Title: First-person narratives of 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.
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
Places: Southern States, Confederate States of America, United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865