Africana Studies

 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