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African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections
URL: http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/african-american-women/

Description:
"Archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women ... includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia." From The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Publisher:
Duke University

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
African American women -- Biography
LII classic content
Slavery -- United States

LII Database Information:
Record 4810 created by Dana Evans on 09/03/1999
Last modification on 07/10/2008
Published: 09/03/1999  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/4810