Plantation life -- Fiction
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The Maroon (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1862), by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text)- Pine Ridge Plantation, or, The Trials and Successes of a Young Cotton Planter (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1901), by William Drysdale (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- In Old Plantation Days (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1903), by Paul Laurence Dunbar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation "Children": or, Holiday-Week on a Louisiana Estate (New York and London: Beadle and Co., c1861), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Week With the American Slaves (previously published as "Maum Guinea, and Her Plantation Children"; London: Beadle and Co., 1863), by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
- Black April (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1927), by Julia Peterkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
- The Black Gauntlet: A Tale of Plantation Life in South Carolina (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1860), by Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Oheim Tom's Hütte: oder, Das Leven bei den Niedrigen (Uncle Tom's Cabin in German; Boston: J. P. Jewett und Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, und Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Hugo Rudolph Hutten
- The Story of a Slave: A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times, Hitherto Unwritten, From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress (Chicago: Wesley, Elmore and Benson, 1894) (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave; Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: H. B. Skinner, 1850s), by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Planter's Northern Bride, by Caroline Lee Hentz (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore (2 volumes; J. H. Eastburn, 1836), by Richard Hildreth
- The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1852), by Richard Hildreth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Bond and Free: A Tale of the South (Indianapolis: C. B. Ingraham, 1882), by Grace Lintner (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Plantation life- Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #17; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Annie Lash Jester
- Plantation Sketches (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1906), by Margaret Devereux (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- After the War: A Southern Tour, by Whitelaw Reid (page images at MOA)
- Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels (Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1923), by I. Jenkins Mikell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roll, Jordan, Roll (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1933), by Julia Peterkin, illust. by Doris Ulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Family of the Barrett: A Colonial Romance (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Jeannette Augustus Marks (page images at HathiTrust; one preface page missing)
- Plantation Slavery in Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933), by Ralph Betts Flanders (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Social History of the Sea Islands, With Special Reference to St. Helena Island, South Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1930), by Guion Griffis Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- The Earnest Laborer: or, Myrtle Hill Plantation (New York: Carlton and Porter, 1864) (PDF at Michigan State)
- Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, c1853), contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Home in the South: or, Two Years at Uncle Warren's (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, c1857), by A Lady
- Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
- Autobiography of Rev. Francis Frederick, of Virginia (Baltimore: J. W. Woods, 1869), by Francis Frederick (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America (Grand Rapids, MI: West Michigan Printing Co., 1891), by Harry Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson ("Uncle Tom"), From 1789 to 1881 (revised and enlarged edition; London, ON: Schuyler, Smith, and Co., 1881), by Josiah Henson, ed. by John Lobb, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, S. Morley, Wendell Phillips, and John Greenleaf Whittier (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849), by Josiah Henson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1858), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). From 1789 to 1876 (London: Christian Age Office, 1876), by Josiah Henson, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sturge, and S. Morley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War, by James B. Avirett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Old Folks at Home: "Way Down Upon de Swanee Ribber" (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1889), by Stephen Collins Foster, contrib. by A. V. S. Anthony, illust. by Charles Copeland (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave (attributed to Matthews by Susanna Ashton; serialized in The Emancipator, 1838), ed. by Joshua Leavitt, contrib. by James Matthews (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Negro of the Old South: A Bit of Period History (Chicago: J. G. Branch Pub. Co., c1925), by Susan Bradford Eppes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Through Some Eventful Years, by Susan Bradford Eppes (page images at MOA)
- American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor As Determined by the Plantation Regime, by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (Gutenberg text)
- American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Planation Regime (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
- Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Horrors of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations: The True Story of Dinah, an Escaped Virginian Slave, Now in London, on Whose Body Are Eleven Scars Left by Tortures Which Were Inflicted by Her Master, Her Own Father; Together with Extracts from the Laws of Virginia, Showing That Against These Barbarities the Law Gives Not the Smallest Protection to the Slave, But the Reverse (London: A. W. Bennett, 1863), by John Hawkins Simpson (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life: Reminiscences as told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege" (East Saginaw, MI: Evening News Printing and Binding House, 1885), by Isaac D. Williams, ed. by William Ferguson Goldie (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Negro Slavery Described by a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner, a Native of St. Vincent's; With an Appendix Containing the Testimony of Four Christian Ministers, Recently Returned from the Colonies, on the System of Slavery as It Now Exists (London: Samuel Maunder, 1831), by Ashton Warner and Susanna Moodie (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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