Slavery in the South : first-hand accounts of the antebellum American Southland from northern & southern whites, Negroes, & foreign observers /
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New York :
Farrar, Straus,
[1964]
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| Series: | Materials of American history series
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Table of Contents:
- Slavery and the Southern plantation
- Select bibliography
- I. The Negro's view
- Nat Turner: Confessions
- Josiah Henson: My first great trial ; My boyhood and youth ; Maimed for life
- Solomon Northup: A Louisiana cotton plantation ; A Louisiana sugar plantation
- Frederick Douglass: A general survey of the slave plantation ; A slaveholder's character ; A child's reasoning ; Luxuries at the great house
- Charlotte Forten: Life on the Sea Islands
- Testimony of the Canadian fugitives: Edward Hicks ; Henry Blue ; Thomas Hedgebeth ; Harry Thomas ; William A. Hall
- II. The view of the Northerners and the British
- Isaac Weld
- Basil Hall: A slave auction ; Slave patrols and tobacco ; A rice plantation
- Frances Kemble: A residence in Georgia
- Frederick Law Olmstead: A tobacco plantation in Virginia ; A free-labor farm in Virginia ; Recreation and luxury among the slaves ; Ingenuity of the Negro ; Qualities as a laborer ; Improvement of the Negro in slavery ; Educational privileges ; A distinguished divine ; How they are fed ; Lodgings ; Clothing ; Fraternity ; Religious condition
- Charles Mackay
- III. The view of the Southern White
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Roderick Dew
- James Henry Hammond
- George Fitzhugh: The counter current, or slavery principle
- Hinton Rowan Helper.