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• 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)
• The Southern plantation overseer as revealed in his letters. (Negro Universities Press, 1968), by John Spencer Bassett and James K. Polk (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inside view of slavery; or, A tour among the planters. (J.P. Jewett and company;, 1885), by C. G. Parsons and Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro slavery : a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime (Peter Smith, 1959), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A grandmother's recollection of Dixie (O.G. Dunn, printer, 1912), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro slavery a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime (D. Appleton and Company, 1936), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• What happened to me (Brentano's, 1917), by George E. Pickett and Brentano's (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• 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)
• Uncle Tom's cabin : or, The history of a Christian slave (Partridge and Oakey, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The planter's northern bride (T.B. Peterson, 1854), by Caroline Lee Hentz (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)
• Uncle Tom's cabin (Houghton, Mifflin, 1893), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond the battle's rim : a story of the Confederate refugees (The Neale Publishing Company, 1918), by Ida Withers Harrison and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorials of a Southern Planter, by Susan Dabney Smedes
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA
• The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before th26war (F. Tennyson Neely Co. New York ; Chicago ; London, 1901), by James B. Avirett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A southern planter. (J. Pott & co., 1890), by Susan Dabney Smedes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of a southern planter (Cushings & Bailey, 1887), by Susan Dabney Smedes (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at HathiTrust
• 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)

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• 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
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Old days in the South. (B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899), by William Dudley Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inside view of slavery : or, A tour among the planters (J. P. Jewett and company;, 1855), by C. G. Parsons and Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roll, Jordan, roll (R.O. Ballou, 1933), by Julia Mood Peterkin and Doris Ulmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation and frontier documents: 1649-1863, illustrative of industrial history in the colonial & ante-bellum South (The A. H. Clark company, 1909), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Southern plantation overseer as revealed in his letters (Printed for Smith college, 1925), by John Spencer Bassett and James K. Polk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Josiah Henson, formerly a slave, now an inhabitant of Canada (Boston : Arthur D. Phelps, 1849., 1849), by Josiah Henson and Samuel Atkins Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of slave life or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution'. (Pub. for the author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro slavery : a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime (Peter Smith, 1952), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro slavery; a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime (D. Appleton and company incorporated, 1940), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Aaron (so named) the son of Ben Ali : told by his friends and acquaintances (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1896), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nights with Uncle Remus (George Routledge & Sons, 1905), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Florida plantation records from the papers of George Noble Jones (Missouri historical society, 1927), by George Noble Jones, James David Glunt, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, and George Noble Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern plantation; a study in the development and the accuracy of a tradition. (Columbia University Press, 1924), by Francis Pendleton Gaines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through some eventful years (Press of the J. W. Burke company, 1926), by Susan Bradford Eppes (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the war a southern tour, May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866. (S. Low, Son, & Marston, 1866), by Whitelaw Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old plantation (F. Tennyson Neely co., 1901), by James B. Avirett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Louisiana (The Century co., 1929), by Lyle Saxon and E. H. Suydam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern plantation; a study in the development and the accuracy of a tradition (Columbia university press, 1925), by Francis Pendleton Gaines (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro slavery : a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation regime (D. Appleton, 1927), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Jamaica slave plantation ([New York], 1914), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inside view of slavery; or, A tour among the planters. (J.P. Jewett and company;, 1885), by C. G. Parsons and Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origin of the pioneer planters of South Carolina, 1670-1696 (1937), by Richard Mabin Carrigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal, 1860-1866. (Mebane, N. C., 1955), by Catherine Deveroux Edmondston and Margaret Mackay Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old plantation days; being recollections of southern life before the civil war (Duffield & company, 1909), by N. B. Mrs. De Saussure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern plantation; a study in the development and the accuracy of a tradition. (P. Smith, 1924), by Francis Pendleton Gaines (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plantation life; the narratives of Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro slavery; a survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation regime. (P. Smith, 1918), by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave : the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841, sold into slavery, and after twelve years' bondage, reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana (International Book Company, 1828), by Solomon Northup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation life before emancipation. (Whittet & Shepperson, 1892), by R. Q. Mallard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Isaac; or, Old days in the South. A remembrance of the South. (B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899), by William Dudley Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Led on! Step by step, scenes from clerical, military, educational, and plantation life in the South, 1828-1898 (G. P. Putnam, 1898), by Anthony Toomer Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• 12 years a slave. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855), by Solomon Northup (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the war, a southern tour : May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866, (Sampson Low, son & Marston, 1866), by Whitelaw Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave; the thrilling story of a free colored man, kidnapped in Washington in 1841 ... reclaimed by state authority from a cotton plantation in Louisiana (International Book Co., 1895), by Solomon Northup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana. (C.M. Saxton, 1859), by Solomon Northup and D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• When I was a little girl, the year's round on the old plantation (The Fred S. Lang Company, 1916), by Anna Hardeman Meade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of slave life: (Pub. for the author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the war: a southern tour. May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866 (Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1866), by Whitelaw Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana. (Derby and Miller, 1853), by Solomon Northup and D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confederate greenbacks (The Naylor company, 1940), by Julia Tigner Noland Noland and Blanche Connelly Saucier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation reminiscences ([Owensboro? Ky.], 1878), by Letitia M. Burwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of slave life: or, Illustrations of the 'peculiar institution.' (Pub. for the author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others : character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after (Champlin Press, 1915), by Essie Collins Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Below the James : a plantation sketch (The Neale Publishing Company, 1918), by William Cabell Bruce and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the war : a tour of the Southern States, May 1, 1865, to May 1, 1866 (Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1866), by Whitelaw Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old folks at home, "Way down upon de Swanee Ribber" (Nims and Knight, 1890), by Stephen Collins Foster, A. V. S. Anthony, and Charles Copeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation life on the Mississippi (Pelican Publishing Co., 1952), by William Edwards Clement (page images at HathiTrust)
• Come back Massa, come back! (Wm. Hall & Son, 1863), by Gómez, C. Henry, and I. W. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black brigade : plantation song & dance : sung with great success at Bryant's Minstrels (New York : Wm. A. Pond & Co., [1863], 1863), by Daniel Decatur Emmett, Thomas C. Wakelam, and Bryant's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Below the James, a plantation sketch (Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by William Cabell Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savannah River plantations (Georgia Historical Society, 1947), by Georgia Writers' Project and Mary Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live oak plantation, Congaree, S C. (Nelson Southern Printing and Publishing Company, 1956), by Margaret Simons Middleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro life in the slave states of America (Clarke, 1852), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Onkel Toms stuga : en skildring af de förtrycktes lif (Hemlandets, 1902), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve years a slave : narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New York :kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River, in Louisiana (Derby and Miller ;, 1853), by Solomon Northup and D. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social and economic aspects of slavery in the transmontane prior to 1850 (George Peabody College for Teachers, 1927), by Charles Embury Hedrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of a South Carolina plantation during the war (Privately printed for my family and friends, 1912), by Elizabeth Allen Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower de Hundred; the story of a Virginia plantation (The Century Co., 1899), by Mrs. Burton Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's cabin. (Dodd, Mead, 1952), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Through some eventful years (J.W. Burke, 1926), by Susan Bradford Eppes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• After the War: A Southern Tour. May 1, 1865 to May 1, 1866, by Whitelaw Reid (Gutenberg ebook)
• Plantation Reminiscences, by Letitia M. Burwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War, by N. B. De Saussure (Gutenberg ebook)
• Plantation Sketches, by Margaret Devereux, ed. by Arthur Winslow (Gutenberg ebook)

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