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• African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction
• Southern States -- Social conditions -- Fiction

• The House Behind the Cedars (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1900), by Charles W. Chesnutt
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  • page images at HathiTrust

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• "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" (original newspaper serial version, with new introduction; from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of 1948), by Ray Sprigle, contrib. by Bill Steigerwald (illustrated HTML at post-gazette.com)
• To Live and Die in Dixie (New York: Southern Workers Defense Committee, ca. 1936), by Robert Wood, contrib. by Southern Workers Defense Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gastonia: A Class Case and a Class Verdict (1929), by International Labor Defense, contrib. by John Louis Engdahl (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Plantation Life Before Emancipation, by R. Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• In black and white : an interpretation of southern life (Fleming H. Revell company, 1914), by Lily Hardy Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assault upon freedom of association : a study of the Southern attack on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (New York, 1957), by American Jewish Congress. Commission on Law and Social Action (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Southern South (D. Appleton, 1910), by Albert Bushnell Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in North Carolina and the South : his fifty-five years of freedom and what he has done : commencement address at St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, N.C., May 26, 1920 (1920), by Walter Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Population problems in the South : a brief supplement to the study of civics and American problems. (Atlanta, Ga. : Conference on Education and Race Relations, 1939., 1939), by Conference on Education and Race Relations (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jim Crow Car: or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race (Toronto: Hill Printing Co., 1898), by J. C. Coleman
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• Social Relations in Our Southern States (New York: Henry B. Price, 1860), by Daniel R. Hundley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• 90⁰ in the shade (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Clarence Cason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mammy's white folks (Grosset & Dunlap, 1919), by Emma Speed Sampson and Irwin Myers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Effects of Emancipation upon the Mental and Physical Health of the Negro of the South (reprinted from the North Carolina Medical Journal, 1896), by J. F. Miller (HTML with commentary at UNC)
• War memories ([publisher not identified], 1919), by Margaret Ketcham Ward and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The effects of emancipation upon the mental and physical health of the Negro of the South (s.n., 1896), by J. F. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Bondage: A Novel of a Doomed Negro in Today's South (New York: Exposition Press, 1959), by Joseph A. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ordeal of Mansart (The Black Flame, book 1; New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black Woman: A Novel (New York: Exposition Press, c1954), by Arthur Diggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Colonel's Dream (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905), by Charles W. Chesnutt
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• The Conjure Woman (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
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• Dialect Tales, by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Blue River; [stories] (Macmillan, 1956), by Betsy Hopkins Lochridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conjure woman (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1927), by Charles Waddell Chesnutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mis' Beauty (George H. Doran Company, 1911), by Helen S. Woodruff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holly and pizen, and other stories (The Century Co., 1899), by Ruth McEnery Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• La choza de Tom, ó sea, Vida de los negros en el sur de los Estados Unidos (Impr. de Ayguals de Izco Hermanos, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the darkness, or, Diabolism and destiny (National Baptist Pub. Board, 1909), by John Wesley Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eneas Africanus (By the J.W. Burke Co., 1932), by Harry Stillwell Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern echoes. (Books for Libraries Press, 1972), by Louise Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moonshine; a story of the Reconstruction period. (Books for Libraries Press, 1972), by Frederic Allison Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subdued southern nobility: a southern ideal. (Books for Libraries Press, 1972) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin : or, The history of a Christian slave (Partridge and Oakey, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialect tales (Harper & Brothers, 1883), by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin : a tale of life among the lowly (S.W. Partridge, 1905), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bred in the bone (Scribner, 1904), by Thomas Nelson Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eneas Africanus (J.W. Burke Co., 1920), by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Archibald Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eneas Africanus defendant (by the J.W. Burke Company, 1921), by Harry Stillwell Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Sal came through (Published by the J.W. Burke Company, 1920), by Harry Stillwell Edwards and J.W. Burke Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The leopard's spots : a romance of the white man's burden--1865-1900 (Doubleday, Page, 1902), by Thomas Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin (Coward-McCann, 1929), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Henry Daugherty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winona : A tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest, by Pauline E. Hopkins (Gutenberg ebook)

• Uncle Tom's cabin of to-day (The Neale Publishing Company, 1906), by William Liddell Bruce and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Colonel's Dream (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1905), by Charles W. Chesnutt
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Miller of Old Church (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), by Ellen Glasgow (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Ordeal of Mansart (The Black Flame, book 1; New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957), by W. E. B. Du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Miller of Old Church (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1911), by Ellen Glasgow (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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