• Clement Claiborne Clay Papers
• Louis Manigault Papers
• Campbell Family Papers
• Confederate Broadside collection
• George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana
• Francis Warrington Dawson (I and II) Papers
• Asa T. and Elna Spaulding Papers
• Southern Women’s Economic Coalition (SWEC)
• Alliance for the Guidance of Rural Youth (AGRY)
• Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA)
• Operation Dixie Records (CIO Southern Organizing Committee--Tennessee and North Carolina)
• H. Lee Waters Film Collection
• Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South, 1940-1997.

• Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  This exhibit probes the life experiences of American slaves from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century.
• African-American Women
  On-line 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.
• Civil War Women
  On-line archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of women during the American Civil War. Includes the 1864 diary of Alice Williamson, a 16 year old girl from Gallatin, Tennessee, the papers of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a renowned Confederate spy, and the papers of Sarah E. Thompson, a spy for the Union.

• The Civil War
  A Guide to Civil War Materials in the Duke University Rubenstein Library.
• Slave Letters Bibliography
  A Guide to Slave Letters in the Duke University Rubenstein Library.
• General: Rubenstein Library manuscript and archival finding aids are fully searchable under various topics relating to Southern history and culture as is the online catalog, especially the “advanced” search, limiting the location to "Rubenstein Library."

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