Images for the First-Person Narratives Collection

Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Laura Battle

Frank Montgomery

My Southern Home by William Wells Brown

Austin Steward

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Sources of Images:

The Plantation House from Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War by Thomas Nelson Page (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897).
Laura Elizabeth Lee Battle from Forget-me-nots of the Civil War; A Romance, Containing Reminiscences and Original Letters of Two Confederate Soldiers by Laura Elizabeth Lee Battle (St. Louis, Mo.: Press A. R. Fleming Printing Co., c1909).
Frank Alexander Montgomery from Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War by Frank Alexander Montgomery (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company Press, 1901).
Spine of My Southern Home by Willam Wells Brown (Boston: A. G. Brown & Co., Publishers, 1880).
Austin Steward from Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Austin Steward (Rochester, N.Y.: William Alling, 1857).