Local History Research

Lixl, Andreas. Memories of Carolinian Immigrants: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present. University Press of America, Lanham, 2009.

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Vol. 40, No. 1 (Summer, 2009), pp. 110-111

REMAINDER OF TITLE : Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.

REMAINDER OF TITLE : to the Captain Who Sold Him; His Condition While a Slave in Barbadoes; the True Cause of His Bring Redeemed; His Voyage from Thence; and Reception Here in England. Interspers'd Throughout with Several Historical Remarks on the Commerce of the European Nations, Whose Subjects Frequent the Coast of Guinea. To which is Prefixed a Letter from the Author to a Person of Distinction, in Reference to Some Natural Curiosities in Africa; as Well as Explaining the Motives which Induced Him to Compose These Memoirs.

REMAINDER OF TITLE : State of Massachusetts, September 28, 1829.

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Letters written between 1713 and 1781, compiled and edited by Nina Moore Tiffany in 1901.

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Librivox recording of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Hi-fi and Lo-fi versions are included, an individual chapters can be downloaded separately.

PDF, 296 pages, choose "download" or "read online"

Harriet began writing Incidents in 1853. When attempts to have the book published failed, she had it self-published in 1861. For nearly a century, the authorship of the book was questioned, but a new edition published in 1987 by Harvard University Press established Harriet Jacobs as the author. Since then, the book has become part of university curricula and has been translated into several languages.