The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries' Documenting the American South project (first discussed in the
April 18, 1997 Scout Report--) brings us this collection of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century slave narratives. The collection, which was just completed last month, comprises 230 English-language narratives and many biographies of fugitive and former slaves. The texts were originally published as broadsides, pamphlets, and books, and users can now access the narratives in HTML or SGML format via an alphabetical list. William L. Andrews, the editor of the series, has provided a very helpful "Introduction to the Slave Narrative" as well as an alphabetical and a chronological bibliography. As with the other four components of Documenting the American South, this is a well organized and rich resource.
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