Plantation life -- Southern States -- Fiction
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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)
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Filed under: Plantation life -- Southern States- 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)
- Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
- 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)
- 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 Pageants ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by E. Boyd Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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 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)
- The Law of the Land: Of Miss Lady, Whom it Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read its Deeper Meaning: A Novel, by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text)
- Love and Vengeance, or, Little Viola's Victory: A Story of Love and Romance in the South; Also Society and its Effects (c1903), by T. E. D. Nash
- Milly, At Love's Extremes: A Romance of the Southland (New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1901), by Maurice Thompson (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Northwood: or, Life North and South, Showing the True Character of Both (revised version; New York: H. Long and Brother, c1852), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
- Northwood: or, Life North and South, Showing the True Character of Both (second edition of the revised version; New York: H. Long and Brother, c1852), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Young Bachelor; With an Appendix Containing an Essay on "The Destiny of the Negro in America" (Lynchburg, VA: Printed for the author by J. P. Bell Co., 1900), by Camm Patteson
- Eneas Africanus (with a memoir of the author by his daughter; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1940), by Harry Stillwell Edwards, contrib. by Roxilane Edwards, illust. by Ernest N. Townsend (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Partisan Leader, by Beverley Tucker (multiple editions)
- Among the Pines: or, South in Secession-Time (published under "Edmund Kirke" pseudonym; New York: J. R. Gilmore, 1862), by James R. Gilmore
- Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
- Cane (New York: Liveright, c1923), by Jean Toomer, contrib. by Waldo David Frank
- Eneas Africanus (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1920), by Harry Stillwell Edwards (Gutenberg text)
- The Heart of Old Hickory, and Other Stories of Tennessee, by Will Allen Dromgoole (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Hope's Highway: A Novel (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1918), by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wild Southern Scenes: A Tale of Disunion! And Border War! (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., c1859), by J. B. Jones (multiple formats at Google)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
- Beulah, by Augusta J. Evans (Gutenberg text)
- A Fool's Errand ("by one of the fools"; New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1879), by Albion W. Tourgée (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hagar (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- John March, Southerner, by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (c1940), by Carson McCullers (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852), by Caroline E. Rush (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
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