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This compilation of printed texts from the libraries
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture
of the
nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It
includes the diaries,
autobiographies,
memoirs, travel
accounts, and
ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also
of relatively
inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men,
laborers, and Native Americans. An award from the Library of
Congress/Ameritech National Digital
Library Competition supported the digitization of 101 titles published
during and after the
Civil War.
The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
supplemented these titles with
another forty first-person narratives, many published before 1860.
The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its
resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to
sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity
for future generations. The goal of the Library's National Digital
Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of
historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and
lifelong learning. Digital collections from other institutions complement
and enhance the Library's own resources.
The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record
of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes,
perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill do not endorse the views
expressed in
these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
Home Page for this
Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
*
The digitization and presentation of these materials by the
Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill*, as
part of the digital library project Documenting the American
South*, was
supported by an award from
the Library of
Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition.
Links marked
* are to web
pages
mounted at the awardee institution. The digital reproductions of the
narratives are also mounted at the awardee institution.
The source materials for this collection are housed in Libraries at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.*
Please contact the
library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with any
questions or information about the original materials or requests for reproductions.
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