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Southern States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775

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• Southern States -- Social life and customs
• To 1775

• Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

• The colonial cavalier; or, Southern life before the Revolution (Little, Brown, 1895), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial cavalier; or, Southern life before the revolution (Little, Brown & co., 1897), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial cavalier (Little, Brown & co., 1895), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial cavalier : or, Southern life before the revolution (Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1894), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colonial cavalier; or Southern life before the revolution (Lovell, Coryell, 1894), by Maud Wilder Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Colonial Cavalier; or, Southern Life before the Revolution, by Maud Wilder Goodwin, illust. by H. C. Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines", and a Genealogical Record, by Mary Jones Polk Branch (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Sweet Old Days in Dixie (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1907), by Eddie McLean (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Bits of Gossip, by Rebecca Harding Davis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Beloved South, by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life in the Confederate Army... and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life, by Arthur Peronneau Ford and Marion Johnstone Ford (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People (Boston: A. G. Brown and Co., 1880), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Old South: A Monograph, by H. M. Hamill (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Rebel's Recollections, by George Cary Eggleston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of My Life, by G. C. Rankin (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Threescore years: an autobiography, containing incidents of voyages and travels, including six years in a man-of-war. Details of the war between the United States and the Algerine government, bombardment of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and its subjugation by the French. Also, two years in California, a visit to the Crimea during the bombardment and captive of Sebastopol, journey through Asia, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. (J. French and company, 1857), by Samuel F. Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Random shots and southern breezes : containing critical remarks on the southern states and southern institutions, with semi-serious observations on men and manner (Harper and Brothers, 1842), by Louis F. Tasistro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old days in the South. (B.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899), by William Dudley Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rampaging frontier; manners and humors of pioneer days in the South and the middle West (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1939), by Thomas Dionysius Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows on the wall (M. Stolz & company, 1898), by Howard Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Southern home; : or, The South and its people. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by William Wells Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A south-side view of slavery; or Three months at the South in 1854. (A. Morris, 1855), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange ways and sweet dreams : Afro-American folklore from the Hampton Institute (G.K. Hall, 1983), by Donald J. Waters and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Arp : front the uncivil war to date. 1861-1903. (The Byrd printing company, 1903), by Bill Arp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's (G.W. Dillingham Company, 1909), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the South, written during an excursion in the summer of 1816. (Published by James Eastburn & co., at the Literary rooms, Broadway, corner of Pine-street. Abraham Paul, printer, 1817), by James Kirke Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• My beloved South (Putnam, 1913), by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social relations in our southern states. (H. B. Price, 1860), by Daniel R. Hundley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways and byways of the South (The Macmillan Company;, 1904), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Among the pines; or, South in secession-time (Carleton, 1864), by James R. Gilmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A south-side view of slavery. (Ticknor and Fields, 1860), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three months at the South. (T. R. Marvin, and B. B. Mussey & co., 1854), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of my life; or, More than half a century as I have lived it and seen it lived, written by myself at my own suggestion and that of many others who have known and loved me. (Smith & Lamar, 1912), by G. C. Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bits of gossip (Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1904), by Rebecca Harding Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and papers of A.L.P. Green, D.D. (Southern Methodist publishing house, 1877), by William M. Green and Thomas O. Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winter journeys in the South; pen and camera impressions of men, manners, women, and things all the way from the blue Gulf and New Orleans through fashionable Florida palms to the pines of Virginia (J.B. Lippincott company, 1916), by John Martin Hammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A southern planter : social life in the old south (Pott, 1900), by Susan Dabney Smedes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern silhouettes. (H. Holt and company, 1991), by Jeannette Ritchie Walworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old voices ... (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904), by Howard Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the old South ; verses and drawings (Doubleday, Page, 1900), by Howard Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways and byways of the South (The Macmillan company;, 1904), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Three months at the South. (T. R. Marvin, and Sanborn Carter and Bazin, 1855), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy years in Dixie : recollections and sayings of T. W. Caskey and others (McQuiddy Printing Co., 1914), by F. D. Srygley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy years in Dixie. Recollections and sayings of T.W. Caskey and others. (Gospel Advocate Pub. Co., 1893), by F. D. Srygley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern silhouettes. (H. Holt and company, 1887), by Jeannette H. Walworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes in the South, and other miscellaneous pieces (T. McGill, printer, 1860), by James R. Creecy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social types in southern prose fiction ... (Edwards brothers, 1921), by Marion Clifford Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Then and now; reminiscences and historical romance, 1856-1865 (Press of the J. W. Burke Company, 1926), by D. F. Morrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• My beloved South (Putnam, 1913), by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the old South : verses and drawings (Doubleday, Page, 1900), by Howard Weeden, Robert Russa Moton, and Charlotte Moton Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of a southern woman "within the lines," and a genealogical record (The Joseph G. Branch publishing co., 1912), by Mary Jones Polk Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The curious adventures, painful experience, and laughable difficulties of a man of letters while traveling as a peddler in the South during the late Harper's Ferry excitement. (John Gilbert & co., 1860), by John Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• American adventures; a second trip "Abroad at home" (The Century Co., 1917), by Julian Street and Wallace Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the old South ; verses and drawings (Doubleday, Page, 1901), by Howard Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern sidelights; a picture of social and economic life in the South a generation before the war (Crowell, 1896), by Edward Ingle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oddities in Southern life and character. (Houghton, Mifflin, 1882), by Henry Watterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The memories of fifty years : containing brief biographical notices of distinguished Americans, and anecdotes of remarkable men ... (Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870), by W. H. Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old South, a monograph (Smith & Lamar, agents, Publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1904), by H. M. Hamill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Arp : from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903. (Hudgins, 1903), by Bill Arp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the South; from the commencement of the war. (Chapman and Hall, 1863), by Catherine Cooper Hopley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the South (Harper, 1835), by James Kirke Paulding and Emily Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A grandmother's recollection of Dixie (O.G. Dunn, printer, 1912), by Mary Norcott Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of my life. (Smith & Lamar, 1912), by G. C. Rankin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A south-side view of slavery : or, Three months at the South, in 1854 (T. R. Marvin [etc.], 1855), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• A South-side view of slavery; or, Three months at the South. (Mnemosyne Pub. Co., 1969), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Bill Arp: from the uncivil war to date. 1861-1903. (The Byrd printing company, 1902), by Bill Arp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sweet old days in Dixie (Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, 1907), by Eddie McLean and Edwards & Broughton Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• My southern home: or, The South and its people (A.G. Brown, 1880), by William Wells Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A South-side view of slavery ; or, Three months at the South in 1854. (T.R. Marvin, 1855), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highways and byways of the South (Macmillan, 1905), by Clifton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memories of some courageous southerners, before and after the civil war. (The Christopher publishing house, 1940), by Edward Cavelyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The diary of Randal William McGavock, 1852-1862 : (an interpretation of a period) (George Peabody college for teachers, 1941), by Jack Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• South-side view of slavery; or, Three months at the South in 1854. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classification of mountain whites (Hampton Institute Press, 1901), by Robert F. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the South : Written during an excursion in the summer of 1816 (Published by James Eastburn & co., at the Literary rooms, Broadway, corner of Pine-street. Abraham Paul, printer, 1817), by James Kirke Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• En svenska i Amerika : erfarenhet och hugkomst ifrån sex år i de Förenta Staterna (F.L. Blomqvist, 1860), by Young lady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oddities in southern life and character (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by Henry Watterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old South : $b A monograph, by H. M. Hamill (Gutenberg ebook)
• My Southern Home: Or, the South and Its People, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home', by Julian Street, illust. by Wallace Morgan (Gutenberg ebook)

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