North American slave narratives
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slave narratives; Slaves; Biography; Fugitive slaves; Freed persons; African Americans; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Economic conditions; Religion; Plantation life; History; Slavery; Archival resources; Databases; Slaves' writings, American; Electronic publications; Autobiography
Other titles: North American slave narratives, beginnings to 1920; Documenting the American South :; Documenting the American South.
Description: Documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When completed, it will include all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920.
Notes: Title from project home page (viewed August 31, 2001).

Includes indexes.

Part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. A sidebar provides access to the main collections access page, about the collections, searching, subject, author, and title indexes.

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Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this project.

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Table of contents: title: Collection of electronic texts; title: An introduction to the slave narrative; title: Alphabetical bibliography; title: Chronological bibliography; title: About the project.