The Unconquerable Archive

Paper on "the relationship between the sources of the Southern Historical Collection and the historiography of the antebellum South," and how the same documents were used at different times and in different ways to write the history of slavery. Presented at Southern Sources: A Symposium Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of the Southern Historical Collection, 18-19 March 2005 in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill