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  • Bunkers, Suzanne L. with Anne Hodgson, ed. A Pioneer Farm Girl: The Diary of Sarah Hillespie 1877-1878. Minnesota: Blue Earth Books, 2000.
  • Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress: Women’s World in the Old South. NY: Pantheon Books, 1982.
  • Cott, Nancy ed. [et al.]. Roots of Bitterness: Documents of the Social History of American Women. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996.
  • Fox-Genoves, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
  • Graves, Kerry A., ed. A Nineteenth-Century Schoolgirl: The Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards, 1852-1855. Minnesota: Blue Earth Books, 2000.
  • Hakim, Joy. A New Nation. NY: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Hester, Sallie. A Covered Wagon Girl. MN: Blue Earth Books, 2000.
  • I Was a Slave: The Lives of Slave Children. Washington DC: Amercan Legacy Books, 1998.
  • I Was a Slave: The Lives of Slave Women. Washington DC: American Legacy Books, 1999.
  • Kimball, Violet T. Stories of Young Pioneers. Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2000.
  • Landau, Elaine. Slave Narratives: The Journey to Freedom. NY: Franklin Watts, 2001.
  • Monk, Linda R. Ordinary Americans: U.S. History Through the Eyes of Everyday People. Virginia: Close Up Publishing, 1994.
  • O’Brien, Michael ed.. An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67. Charlottesville: Southern Texts Society, 1993.
  • Pearson, Jim and John Robertson. Slavery in the 19th Century: A Unit of Study for Grades 5-8. CA: National Center for History in the Schools, 1991.
  • Rae, Noel ed. Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900. New York: A Stonesong Press Book, 1996.
  • Roop, Connie and Peter, ed. The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by the Indians. New York: Benchmark Books, 2001.
  • Schlissel, Lillian. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. NY: Schocken Books, 1992.
  • Seneca Falls; Achieving Women’s Rights. NH: Cobblestone Publishing Company, 1998.
  • Sigerman, Harriet. An Unfinshed Battle: American Women 1848-1865. NY: Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • Steele, Christy and Kerry Graves, ed. A Free Black Girl before the Civil War: The Diary of Charlotte Forten, 1854. Minnesota: Blue Earth Books, 2000.
  • Sterling, Dorothy ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. NY: W.W.Norton & Company, 1984.
  • Young, Mary. All My Trials, Lord: Selections from Women’s Slave Narratives. NY: Franklin Watts, 1995.

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