of North Carolina by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( Book )

1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Documenting the American South : primary resources for the study of Southern history, literature and culture( )

in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the twentieth century. Consists of thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. Includes browse indexes for authors, titles, subjects and geographic names as well as K-12 classroom exercises and sample lesson plans based on sources in the collections

Behind the scenes : or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley( Book )

6 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslaved, raised enough money to purchase freedom for herself and her son. Keckley moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a seamstress and dressmaker for the wives of influential politicians. She eventually became a close confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Several years after President Lincoln's assassination, when Mrs. Lincoln's financial situation had worsened, Keckley helped organize an auction of the former first lady's dresses, eliciting strong criticism from members of the Washington elite. Behind the Scenes is, therefore, both a slave narrative and Keckley's attempt to defend the motives behind the auction. However, the book's publication prompted an even greater public outcry, with the added racial subtext of white society's disdain for Keckley's audacity in publishing details of the Lincolns' private lives. Keckley's dressmaking business failed, the Lincoln family cut all ties with her, and she lived out her final days in a home for the indigent. Scholars have acknowledged the book's valuable account of slave life as well as its intimate view into the Lincoln White House. Biographers of the Lincolns have quoted extensively from Keckley's text

Annual report of the University Library, University of North Carolina, for the fiscal year by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill( )

in English and held by 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones who was a slave for forty-three years by Thomas H Jones( Book )

6 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The library of the first state university by Louis Round Wilson( Book )

1 edition published in 1960 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

The experience of a slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson( Book )

6 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

In 'The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina', escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a Christian master and mistress. He offers a scathing review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could not see the contradiction between worshiping a merciful God on Sundays and holding slaves under inhumane conditions

Slave songs of the United States by William Francis Allen( )

4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who transcribed songs sung by former slaves in other parts of the country. The transcriptions are preceded by an introduction written by William Francis Allen, the chief editor of the collection, who provides his own explanation of the origin of the songs and the circumstances under which they were sung. One critic has noted that, like the editors' introductions to slave narratives, Allen's introduction seeks to lend to slave expressions the honor of white authority and approval. Gathered during and after the Civil War, the songs, most of which are religious, reflect the time of slavery, and their collectors worried that they were beginning to disappear. Allen declares the editors' purpose to be to preserve, "while it is still possible ... these relics of a state of society which has passed away."

Narrative of the life of Moses Grandy ; formerly a slave in the United States of America by Moses Grandy( )

5 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmate, his original owner's son, when they were both eight years old. Hired out until he was twenty-one, Grandy describes each of his temporary masters: some cruel and some kind. His first wife is sold shortly after they marry, and he never sees her again. After saving his money whenever possible and buying his freedom for $600, Grandy is betrayed by his childhood friend, who sells him. Grandy marries again and purchases his freedom a second time, only to be once again betrayed. With the assistance of white friends, Grandy buys his freedom a third time and moves north. He is also able to purchase the freedom of his second wife, but their children remain in slavery

The confessions of Nat Turner; leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va by Nat Turner( )

5 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Narrative of William W. Brown, an American slave by William Wells Brown( )

7 editions published between 1996 and 2015 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

By 1849, the Narrative of William W. Brown was in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture, they were sold to new masters. A subsequent escape attempt succeeds. He is taken in by a kind Quaker, Wells Brown, whose name he adopts in gratitude. Shortly thereafter, Brown crosses the Canadian border. Brown's Narrative includes stories of fighting devious slave traders and bounty hunters, various antislavery poems, articles and stories (written by him and others), newspaper clippings, reward posters, and slave sale announcements

American slavery as it is; testimony of a thousand witnesses by Theodore Dwight Weld( )

6 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Provides the testimonies of ex-slaves describing the social conditions of slaves in the South

Cabbages and kings by O Henry( )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cabbages and Kings is still a rather unusual book, even after the experimentation with narrative form that has characterized much of twentieth century literature. With Roads of Destiny it was clear that O. Henry occasionally wanted to do new things with the short story form, and not just continue to produce the slightly sentimental shorts which had brought him popularity. He experimented with the form of the short story while continuing to write about the same sorts of subjects in the same accessible style. In Cabbages and Kings it is the idea of a collection of short stories that Henry plays with, writing what is in effect a novel consisting of short stories. Some parts of the book amount to chapters put in to glue the stories together, while other stories have little relevance to the main plot. This main plot is concerned with revolutionary politics in the fictional South American state of Anchuria, particularly the involvement with them of American citizens resident in the country. The President of Anchuria, Miraflores, has fled the capital with $100,000 from the treasury; he must be captured before he reaches the coast. In the coastal town of Coralio, he and his mistress are discovered, Miraflores kills himself, but the money disappears. The only two people who could know anything about it, the American Goodwin who found him, and Miraflores' mistress, now married to Goodwin, are too important to be suspected, and Goodwin is well known for his honesty. As the new president, Losada, begins to show signs that his rule will become oppressive even by the standards of South America at the time, opposition grows; and this forms the background to Cabbages and Kings. However, the best stories as short stories are those which have little relationship with this background, such as the sequence starting with Shoes centering on the young US consul John de Graffenried Atwood. This indicates that in the end Cabbages and Kings fails as an experiment; Henry's craft is so wedded to the short story form of which he was one of the greatest masters that the extended structure does not come at all naturally. The single background is a bit of a straight jacket, and it tends to fragment whenever Henry has an idea which interests him

Walker's appeal, in four articles : together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular ... to those of the United States of America, written in Boston, state of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829 by David Walker( )

5 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published in 1829, 'Walker's Appeal' called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two subsequent versions of his document (including the reprinted 1830 edition published shortly before Walker's death) were increasingly radical. Addressed to the whole world but directed primarily to people of colour around the world, the 87-page pamphlet by a free black man born in North Carolina and living in Boston advocates immediate emancipation and slave rebellion

Balcony stories by Grace Elizabeth King( )

1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson( )

2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains primary source material

The narrative of Lunsford Lane, formerly of Raleigh, N.C., embracing an account of his early life, the redemption, by purchase of himself and family from slavery, and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin by Lunsford Lane( )

1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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