Oxford African American Studies Center A digital compendium of historical and cultural African and African American resources.
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American Slavery
Collection contains interviews conducted in seventeen states between 1936 and 1938 under the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration. Site includes The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography edited by George P. Rawick, providing links to the narratives and Rawick's analysis of the collection, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community. Each entry links to the narrative as contained in the Rawick print collection.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
This digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Topics covered include the African Coast, the Middle Passage, slave experiences, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
African American Periodicals 1825-1995
Database features a diverse collection of periodicals produced by and about African Americans, covering United States slavery through the Million Man March. The publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports, and other print media.
Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922
Created from the Library Company's Afro-Americana Collection — an accumulation that began with Benjamin Franklin and steadily increased throughout its entire history, resource provides access to printed works including books, pamphlets and broadsides, and lesser-known imprints.
Africa Bibliography
The Africa Bibliography is an authoritative guide to works in African studies published under the auspices of the International African Institute annually since 1984. This online consolidated version brings together every record collected since the bibliography's foundation, producing a rich and interactive resource for all scholars interested in the study of Africa.
West African Arabic Manuscript Database
AMMS is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois. The database has a search engine designed to identify manuscripts and authors when only fragmentary information is available
EBSCOHost Databases (Slavery)
A multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain content from popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other digital media. Features Open Cluster Searching. Select Academic Search Complete; Africa-Wide Information; America: History & Life; eBook Collection; and Historical Abstracts.
The University of Virginia's Bibliography of Slavery database contains vetted resources on global slavery and slaving.
Seven hours of recorded interviews with former American slaves conducted between 1932-1975.
Freedom Center provides digital access to primary resources related to United States slavery, abolition, and emancipation. The digital collection includes broadsheets, letters, photographs, speeches, and other historical documents.
Digital site highlights primary documents on Abolition & Slavery, Politics & Government, Colonization, Religion, Education, and other topics.
List of WPA Slave Narrative volumes with links to fulltext interviews, pdf and text file formats.
Slaves and the Courts provides digital selections from books and pamphlets, published between 1772 and 1889, on African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.
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