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First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
contains accounts of the American South drawn from diaries, autobiographies,
memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives. The collection
contains stories of prominent individuals as well as everyday people
including women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and
Native Americans. The collection was compiled from printed texts
from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915
Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
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These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related
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Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web
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American
Life Histories, 1936-1940
African American
Perspectives, 1818-1907
African
American Odyssey
California
as I Saw It, 1849-1900
Civil War Photographs,
1861-1865
The
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Pioneering
the Upper Midwest, ca. 1820-1910
The
South Texas Border, 1900-1920
Southern
Mosaic: 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Recommended additional sources of information.
Read More About It! - A bibliography
Related
Resources
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
Search
for first-person accounts using the keyword search, or by browsing
the Subject
Index, Author
Index, and Title
Index. When you locate the bibliographic record for an item
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For help with search words, go to the Synonym
List.
For help with search strategies, see Finding
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