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About DocSouth Books

This collaborative endeavor between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings selected works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books are available in newly typeset paperback and ebook editions with short contextual introductions. Unaltered from the original publication, DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

Available Titles

Under each title, the online edition links go to the file located in the Documenting the American South digital library. The UNC Press editions links go to the UNC Press website where you can purchase the new paperback and ebook formats.

• The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
  African Methodist Episcopal Church
  Published in 1817, this is the first definitive guide to the history, beliefs, teachings, and practices of the AME Church. Learn More »
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• 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 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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• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself
  Henry Bibb and Lucius C. Matlack
  Bibb's narrative documents slavery in the Deep South, African folkways including conjuring, and Native American slaveholding practices. 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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• 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
  By William Wells Brown
  William Wells Brown recounts his years as a slave and his escape to freedom. Learn More »
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• The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina
  George Butler
  An appeal to the state to create schools for the "Croatans" of Sampson County, North Carolina.Learn More »
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• A Voice from the South
  Anna J. Cooper
  This is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era.Learn More »
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• Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky
  John G. Fee
  A first-person narrative from a prominent abolitionist who founded Berea College. Learn More »
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• The Cherokee Physician
  Richard Foreman and James W. Mahoney
  Described by the authors as an "Indian guide to health," this book has intrigued homeopathic practitioners through the years.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
  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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• Slavery Days in Old Kentucky
  Isaac Johnson
  Published in 1901, this book argues against what Johnson saw as a romanticized nostalgia for slavery.Learn More »
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• The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years
  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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• Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself
  Nat Love
  Love's memoir is one of a few firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period.Learn More »
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• A Woman's Wartime Journal
  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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• Indians of North Carolina
  O. M. McPherson
  This report from the Office of Indian Affairs was commissioned in 1915 when the Indians of Robeson County petitioned for Federal recognition.Learn More »
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• Twelve Years a Slave
  By Solomon Northup
  A slave narrative of a free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery.Learn More »
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• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
  Mary Prince
  One of the earliest accounts to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public.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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• A Sketch of the Life of Okah Tubbee
  Laah Ceil Tubbee and Okah Tubbee
  A first person account by the son of the head chief of the Choctaw Nation of Indians.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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• The Woman in Battle
  Janeta Velazquez and C. J. Worthington
  An account by a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Civil War.Learn More »
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• Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles
  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
  By Theodore Dwight Weld
  A prominent abolitionist describes the day-to-day conditions of slaves.Learn More »
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• The History of the Negro Church
  Carter G. Woodson
  Traces the construction of the black church in America from colonial times through the early years of the twentieth century.Learn More »
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