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

Rights