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In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian" master and mistress.

Originally published in order to raise money to purchase his son's freedom, Thomas Jones's autobiography first appeared in the 1850s. This version, published in 1885, includes not only Jones's account of his childhood and young adult life as a slave in North Carolina, but also a long additional section in which Jones describes his experiences as a minister in North Carolina.

Born into slavery in North Carolina around 1786, Moses Grandy was bequeathed to his young playmate, his original owner's son, when they were both eight years old. Hired out until he was twenty-one, Grandy describes each of his temporary masters--some cruel and some kind.

First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other collectors who transcribed songs sung by former slaves in other parts of the country. The transcriptions are preceded by an introduction written by William Francis Allen, the chief editor of the collection, who provides his own explanation of the origin of the songs and the circumstances under which they were sung. One critic has noted that, like the editors' introductions to slave narratives, Allen's introduction seeks to lend to slave expressions the honor of white authority and approval. Gathered during and after the Civil War, the songs, most of which are religious, reflect the time of slavery, and their collectors worried that they were beginning to disappear. Allen declares the editors' purpose to be to preserve, "while it is still possible… these relics of a state of society which has passed away." A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

First published in 1829, Walker's Appeal called on slaves to rise up and free themselves. The two subsequent versions of his document were increasingly radical. Addressed to the whole world but directed primarily to people of color around the world, the 87-page pamphlet by a free black man born in North Carolina and living in Boston advocates immediate emancipation and slave rebellion.

After living as a free man for the first thirty-three years of his life, Solomon Northup was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery, leaving behind a wife and three children in New York. Sold to a Louisiana plantation owner who was also a Baptist preacher, Northup proceeded to serve several masters, some who were brutally cruel and others whose humanity he praised. After years of bondage, he met an outspoken abolitionist from Canada who notified Northup's family of his whereabouts, and he was subsequently rescued by an official agent of the state of New York. Twelve Years a Slave is his account of this unusual series of events. Northup describes life on cotton and sugar cane plantations in meticulous detail. One slave narrative scholar calls his narrative "one of the most detailed and realistic portraits of slave life." He also leavens his account with wry humor and cultural commentary, making many parts of the narrative read more like travel writing than abolitionist literature. Twelve Years a Slave presents the remarkable story of a free man thrown into a hostile and foreign world, who survived by his courage and cunning.A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

The growing interest in state and local history has created a need for a popular treatment of historical agencies. Seventeen authors tell the story through a series of biographical sketches of the leading figures in the evolution of historical societies, museums, archives, and restorations.

The papers of Chief Justice Walter Clark of North Carolina cover some of the most explosive decades in American life. It was a period of great expansion, corruption, power aggregations of wealth, indifference to the general welfare, and a slow awakening of labour to a sense of its latent power. Originally published in 1950.

This bibliography and check list of publications issued by state-supported departments and institutions of North Carolina is a union catalog of documents found in a selected group of North Carolina libraries, including Duke University, the State Library, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Originally published in 1954.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

This useful bibliography is based on the material in the North Carolina Collection in the university library and materials from several private collections. Two notable collections that memorialize individuals of international fame are the Sir Walter Raleigh Memorial Collection and the Thomas Wolfe Collection. Originally published in 1958.

Here, in one volume, have been collected, in as far as possible, the names of all those who have taken graduate degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the titles of their dissertations and theses. First published in 1947.

The essays in this volume have been selected for their contribution to Everett W. Hall's mature philosophical position, which was grounded in careful linguistic analysis and directed toward philosophically clarifying the major areas of culture. He emerges as skillful, meticulous, and patient in his exploration of language as a means of interpreting the categorial structure of the world.

Based on the special collection of Jarrell's writing in the library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the bibliography is comprehensive, not only for all his books, but also for all other publications in which his poems, essays, stories, book reviews, and translations have appeared.

Beginning with a survey of the environment in which the conquistadors began the arduous task of conquest, this work brings the story of Argentine development down through the significant revolution of 1930 and the Great Depression. The relations of Argentina with other nations are stressed, and the social, economic, and literary aspects, as well as administrative details, of the country's history are carefully considered.Originally published in 1937.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars explore the following themes: the meaning and significance of the Revolution; the long-term, underlying causes of the war; violence and the Revolution; the military conflict; politics in the Continental Congress; the role of religion in the Revolution; and the effect of the war on the social order.

Particularly significant in this book is a full introductory section tracing the story of Tar Heel playmaking through almost two hundred years. In no other literary medium has the state received so much acclaim as for the plays that Tar Heels have written about her life and her people.

Henry Harrisse was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 1850s. A man of keen intelligence, thirst for knowledge, and thorough-going scholarship. This previously unpublished work is a revealing essay on the organisation, regulation, and management of a literary institution.

By examining the textile, clothing, coal, automobile, and steel industries, Vittoz shows that a variety of interest-group pressures were responsible for many New Deal labor reforms. The author demonstrates that labor and its political allies took much of the initiative for proposing new laws and policies and that reforms were possible because portions of the business community believed that government-enforced labor standards could serve their own competitive interests.Originally published in 1987.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Contributing to the debate about the nature of politics in Weimar Germany, this study supports scholarship emphasizing that inept attempts to solve the intractable problems of stabilization contributed substantially to Weimar''s decline, and it illuminates how conservative attempts to manipulate popular discontent left many Germans open to Nazi appeals. Hughes illustrates the problems arising in the aftermath of inflation and shows how these contributed to the overwhelming economic constraints Germany faced by the late 1920s.Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

This definitive biography of Lister Hill (1894-1984), who represented Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for forty-five years, is a study of the dilemma of a Deep South liberal. Hamilton questions whether his major contributions in education and health for all Americans were worth the political and personal sacrifices Hill was forced to make in order to maintain the support of his conservative supporters, most notably their opposition to civil rights legislation.Originally published in 1987.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? Examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, and identity, this book demonstrates that many women - rural and urban, free and enslaved - began to radically redefine motherhood.

Features the dynamic and divergent heart of southern culture. This book addresses subjects such as car culture, funerals, hip-hop, and powwows. It focuses on more specific elements of folklife, such as roadside memorials, collegiate stepping, quinceanera celebrations, New Orleans marching bands, and hunting dogs.

Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies. This book guides researchers to engage in a critical reflection about the broad adoption of intersectionality.

Chancellorsville was a remarkable victory for Robert E Lee's troops, a fact that had significant psychological importance for both sides. But the achievement, while stunning, came at an enormous cost of more than 13,000 Confederate casualties. This book explores a variety of important dimensions of the Chancellorsville campaign.

Generally regarded as the most important Civil War military operation conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, the campaign of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. This book contains eleven essays that examine common assumptions about the campaign, its major figures, and its significance.

The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, this book examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and religion, as well as the ways in which women shaped these developments.