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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
Featured Full-Text Folklore: Gullah Folk Tales from the Georgia Coast by Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.
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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.
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
Featured Full-Text Reading: Florida
Slavery and White Servitude in East Florida, 1726-1776 by Wilbur H. Siebert
Florida History
Florida History
 
 
 
 
 
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
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Georgia Slaveholders
Georgia Culture
Men of Mark in Georgia by William J. Northen: Biographies of slaveholders in Georgia
"I Am Sapelo" by Cornelia Walker Bailey: Reflections on tradition and change on Sapelo Island, GA
Georgia Cities and Towns
Georgia History
 
 
The History of the Negro Church by Carter G. Woodson
 
South Carolina History
South Carolina History
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
 
Our Native Land: Or, Glances at American Scenery and Places, with Sketches of Life and Adventure by George Titus Ferris: Description of rice cultivation on the Ashley River, sketches of Lowcountry scenery
 
 
 
DuPont and the Port Royal Expedition: from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel
South Carolina Slaveholders
Men of Mark in South Carolina by J.C. Hemphill: Biographies of slaveholders in South Carolina
Ravenel records: A history and genealogy of the Huguenot family of Ravenel, of South Carolina; with some incidental account of the parish of St. Johns Berkeley, which was their principal location by Henry Edmund Ravenel
South Carolina Plantations
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
19th Century Abolitionist Literature
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 

 
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.
 
There are more than 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.  
 
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 Gutenberg's full-text offerings to your cell phone, iPod, Kindle or Blackberry, you can visit ManyBooks.net.
 
Sample Title from Project Gutenberg:
 
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:
 
 
 
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.
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