Plantation life -- Virginia -- Fiction
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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)
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Filed under: Plantation life -- Virginia- 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)
- Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War, by Thomas Nelson Page (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The End of an Era, by John S. Wise (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
- A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (second edition; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1895), by Letitia M. Burwell, illust. by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (second edition, 1890), by Bethany Veney, contrib. by Willard F. Mallalieu, V. A. Cooper, and Erastus Spaulding (page images at HathiTrust)
- Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc. (Norwich, CT: The Bulletin, 1881), by James L. Smith (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: Or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (first edition; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the "Peculiar Institution" (second edition, enlarged; Boston: The author, 1855), by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863), by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph; The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life (Boston: J. H. Earle, 1893), by Peter Randolph (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- 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)
- 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
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (illustrated edition; Boston, J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Hammatt Billings
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Matthew Urlwin Sears (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1904), by George Cary Eggleston (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by Francis Hopkinson Smith
- The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields, by Ellen Glasgow
- The Inhuman Stepmother: or, The History of Miss Harriot Montague (based on Aubin's Life of Charlotta Du Pont; 2 volumes; London: J. Roson, 1770), contrib. by Penelope Aubin (PDF with commentary at Chawton House Library)
- The Life and Death of Sam, in Virginia (Richmond: Pub. for the author by A. Morris, 1856), by Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Life of Charlotta du Pont, an English Lady: Taken From Her Own Memoirs (London: A. Bettesworth, 1723), by Penelope Aubin (PDF at Chawton House Library)
- Shannondale (New York: D. Appleton, 1851), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Two Gentlemen of Virginia: A Novel of the Old Regime in the Old Dominion (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1908), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (multiple formats at Indiana)
- The Valiants of Virginia (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Hallie Erminie Rives, illust. by J. André Castaigne
- A Virginia Scout (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Voice of the People, by Ellen Glasgow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Westover of Wanalah: A Story of Love and Life in Old Virginia (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1910), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by E. Pollak Ottendorff (multiple formats at Indiana)
- The Huguenot Lovers: A Tale of the Old Dominion (Richmond, VA: The author, 1889), by C. P. E. Burgwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia (Philadelphia: Our Continent Pub. Co.; New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1883), by Marion Harland, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard and A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Last of the Foresters, or, Humors on the Border: A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage, by Ellen Glasgow (Gutenberg text)
- In Ole Virginia, or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, by Thomas Nelson Page (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
- Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)
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