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My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
(Electronic Edition), by William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brown80/brown80.html.

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported the electronic publication of this title.

Text scanned (OCR) by Ellen Decker and Melissa Graham
Images scanned by Ellen Decker, Melissa Graham and Natalia Smith
Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith
First edition, 2000
ca. 400K
Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2000.

       © This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.

Source Description:
(title page) My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
(spine) My Southern Home
Wm. Wells Brown, M. D.
viii, 1-253, 2, ill.
Boston
A. G. Brown & Co., publishers
1880

Call number E185 .B88 (Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South.
       This electronic edition has been created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR-ed text has been compared against the original document and corrected. The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
       The publisher's advertisements following p. 253 have been scanned as text.
       Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. Encountered typographical errors have been preserved....

Page iii

PREFACE.

         No attempt has been made to create heroes or heroines, or to appeal to the imagination or the heart.

         The earlier incidents were written out from the author's recollections. The later sketches here given, are the results of recent visits to the South, where the incidents were jotted down at the time of their occurrence, or as they fell from the lips of the narrators, and in their own unadorned dialect.

BOSTON, May, 1880.

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