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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! |
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Featured Full-Text Reading: Lowcountry Folklore |
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Read a full-chapter excerpt 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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Lowcountry Folklore |
| Afro-American Folklore Told Round Cabin Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina by Abigail M.H. Christensen |
| The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast by Ambrose E. Gonzales |
| Seven Folk Tales from the Sea Islands, South Carolina by Sadie E. Stewart |
| Geechee and Other Proverbs by Monroe N. Work |
| Negro Myths From the Georgia Coast, Told in the Vernacular by Charles Colcock Jones |
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Featured Full-Text Reading: Florida |
| Slavery and White Servitude in East Florida, 1726-1776 by Wilbur H. Siebert |
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Florida History |
Florida History |
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Slavery in East Florida, 1776-1785 by Wilbur H. Siebert
Zephania Kingsley, Noncomformist by Phillip S. May
Blacks and the Seminole Removal Debate, 1821-1835 by George Klos
The Seminole Negros of Andros Island, Bahamas by John Goggin
The Free Negro in Florida Before the Civil War by Russell Garvin
Black Seminoles, Maroons and Freedom Seekers in Florida by Toni Carrier: a three-part series on maroons in Florida |
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.
Recommended Reading on Florida History Online:
Rice Culture in British East Florida: an in-depth look at plantation industry in Colonial Florida
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Featured Full-Text Reading: Georgia |
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Read a full-chapter excerpt
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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Georgia Slaveholders |
Georgia Culture |
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Men of Mark in Georgia by William J. Northen: Biographies of slaveholders in Georgia |
Rooted in Place: Family and Belonging in a Southern Black Community by William W. Falk |
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Georgia Cities and Towns |
Georgia History |
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Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form by Allen Daniel Candler and Clement Anselm Evans
A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians by Lucian Lamar Knight |
The First Colored Baptist Church in North America: Constituted in Savannah, Georgia, January 20 A.D. 1788 by James Miriles Simms
The History of the Negro Church by Carter G. Woodson |
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Georgia: Pierce Butler and the Weeping Time Sale |
| Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 by Frances Anne Kemble |
| What Became of Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859 by M. Thomson |
| Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War by Frances Butler Leigh |
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Featured Full-Text Reading: South Carolina |
| Name Changing Since the Civil War: A Case of Three USCT Regiments from South Carolina by John Raymond Gourdin |
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South Carolina History |
South Carolina History |
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A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
The Freedmen of South Carolina: Some Account of their Appearance, Character, Condition and Peculiar Customs by Charles Nordhoff: This book reflects 19th Century attitudes toward African Americans, but gives detailed descriptions of conditions among Freedmen in the earliest days following Emancipation |
The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 by Edward McCrady
The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783 by Edward McCrady
The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina by John Porter
DuPont and the Port Royal Expedition: from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel |
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South Carolina Slaveholders |
| Men of Mark in South Carolina by J.C. Hemphill: Biographies of slaveholders in South Carolina |
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South Carolina Plantations |
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Historic Houses of South Carolina by Harriette Kershaw Leiding: A rich source of information about plantations and slaveholders |
| Chronicles of Chicora Wood By Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle |
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19th Century Abolitionist Literature |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England edited by John Brown and Louis Alexis Chamerovzow |
Featured Full-Text Library:
Project Gutenburg
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.
A grand total of more than 100,000 titles is available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affilites and Resources.
Full-Text to Go
If you would like to download many of Project Gutenburg's full-text offerings to your cell phone, iPod, Kindle or Blackberry, you can visit ManyBooks.net.
Sample Title from Project Gutenburg:
Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Theodore Canot and Brantz Mayer: a first-hand narrative of twenty years of slave trading in Africa
Featured Full-Text Library:
Palmm
Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship.
There you will find hours of full-text reading on all aspects of Florida history and culture, as well as photographs, aerial images, Sanborn maps, and historic world maps.
This immense collection will allow you to explore Florida history in-depth.
Sample Title from the PALMM Collection:
Race and Civil War in Florida by Irvin D. Solomon and Grace Erhart
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:
Negro Plot. An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina: Electronic Edition by James Hamilton
Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford.
