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About DocSouth Books

UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library are pleased to introduce DocSouth Books. This collaborative endeavor brings selected 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 as downloadable e-books or print-on-demand publications. DocSouth Books are unaltered from the original publication, providing affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

Available Titles

The current list of titles that we offer for purchase is available at the UNC Press site.

• Slave Songs of the United States
  Edited By William Francis Allen
  A collection of Civil War era slave songs. Learn More »
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• Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave.
  By Charles Ball
  Ball describes his experiences as a slave and the ways in which the slaves are forced to suffer harsh and inhumane conditions. Learn More »
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• The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti.
  By John Relly Beard
  The biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) who won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. Learn More »
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• Harriet, the Moses of Her People.
  By Sarah Hopkins Bradford
  The biography of Harriet Tubman, a legendary figure of the Underground Railroad. Learn More »
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• Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself
  By William Wells Brown
  William Wells Brown recounts his years as a slave and his escape to freedom. Learn More »
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• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America
  By Moses Grandy
  The autobiography of a slave who had to purchase his freedom three times. Learn More »
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• Uncle Tom's Story of His Life. An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson
  By Josiah Henson
  The biography of a man who toured as the model for the Uncle Tom. Learn More »
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• The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina
  By John Andrew Jackson
  An escaped slave details the horrors of slavery. Learn More »
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• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years. Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones
  By Thomas H. Jones
  The autobiography of a slave who became a minister in Wilmington, NC, and escaped to freedom. Learn More »
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• Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
  By Elizabeth Keckley
  A seamstress provides an intimate view into the Lincoln White House. Learn More »
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• A Woman's Wartime Journal. An Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge)
  By Dolly Sumner Lunt
  Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Union army on January 1, 1864. Learn More »
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• Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853
  By Solomon Northup
  A slave narrative of a free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Learn More »
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• A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery
  By Moses Roper
  A former slave challenges the racial logic of slavery in his autobiography. Learn More »
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• The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia
  By Nat Turner
  Turner's telling of his life and the events surrounding his armed slave revolt. Learn More »
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• Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles. Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America
  By David Walker
  A free black man's call for slaves to rise up and free themselves. Learn More »
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• American Slavery As It Is. Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
  By Theodore Dwight Weld
  A prominent abolitionist describe the day-to-day conditions of slaves. Learn More »
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