Items and Collections

Date of Original
1860/1920

Subject
Southern States--Biography
Southern States--Social life and customs
Southern States--Social conditions
Women--Southern States--Diaries
Women--Southern States--Biography
Plantation life--Southern States
Southern States--Description and travel
Women--Confederate States of America--Biography
Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography
African Americans--Southern States--Biography
Slaves--Southern States--Biography
Refugees--Southern States
Slavery--United States--History
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate

Location
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434

Medium
biographies
books
diaries
histories
journals (accounts)
texts (document genres)

Type
Text

Description
Contents : Collection of electronic texts -- About the project.
Documents the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Focuses on the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. Narratives describe Southern life between 1860 and 1920, a period of enormous change.
Title from project home page (viewed on August 31, 2001).
Includes indexes.
Part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database Documenting the American South. A sidebar provides access to the main collections access page, about the collection, searching, subject, author, and title indexes.
Text in both HTML and SGML formats.
First-person narratives of the American South was a winner in the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, 1996/7.

Metadata URL
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/

Language
eng

Original Collection
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Contributing Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Rights