I thought some of you southern Caseys might be interested in this:
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/texts.html
Sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of Chapel Hill,
Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern
history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first
decades of the 20th
century. This Web site has grown considerably since its inception and
currently contains over 1,000 books and manuscripts that depict slavery,
literature, education, and religion in the South through the words of the
people who experienced them. This digitized collection currently contains
six chapters: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of
Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern
Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community; and The
North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940. One of six chapters on the
site is what Joe Hewitt, North Carolina's associate provost for university
libraries, calls "our signature project," which is an expansive collection
of North American slave narratives published in English in books and
pamphlets up to 1920. At present, more than 230 narratives are available
online from persons including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and many
others. In short, this phenomenal collection is not just for educators and
researchers, but for anyone interested in Southern slavery and history. [MG]