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Southern Voices:  Texts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920The Church in the Southern Black Community, 1780-1925

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These two collections from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill each won an award in the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library competition. First-Person Narratives of the American South includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and narratives not only of prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. The Church in the Southern Black Community traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Both collections are also presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through Documenting the American South.

The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning. Digital collections from other institutions complement and enhance the Library's own resources.

The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill do not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.


The digitization and presentation of these materials by the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*, as part of the digital library project Documenting the American South*, was supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. Links marked * are to web pages mounted at the awardee institution. The digital reproductions of the narratives are also mounted at the awardee institution.

The source materials for this collection are housed in libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.* Please contact the library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with any questions or information about the original materials or requests for reproductions.


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