Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War

Features Petitions concerning race and slavery, Southern Plantation records, and Civil War and Reconstruction Era records. Part of the History Vault database.

Access includes:

  • Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army
  • Slavery and the Law
  • Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries (1700-1896)
  • Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Law and Order in 19th Century America
  • Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records, Part 1
  • Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantations Records, Part 2
  • Reconstruction and Military Government