African American History & Culture:

Slavery and Abolition

• African American Resources at the University of Virginia — Electronic texts related to slavery, including letters, broadsides, pamphlets, slave bills, antislavery circulars and texts dating from 1795-1864.
• Africans in America
• The Amistad Research Center — Tulane University
• Amistad Trial Home Page — Includes maps, newspaper accounts, biographies, the trial record, the Supreme Court arguments & decision, letters & diary entries, bibliography, images and other links
• Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency — A Project of the United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University
• Black Codes of Mississippi, 1865
• Black Resistance: Slavery in the United States
• Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society Constitution
• Chalmers, H. H. The Effects of Negro Suffrage 1881
• Chronology of Emancipation During the Civil War — "This brief chronology, published in Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery
• Conflict of Abolition and Slavery — Part of the Library of Congress exhibit African-American Mosaic Exhibition
• Death or Liberty: Gabriel, Nat Turner, and John Brown — Companion Website for an exhibit at The Library of Virginia
• Documenting the African American Experience — texts published by Readex including writers such as Benjamin Banneker, Jupiter Hammon, and Phillis Wheatley.
• Documenting the American South — several full text narratives, including book covers and title pages, are included here.
• The Dred Scott Case — Washington University Libraries, St. Louis
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Dred Scott Case (1857) — From the Furman: Secession Era Editorials Project A collection of 14 contemporary newspaper editorials
• The Dred Scott Decision — National Parks Service
• The Emancipation Proclamation — National Parks Service, Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863
• Exploring Amistad
• The Frederick Douglass Institute — West Chester University
• The Frederick Douglass Papers Library of Congress, American Memory
• The Frederick Douglass Papers Project — West Virginia University
• Fugitive Slave Case Papers, 1850 - 1860 and Petitions Filed Under the Fugitive Slave Act (Fugitive Slave Petition Book), 1850-1860 — 116 multi-page documents have been digitized from these two series. The "Fugitive Slave Case Papers" pertain to petitions filed with the Court per Fugitive Slave Act of September 18, 1850. They include affidavits, copies of wills and other papers in support of the petitioners' ownership of the slave(s).
• Fugitive Slave Laws
• John Brown's Holy War — from PBS, The American Experience series
• Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves —
• Slave account entries
• Slave Purchases and Breeding: Unruly Slave
• Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries — Data and Program Library Service (DPLS), University of Wisconsin
• Slavery Petitions
• Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture — A Multi-Media Archive Directed by Stephen Railton, Dept. of English, University of Virginia
• Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study — National Parks Service
• Virginia Runaways Project — By Thomas Costa, History Department, University of Virginia's College at Wise
• Yale University - Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition