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

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• The Plight of the Share-Cropper (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1934), by Norman Thomas, contrib. by William Ruthrauff Amberson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States (3 volumes; New Orleans: Office of De Bow's Review; et al., 1852-1853), by J. D. B. De Bow
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • all volumes: page images at MOA
• Southern Wealth and Northern Profits, As Exhibited in Statistical Facts and Official Figures: Showing the Necessity of Union to the Future Prosperity and Welfare of the Republic (New York: G. W. and J. A. Wood, 1860), by Thomas Prentice Kettell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• The Poor Whites of the South (Washington: Buell and Blanchard, printers, 1856), by George M. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poor Whites of the South (Republican campaign edition, 1860), by George M. Weston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, With Remarks on Their Economy (New York; London: Dix and Edwards; Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1856), by Frederick Law Olmsted (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The New South Investigated (Detroit: Ferguson Printing Co., 1888), by D. Augustus Straker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1861), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States (2 vols.; New York: Mason Brothers, 1862), by Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at MOA)
• The South's redemption. From poverty to prosperity. In 1860 the richest part of the country--in 1870 the poorest--in 1880 signs of improvement--in 1889 regaining the position of 1860. (Baltimore, Md., The Manufacturers' record co., 1890), by Richard Hathaway Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through Afro-America: An English Reading of the Race Problem, by William Archer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South, by Broadus Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South, by Timothy Thomas Fortune (Gutenberg ebook)
• The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution, by Holland Thompson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Human Geography of the South: A Study in Regional Resources and Human Adequacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932), by Rupert B. Vance (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 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
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)
• 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)
• Cane (New York: Liveright, c1923), by Jean Toomer, contrib. by Waldo David Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Among the Pines: or, South in Secession-Time (published under "Edmund Kirke" pseudonym; New York: J. R. Gilmore, 1862), by James R. Gilmore
  • HTML at Wright American Fiction
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• 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)
• John March, Southerner, by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Caleb Trench, by Mary Imlay Taylor, illust. by Emlen McConnell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Southern Soldier Stories, by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Bobbie", a Story of the Confederacy, by Kate Langley Bosher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Milly: At Love's Extremes; A Romance of the Southland, by Maurice Thompson, illust. by A. V. Hasenett (Gutenberg ebook)
• Cane, by Jean Toomer, contrib. by Waldo David Frank (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Land of Content, by Edith Barnard Delano, illust. by J. Henry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Toms Hytte (in Norwegian), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by O. Flæten, illust. by Paul Steffensen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kitty of the Roses, by Ralph Henry Barbour, illust. by Frederic J. Von Rapp (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hagar, by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Southern Hearts, by Florence Hull Winterburn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South, by Sarah Johnson Cocke (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mountain: A Novel, by Clement Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hullun yritys: Amerikalainen historiallinen romani (in Finnish), by Albion Winegar Tourgée (Gutenberg ebook)
• La case de l'oncle Tom; ou, vie des nègres en Amérique (in French), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Louis Enault (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sons and Fathers, by Harry Stillwell Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• The House of Fulfilment, by George Madden Martin (Gutenberg ebook)
• John March, Southerner, by George Washington Cable (Gutenberg ebook)
• Onkel Tom's Hütte: oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven. Band 1 (von 3). (in German), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Co-Citizens, by Corra Harris, illust. by Hanson Booth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, by John Trotwood Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sable Cloud: A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861), by Nehemiah Adams (Gutenberg ebook)

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