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The Church in the Southern Black Community
Traces how Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life, beginning with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contraditions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christiantiy and the realities of slavery. | More about this collection » |
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Eighteenth-Century Educational Exhibit
Selected documents from the Georgia Historical Society describing eighteenth-century life in Savannah and in the state | More about this collection » |
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First-person Narratives of the American South
Documents the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. Focuses on the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans. | More about this collection » |
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Georgia Historic Books
Significant 19th and early 20th century books on the culture, history, biography, and literature of Georgia from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Georgia State University Library, Documenting the American South, and Valdosta State University Library | More about this collection » |
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North American Slave Narratives
Documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | More about this collection » |
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Rare Books Online
Scanned books from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library covering Georgia history, literature, education, figures, and Native American and African American life in the state | More about this collection » |
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The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
Documents Southern life during the Civil War, especially the unsuccessful attempt to create a viable nation state as evidenced in both private and public life. | More about this collection » |