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North American slave narratives

Documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1800/1920

Subject
Slave narratives
Slaves--Biography
Slaves--United States--Biography
Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography
Freedmen--United States--Biography
African Americans--Biography
African Americans--Social conditions
African Americans--Social life and customs
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Religion
Plantation life--History
Slavery--United States--History
African Americans--History--Archival resources--Databases
Slaves' writings, American

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium
books
texts (document genres)

Type
Text

Description
Collection of electronic texts -- An introduction to the slave narrative -- Alphabetical bibliography -- Chronological bibliography -- About the project.
Summary : 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.
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.
Full texts in both HTML and SGML formats.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this project.

Metadata URL
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/

Original Collection
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

Holding Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Hargrett Library
Harvard University. Library

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Collection Name North American Slave Narratives

1. My Life and Travels

Creator:: Branham, Levi, 1852-
Date of Original:: 1929
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

2. From slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church : an autobiography / Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937

Creator:: Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937
Date of Original:: 1924
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

3. Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America / Jamison, M. F. (Monroe Franklin), 1848-1918

Creator:: Jamison, M. F. (Monroe Franklin), 1848-1918
Date of Original:: 1912
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

4. Life of Charles T. Walker, D.D., ("The Black Spurgeon.") Pastor Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, New York City

Creator:: Floyd, Silas Xavier, ?d 1869-1923
Date of Original:: 1902
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

5. The Anderson Surpriser. Written After He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age. The Author Was Born in Liberty County, Ga., on the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord, 1819, and United with the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Year 1839. This Book Contains an Account of His Florida and Northern Trip, Written by Himself, Giving Much Valuable Information of the People Among Whom He Had Been Several Months

Creator:: Anderson, Robert, b. 1819
Date of Original:: 1895
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

6. The life of Rev. Robert Anderson : born the 22d day of February, in the year of Our Lord 1819, and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839

Creator:: Anderson, Robert, b. 1819
Date of Original:: 1892
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: Hargrett Library

7. The Life of Rev. Robert Anderson. Born the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1819, and Joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1839. This Book Shall Be Called The Young Men's Guide, Or, the Brother in White

Creator:: Anderson, Robert, b. 1819
Date of Original:: 1892
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

8. The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, Original and Life Like, As They Appeared in Their Old Plantation and City Slave Life; Together with Pen-Pictures of the Peculiar Institution, with Sights and Insights into Their New Relations as Freedmen, Freemen, and Citizens

Creator:: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers (Octavia Victoria Rogers), 1853-1889?
Date of Original:: 1890
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

9. The Colored Cadet at West Point. Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A., First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy

Creator:: Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940
Date of Original:: 1878
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

10. The colored cadet at West Point : autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., first graduate of color from the U.S. Military Academy / Henry Ossian Flipper, 1856-1940

Creator:: Flipper, Henry Ossian, 1856-1940
Date of Original:: 1878
Collection:: North American Slave Narratives
Holding Institution:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library