University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Documenting the American South (Project)Overview
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Church in the Southern Black community
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in English and held by 64 libraries worldwide Traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life, beginning with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contraditions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival.
Library of Southern literature
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in English and held by 57 libraries worldwide Includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. This collection was originally based on Dr.Robert Bain's bibliography of the hundred most important Southern literary works, and continues to expand. Contains some of the earliest texts about America written by British discoverers that set the foundation for American letters and traces the development of Southern literature through to the beginning of the twentieth century
Life and times of Frederick Douglass his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time
by Frederick Douglass
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2 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 49 libraries worldwide
A Diary from Dixie
by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 43 libraries worldwide Presents "A Diary from Dixie," written by American Confederate diarist Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886). The work is published online by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library as part of the Documenting the American South project. Includes illustrations and biographical information on Chesnut.
Up from slavery an autobiography
by Booker T Washington
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 43 libraries worldwide
Narrative of William W. Brown, an American slave
by William Wells Brown
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2 editions published between 1996 and 2000 in English and held by 41 libraries worldwide
Fifty years in chains, or, The life of an American slave
by Charles Ball
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2 editions published between 1997 and 1999 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
My larger education being chapters from my experience
by Booker T Washington
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1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865
by Eliza Frances Andrews
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper, from American slavery
by Moses Roper
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2 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 39 libraries worldwide
Our Brother in black his freedom and his future
by Atticus G Haygood
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 39 libraries worldwide Haywood's Our Brothers in Black is a work that concentrates on how best to prepare the freed slaves for full participation in the American community. Noting African American community life, their relationship to the land and to their religion, he advocates education, missionary work and the establishment of black colleges. The book begins by discussing blacks' educational and economic shortcomings but discredits the popular idea that they should be returned to Africa. Haywood gives a detailed study of Lincoln and the motives for the emancipation but is focused on solving the present problem rather than condemning its existence.
Diary of a refugee
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 39 libraries worldwide
The colonel's dream
by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 39 libraries worldwide Presents an online edition of "The Colonel's Dream," written by African-American author Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) in 1905 and published online as part of the Documenting the American South project of the Academic Affairs Library within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Includes illustrations and biographical information on Chesnutt, an African-American man of letters.
The new man twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man
by Henry Clay Bruce
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1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 39 libraries worldwide
Twenty-eight years a slave, or, The story of my life in three continents
by Thomas L Johnson
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2 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 37 libraries worldwide Contains the life experiences and an account of the author as a slave.
Life of James Mars a slave born and sold in Connecticut
by James Mars
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2 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in English and held by 36 libraries worldwide
Father Henson's story of his own life Truth stranger than fiction
by Josiah Henson
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2 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 35 libraries worldwide
The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America, commencing with the first session of the first Congress, 1862
by Confederate States of America
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5 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide
Prayer book for the camp
by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
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2 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide
Robert March Hanes papers (#4534). Diary, 30 April-2 December 1918
by Robert March Hanes
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2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide A short diary documenting Hanes's activities at the front during World War I. He served as Captain of Battery A, 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division, and recorded in the diary his journey across the Atlantic, training for combat in France, and actual fighting conditions along the front. He included descriptions of several military maneuvers, among them the Argonne Drive against the Germans, detailing the use of infantry, camouflaging of guns, endless marching at night through rain and mud, the use of spy balloons, and other details of combat at the front. more
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