African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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Filed under: African Americans -- Southern States -- Biography- Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work (Toronto et al.: J. Nichols and Co., c. 1901), by Booker T. Washington, contrib. by J. L. M. Curry, illust. by Frank Beard
- Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
- Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography, by William Pickens (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography, by William Pickens (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand
- The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), by Charles W. Chesnutt, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand
- The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays (based on an 1899 edition, with some added essays), by Charles W. Chesnutt, ed. by Suzanne Shell (Gutenberg text)
- Under the Cottonwood: A Saga of Negro Life in Which the History, Traditions and Folklore of the Negro of the Last Century are Vividly Portrayed (New York: W. Malliet and Co., 1941), by Katheryn Campbell Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
- The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketch of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton, and Reminiscences of Slavery (Portland, ME: Daily Press Print, ca. 1870), by Lewis Charlton, ed. by Edward Everett Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature (Chicago: Ida B. Wells, 1893), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, and F. I. Barnett (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War (London: R. Bentlry and Son, 1883), by Frances Butler Leigh
- My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (reprint; Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1945) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Thrilling Narrative from the Lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863, With the Hair Breadth Escapes of Men, Women and Children, and Destruction of Colored Men's Property, Not Less Than $15,000 (Detroit: The author, 1863) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Patrol Regulations for the County of Rowan: Printed by Order of the County Court, at August Term, Anno Domini 1825 (Salisbury, NC: P. White, 1825), by Rowan County (N.C.)
- 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Report (final report, 2006), by North Carolina 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission, contrib. by LeRae Umfleet (PDF files at ncacr.gov)
- A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 (Pinopolis, SC: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921), by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, contrib. by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan
- Negro Plot: An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection Among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina (Boston: Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822), by James Hamilton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993), by Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday, contrib. by Dan Rather (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- The Southern Quarterly Review (full serial archives)
- Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Voice from the South, By a Black Woman of the South (Xenia, Ohio: The Aldine Printing House, 1892), by Anna J. Cooper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Extract from the Annual Address of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, D.D., to the Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Holden at Morganton, July 10th, 1861, by Thomas Atkinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Extracts from the Journal of the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Louisiana: Containing an Extract From the Address of the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese; Also, the Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, With the Resolutions Thereupon Adopted (New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office, 1861), by Episcopal Church Diocese of Louisiana, contrib. by Leonidas Polk
- Proceedings of a Meeting of Bishops, Clergymen, and Laymen, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States, At Montgomery, Alabama, On the 3d, 4th, 5th & 6th of July, 1861 (Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish, 1861), by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America
- The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Life and Narrative of William J. Anderson, Twenty-Four Years a Slave (Chicago: Daily Tribune Book and Job Printing Office, 1857), by William J. Anderson (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)
- Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859), by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England (London: W. M. Watts, 1855), by John Brown, ed. by Louis Alexis Chamerovzow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837), by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1853), by Charles Ball
- What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography, by Thomas William Burton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
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