First-person narratives of the American South
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography; Social life and customs; Social conditions; Women; Diaries; Plantation life; Description and travel; Soldiers; African Americans; Slaves; Refugees; Slavery; History; Confederate Personal narratives
Other titles: Documenting the American South :; First-person narratives of the American South, beginnings to 1920; Documenting the American South.
Description: Dcuments the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Focuses on the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. Narratives describe Southern life between 1860 and 1920, a period of enormous change.
Notes: Title from project home page (viewed on 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 collection, searching, subject, author, and title indexes.

Text in both HTML and SGML formats.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.

First-person narratives of the American South was a winner in the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, 1996/7.
Table of contents: title: Collection of electronic texts; title: About the project.