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LowCountry Research Library: Full-Text Reading Room |
| Welcome to the Lowcountry Africana Full-text Reading Room, where we connect you to hours of online reading about Lowcountry history, genealogy and culture. Grab a snack, settle in and explore! |
Featured Full-Text Reading: Lowcountry Folklore |
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In 1888, Charles Colcock Jones Jr. published the first collection of folk narratives from the Gullah-speaking people of the South Atlantic coast, tales he heard black servants exchange on his family's rice and cotton plantation. It has been out of print and largely unavailable until now.
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Florida History Online Florida History Online is a digital archive of textual and visual documents of Florida history produced by students and faculty at the University of North Florida.
This site is an excellent source of primary document images for educators as well.
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Featured Full-Text Reading: Georgia |
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The Freedmen's Bureau, established by Congress in 1865, was born of the expansion of federal power during the Civil War and the Union's desire to protect and provide for the South's emancipated slaves. Established in Georgia during late 1865 and 1866, the Bureau was positioned to play a crucial role in the implementation of Reconstruction policy, translating directives, laws, and constitutional guarantees into the new reality promised by emancipation. |
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"I Am Sapelo" by Cornelia Walker Bailey: Reflections on tradition and change on Sapelo Island, GA |
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Featured Full-Text Library:
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
If you would like to download many of Project Gutenberg's full-text offerings to your cell phone, iPod, Kindle or Blackberry, you can visit ManyBooks.net.
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Featured: Documenting the American South, UNC
Documenting the American South(DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.
Currently DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Sample Titles from DocSouth:
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