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Documents and articles on the abolition of slavery in the U.S., including text of 19th-century speeches and some contemporary material.
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Collection of articles with quotations from primary source documents on the history and experience of slavery by Steven Mintz, University of Houston.
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Provides memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, born in Augusta, Georgia in 1867; letters of Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, house slaves in Abingdon, Virginia; and a letter written by Vilet Lester, a slave in North Carolina from the Special Collections at Duke University.
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The authoritative collection of WPA slave narratives.
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Annotated guide to historical Web sites and online lesson plans on U.S. slavery aimed at history teachers and students.
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Guide to facts, primary and secondary sources on the slave rebellion led by Black Seminoles in Florida from 1835-1838, documenting claim it was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.
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Tells the epic maritime story of how enslaved Africans were transported from the coasts of Africa to American shores.
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Timeline on role of slavery and racism in American History from 17th-20th centuries, with footnotes to primary and secondary sources.
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Collection of scholarly books and articles on American slavery, published before 1923.
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Exploration of three 19th-century events in Virginia that focused America's attention on slavery: Gabriel's Conspiracy, Nat Turner's Rebellion, and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry.
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Contains the text of the Supreme Court case and primary source materials from the online collections of the Library of Congress.
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Primary documents on the Amistad slave ship rebellion in the U.S., presented with historical essays, teaching suggestions, images, and avenues for further exploration.
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The story of Fortune was an African American man enslaved in a Connecticut farming community, in Waterbury, includes curriculum materials and student activities.
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Article by Susan DeFord, Washington Post.
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Resource for scholars and general audiences offering historical narratives, 8,300 illustrations and more than 60 maps, with three detailed sections on U.S. slavery.
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Collection of interviews done in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration with Mississippi residents who were born in slavery.
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Collection of all narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in English up to 1920 and many related biographies, from University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South.
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Preview of and supplement to the book, Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, 1783-1865.
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Links to original source materials, hundreds of organized pictures and graphics which tell the story of American slavery from the slaves' perspective.
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Exhibit that explores the methods used by Africans and their American-born descendants to resist enslavement, as well as to demand emancipation and full participation in American society.
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Multimedia textbook by students at Coral Gables High School covering slavery in British America and the United States.
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Douglas Harper describes the growth, end, and consequences of slaveholding in the Northern colonies of what became the United States.
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Jenny B. Wahl of Carleton College describes the spread of slaveholding, its legal, social, and economic underpinnings, with graphs and tables of statistics.
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Collection of articles summarizing American slavery, includes timelines, biographies and links published by the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University.
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Antislavery literature represents the origins of multicultural literature in the United States.
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The disposition of the case, and its infamous ruling, contributed to the tensions leading to the Civil War.
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Search for records that document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants.
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Sound recordings of former slaves describing their lives, from the Library of Congress.
