University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill: 30 books
American Slavery As It Is
Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling...
The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti
Comprising an Account of the Struggle for Liberty in the Island, and a Sketch of Its History to the Present Period
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803) won international renown in the Haitian fight for independence. He led thousands of former slaves into battle against French, Spanish, and English forces, routing the Europeans and seizing control of the entire island of Hispaniola. L'Ouverture became governor and...
A Voice from the South
By a Black Woman of the South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1892, A Voice from the South is the only book published by one of the most prominent African American women scholars and educators of her era. Born a slave, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper would go on to become the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Cooper became a prominent...
by Nat Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Perhaps no other moment in history crystallized the fears of slave owners in the South like the August 21-22, 1831, slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in Southampton, Virginia. The Confessions of Nat Turner details Turner's life and the events surrounding that armed revolt, which left more than...
The Cherokee Physician
Or Indian Guide to Health, as Given by Richard Foreman, a Cherokee Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The extended title of The Cherokee Physicianserves as an apt summary of its contents. The book was the result of a remarkable collaboration between James Mahoney, an Irish American and native Tennesseean, and Richard Foreman, whose parental ancestry was probably Scottish and Cherokee. Typical of its...
by African Methodist Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Published in 1817, The Doctrines and Discipline of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first definitive guide to the history, beliefs, teachings, and practices of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Beginning with a brief history, the book moves into a presentation of the "Articles...
Fifty Years in Chains
Or, the Life of an American Slave
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Fifty Years in Chains: Or, the Life of an American Slave (1859) was an abridged and unauthorized reprint of the earlier Slavery in the United States (1836). In the narratives, Ball describes his experiences as a slave, including the uncertainty of slave life and the ways in which the slaves are forced...
Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick," by Himself
A True History of Slavery Days, Life on the Great Cattle Ranges and on the Plains of the "Wild and Woolly" West, Based on Facts, and Personal Experiences of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers...
The Woman in Battle
A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Loreta Janeta Velazquez was the daughter of a Spanish official living in Cuba. As a young girl she was sent to school in New Orleans, where she ran away and married a U.S. Army officer. After the outbreak of the war, she persuaded her husband to renounce his commission and to join the Confederate...
North Carolina Children’s Global Health Handbook
A Pediatrician’s Guide to Integrating IMCI Guidelines in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The North Carolina Children's Global Health Handbook offers a resource and guide for residents and healthcare providers teaching pediatrics in the developing world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa. Incorporating World Health Organization guidelines as laid out in the Integrated Management of Childhood...
Redemption
Carolina Basketball's 2016–2017 Journey from Heartbreak to History
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This is the story of a national championship that was a year in the making.
Redemption: Carolina Basketball's 2016–2017 Journey from Heartbreak to History is a behind-the-scenes look at the Tar Heels' ride to the 2017 national title. Featuring never-before-published, exclusive photographs...
by John G. Fee
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Published in 1891, Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky describes various incidents that epitomize Fee's experience as an abolitionist in the South, beginning with his religious conversion in early childhood. The text details his beliefs, his role in founding Berea, and the obstacles he surmounted,...
Mujeres en tránsito
Viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamérica (1830-1910)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Mujeres en transito: viaje, identidad y escritura en Sudamerica (1810-1930) parte de la incidencia que los relatos de viaje (extranjeros y locales) tuvieron en la formacion discursiva de las sociedades sudamericanas. El texto revisa la limitada consideracion que ha recibido la escritura femenina dentro...
Fashioned Texts and Painted Books
Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Fashioned Texts and Painted Booksexamines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the...