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Slavery, Abolition, & Emancipation
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "I Will Be Heard!": Abolitionism in America 
 A well-organized, content-rich site with a wide range of authoritative information. Includes profiles of prominent abolitionists, slave narratives, background on the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, critical resources on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and much more. From Cornell University, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History Last updated Feb 27, 2005 "That Laboratory of Abolitionism, Libel, and Treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
This exhibit explores the role of Syracuse, New York, in the Underground Railroad, the system that helped African American slaves escape to freedom. "Syracuse served as an important station along this freedom trail because of its central location on the Erie Canal and its associated waterways and travel routes." Includes digitized historical documents, maps and charts, and images of local abolitionists and reformers. From the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library. http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/u/undergroundrr/ Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 10, 2008 Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
A history of the Underground Railroad, including the early antislavery movement. A map displays the routes. Provides links, by state, to a history of each of the surviving historic places along the route, with photos and location, often including hours and phone number if open to visitors. The "Learn More" section includes print and online resources as well as a list of state tourism websites for those states featured. http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/underground/ Topics: Black Resources, History, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Jul 11, 2007 African American Archaeology, History and Cultures
"This web site is designed to provide convenient access to online presentations and resources concerning the subjects of African American archaeology, history and cultures, and broader subjects of African diaspora archaeology." Includes links to bibliographies, research institutes, and heritage sites. From the African Diaspora Archeology Network (ADAN), a collaboration of scholars. http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/bookmark3.html Topics: Archaeology, Black Resources, Labor Last updated Jul 29, 2009 The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
"This selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920." Searchable by keyword (including full-text searching of pamphlets and serials published by the African Methodist Episcopal Church), and browsable by subject and source material (manuscripts, pamphlets, photographs, newspapers, and serials). From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html Topics: Black Resources, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jan 26, 2005 African American Women's History
A directory of sites about "the history of black women in America, from slavery through Reconstruction, Harlem Renaissance and civil rights." It includes biographies of notable and little-known African American women, organization and club memberships, participation in events and movements, educational and political activities, and more. Includes a list of "white women who worked for racial justice and the rights of African Americans." An About.com site. http://womenshistory.about.com/od/africanamerican/African_American_Womens_History.htm Topics: Black Resources, History, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Notable People: Women, Women Last updated Jul 10, 2008 African Nova Scotians in the Age of Slavery and Abolition
"This virtual exhibit celebrates the lives of Barbary (Barbara) Cuffy, Rose Fortune, Lydia Jackson, Richard Preston, Gabriel Hall, and the many other [of the 10,000] African Nova Scotians who arrived" between 1749 and 1816. Features illustrated essays (covering 1749-1834) and a searchable database of names of about 5000 early African Nova Scotians. In English and French. From Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/africanns/ Topics: Black Resources, History By Place Last updated Jan 24, 2008 The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
A companion to a library exhibit, with materials on African American colonization, abolition, migration, and participation in the Work Projects Administration (WPA). From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html Topics: Black Resources Last updated May 5, 2005 African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections
"Archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women ... includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia." From The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University. http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/african-american-women/ Topics: Black Resources, Correspondence, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Women, United States History Last updated Jul 10, 2008 Africans in America
A searchable history of slavery in the United States, featuring images, historical documents, biographies, and contemporary and modern commentaries. Includes a teacher's guide and a youth activity guide. From the PBS series of the same name. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History Last updated Aug 19, 2005 Africans in America: People & Events: Gabriel's Conspiracy
This essay recounts the events surrounding the slave rebellion organized by African American leader Gabriel Prosser in 1799 and 1800. Includes links to related essays. Part of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "Africans in America." site. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1576.html Topics: Black Resources, Notable People Last updated Aug 23, 2006 Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation, 1450 to 1750
This section of a PBS site on Africans in America deals directly with the Middle Passage ("so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage"). It includes a history of the era, links to other entries related to the Middle Passage, and a teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html Topics: Black Resources Last updated Feb 1, 2005 Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820
A database of information on 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains "African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid for slaves, and slaves' testimony and emancipations." Searchable by name, master, gender, racial designation, time period, plantation location, and origin. "Miscellaneous Searches" has lists of African names, slaves involved with revolts, and runaways. Demographic tables are available. http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/ Topics: Black Resources, Families, History, Hobbies, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 9, 2004 An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
A collection of over 7,000 advertisements, catalogs, newspaper clippings, leaflets, menus, pamphlets, proclamations, programs, timetables, and other ephemera. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by author, title, genre, and originating location. Items "capture the experience of the American Revolution, slavery, the western land rush, the American Civil War, woman suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution from the viewpoint of those who lived through those events." From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Technology Last updated Jul 10, 2008 America's Story: Harriet Tubman
Brief biography and series of stories about the life of Harriet Tubman, "a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the 'Moses of her people.'" Illustrated essays describe Tubman's escape from slavery, her role as conductor of the Underground Railroad, and her work during the U.S. Civil War. From the Library of Congress. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman Topics: Black Resources, Notable People: Women Last updated Mar 5, 2007 Anti-Slavery: Today's Fight For Tomorrow's Freedom
Compelling portraits and narratives further this organization's mission "to eliminate the system of slavery around the world." Sections of the site cover forms of modern slavery (such as child labor and bonded labor), campaigns, publications, and educational materials. Browsable and searchable. From a British human rights organization that works through advocacy, lobbying, research, collaboration, and education. http://www.antislavery.org Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, International Governments, Labor Last updated Dec 16, 2004 The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
"The hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery." Illustrated are the "experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World." Searchable by keyword (be sure to use the search button), browsable by categories. From the University of Virginia Library. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor Last updated Aug 15, 2004 Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War
This site highlights the contributions made by African Americans to the intelligence efforts of the Union during the Civil War, describing the work of several slaves, both male and female, who acted as intelligence agents. According to the author, "Black Dispatches was a common term used among Union military men for intelligence on Confederate forces provided by Negroes." Article originally published in the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence. https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/black-dispatches/index.html Topics: Black Resources, Government, Government, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated May 26, 2007 Black History Hotlist
Links for exploring African American history and issues. Topics include Black History Month (February), slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, Buffalo soldiers, civil rights movement, Million Man March, poetry, news, people, and much more. From AT&T's Knowledge Network Explorer education program. http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Poetry Last updated Sep 4, 2007 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
"More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves" collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression. It was originally published as the seventeen-volume "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves" (1941). Search by keyword or browse the narratives and photographs. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Dec 18, 2008 Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
"The transatlantic slave trade was the second leg of a triangular economic route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas." This online exhibit examines this slave trade and "seeks to increase understanding of this maritime epic and its legacies in the modern world." Topics addressed include departure, middle passage, arrival, abolition, and legacy (such as food, education, religion, and music). Also includes images, a quiz, and a bibliography. From The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. http://ww2.mariner.org/captivepassage/index.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Museums, Musical Genres, Transportation Last updated Oct 26, 2009 The Charters of Freedom
This site contains facsimiles, transcripts, and background information on "the founding documents of the United States": the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Includes questions and answers about the Constitution and its amendments, "brief biographies of each of the Founding Fathers who were delegates to the Constitutional Convention," and more. From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Federal (U.S.) Government, Government, International Governments, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2008 Civil War@Smithsonian: Collecting, Preserving, Remembering the National Experience
This site, produced by the National Portrait Gallery, provides information and pictures from the Smithsonian Institution's extensive collections on the United States Civil War. The collections represented include slavery and abolition, Abraham Lincoln, weapons, leaders, cavalries, navies, the surrender at Appomattox, and the life and culture of the time. A bibliography of resources and timeline of events relating to the war are also available. http://civilwar.si.edu/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Feb 2, 2005 Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg is "the restored 18th-century capital city of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World." The site provides information on notable people, places, buildings, trades, Christmas in Williamsburg, clothing, slavery, and other topics. Contains documents (including the first draft of the Declaration of Independence "before Congress began amending and editing"), glossaries, and a chronology (1750 to 1783). Searchable. http://www.history.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Christmas, History, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Aug 12, 2004 Conservation of the Dred Scott Papers
Description of the conservation of papers from the case in which "Dred Scott petitioned the St. Louis Circuit Court for his freedom in April 1846." The case, which eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court and was decided on March 6, 1857, "brought the country to the brink of civil war." Includes many images showing the conservation process. From the Archives division of the Missouri Secretary of State. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/localrecs/conservation/dredscott/intro.asp Topics: Archives, Black Resources Last updated Feb 26, 2007 The Crisis of the Union: An Electronic Archive of Documents about the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the US Civil War
A collection of "pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880. Items are drawn primarily from the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia." Browsable (by author, title, subject, date) and searchable (by keyword, date, subject, graphic elements). Archived by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image (SCETI), University of Pennsylvania Library. http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/civilwar/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 28, 2004 DC Celebrates Emancipation
Information about Emancipation Day (April 16), which has been an official public holiday in Washington, DC since 2005. On that day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act. The site features a history of DC emancipation, and a schedule of events. From the government of Washington, DC. http://www.os.dc.gov/os/cwp/view,a,1207,q,608954.asp Topics: Black Resources Last updated Mar 22, 2007 Death or Liberty - Gabriel, Nat Turner and John Brown
This online exhibit features transcripts and digital images of over sixty documents that relate to resistance to slavery in Virginia between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Each section includes a summary and the site provides primary documents for each subject. The subjects include Gabriel's Conspiracy in 1800, Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831, and John Brown's Raid in 1859. From the Library of Virginia. http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/deathliberty/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Oct 8, 2009 The Dred Scott Case
"The records displayed in this exhibit document their [Dred Scott and his wife] early struggle to gain their freedom through litigation and are the only extant records of this significant case as it was heard in the St. Louis Circuit Court." The decision contributed to the tensions leading to the Civil War. The site has digital images and transcriptions of original documents as well as a chronology. From the library at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History Last updated Jan 16, 2006 Emancipation Proclamation
Small exhibit on the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of 1863 during the Civil War. Includes an essay about Lincoln and slavery, timeline, and images of versions of the document. Part of a Library of Congress American Memory Project presentation about the papers of Abraham Lincoln. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almintr.html Topics: Black Resources, United States History Last updated May 23, 2006 The Emancipation Proclamation
This site contains images of the entire original Emancipation Proclamation, a transcript, and an explanation of its historical significance during and after the Civil War. From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals_iv/sections/text_emancipation.html Topics: Black Resources, United States History Last updated Jul 24, 2005 The End of Slavery: The Creation of the 13th Amendment
"Editorials, feature stories, news items, illustrations, cartoons, a poem, and an advertisement" from the pages of Harper's Weekly, "the leading American illustrated newspaper in the second-half of the nineteenth century," about the 13th Amendment and "the nation's transition from slavery to freedom." Features a timeline (1787-1865), commentary, and biographies. Includes a glossary and list of sources. Also includes links to sites about the 14th and 15th Amendments. From HarpWeek. http://13thamendment.harpweek.com/ Topics: Black Resources, United States History Last updated Jan 23, 2008 An Era of Progress and Promise: Education and Religion in Post-Emancipation America
Website for a 1910 book for those interested in "the history of education, the development of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Negro Business League, religion in the United States, or African-American society in post-Emancipation America. You can read the full text of the book online, or search for profiles of specific institutions ... or biographies of influential African Americans by selecting the 'Browse' options." From the State Library of North Carolina. http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/dimp/digital/era/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Sep 30, 2009 The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
This multimedia tutorial focuses on Spain and Portugal's explorations and conquests in Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Americas. The economic, political, and cultural circumstances that contributed to exploration, short histories of the two countries, maps, discussions of collateral issues (e.g., slavery, navigation, religion), and an article about Columbus are included. Produced by The Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary. http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/ Topics: Black Resources, History, History By Place, Labor Last updated Jul 5, 2004 From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
A collection of about four hundred pamphlets "by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The materials range from personal accounts and public orations to organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington." From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
A searchable site "dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction." "Source Documents" contains speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles. The site also provides bibliographies, related sites, and information about the Amistad case. http://www.yale.edu/glc/ Topics: Black Resources, Correspondence, Labor, United States History Last updated Jan 17, 2005 Highlighting Human Rights in Ontario
Historical documents and photographs exploring the "recognition of human rights throughout the history of [Ontario] prior to the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1961." Explores topics of Ontario as a haven from persecution, the right to a fair trial, freedom from slavery, freedom of religion, women's rights, the right to education, freedom of peaceful assembly, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Available in English and French. From the Archives of Ontario, Canada. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/humnrits/index.html Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, International Governments, Labor, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Social Issues, War and Peace: Resources on Iraq Last updated Jan 16, 2006 History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
The full text of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by historian James Ford Rhodes. This "chronicle of the War Between the States both provides the general reader with a clearly written description of the events of four bloody years as well as reveals the self-educated author's belief in the war's cause as the evil of slavery." http://www.bartleby.com/252/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literature & Books, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jan 16, 2006 How California Came to Be Admitted
Reprint of a 1900 San Francisco Chronicle article that discusses the significance of the status of California as an anti-slavery state when it was admitted into the United States on September 9, 1850. From the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/caladmit.html Topics: Black Resources, United States History Last updated Jan 29, 2007 iAbolish: American Anti-Slavery Group
"Slavery in the 21st century takes many forms, the most common being debt bondage, sexual servitude, chattel slavery, and the severest forms of forced labor." "Slavery Today" contains individual stories and descriptions of slavery mechanisms around the world (prostitution, child labor, debt bondage, servile marriage), and identifies products of slave labor using an interactive map. Also links to current news stories. Searchable. http://www.iabolish.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, International Governments, Labor Last updated Jul 28, 2007 Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
This website "presents digital images of 840 visual materials from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society that illustrate the role of Massachusetts in the national debate over slavery." Browse by format, such as engravings and prints, patriotic covers (envelopes featuring images and slogans), and manuscripts. Also includes a website overview, highlights from the collection of portraits of American abolitionists, and a brief bibliography. http://www.masshist.org/online/abolition.cfm Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 21, 2008 International Slavery Museum
Website for this British museum in Liverpool that opened in 2007, the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. The museum "explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery." The site provides images of highlights from the collection, a history of the transatlantic slave trade, and an interactive feature that follows four Africans on a sinking slave ship. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Oct 2, 2007 John Brown's Holy War
John Brown's Holy War explores the life and actions of the abolitionist known for his violent crusade against slavery at Harpers Ferry. Includes biographical information and timeline; excerpts from letters, speeches, and an editorial; profiles of related people and events; information on the song "John Brown's Body"; a bibliography; and a teacher's guide. This online companion to PBS program also features a film transcript and interviews with historians featured in the film. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/ Topics: Black Resources, Correspondence, Labor, Notable People, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Feb 27, 2005 The Last Slave Ships: Key West African Cemetery
This report details the evidence of an African cemetery at Higgs Beach in Key West, Florida, and describes how it was located. Includes facsimiles of historical records, maps, graphs, tables, and photos. In 1860, the U.S. Navy intercepted three American-owned slave ships taking Africans to Cuba. Now refugees, the Africans were taken to Key West before being sent to Liberia. Many died and were buried at Higgs Beach. From the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. http://www.melfisher.org/exhibitions/lastslaveships/cemetery.htm Topics: Black Resources, Death & Dying, Geography, History, Labor, Photograph Collections Last updated Jul 27, 2007 The Legacy Project
"Numerous artworks from around the world, addressing the absence and losses experienced by societies as a result of past tragedies, including war, genocide, ethnic conflict, and population displacement" document 20th-century traumas such as apartheid, Khmer Rouge activities in Cambodia, the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, slavery, and September 11. The "Literary Sampler" features an archive of writings from around the world. http://www.legacy-project.org/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, Black Resources, Health & Medical Disciplines, History, Labor, Schools of Art, Science, Science, Social Science Last updated Feb 27, 2007 Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
An online exhibit that presents an overview of the transatlantic slave trade and "enslaved African peoples in the Americas." The site features illustrated essays on the history of the slave trade, the struggle against slavery and its abolition, family life, religion, literacy and education, and culture. From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/english/site/flash.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor Last updated Oct 20, 2004 Look Back, Ponder, and Move On: Glimpses of the African-American Experience in Savannah 1750-1900
This online exhibit explores how "during those 150 fateful years African Americans had gone from being bondspeople to citizens of the American Republic." The site features images and information about antebellum Savannah, Georgia, the Civil War era, and reconstruction. Topics include Gullah culture, Muslims in coastal Georgia, and education. From the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation. http://www.kingtisdell.org/exhibit.htm Topics: Black Resources, Labor, U.S. History By Place Last updated Mar 30, 2006 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Companion to a public television program that considers the story of Nat Turner, who led a famed slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 and who been a subject of fierce debate. It "examines how the story of Turner and his revolt have been continuously re-told since 1831." The site features an overview of the rebellion, a timeline of slave rebellions in the Americas (1663-1859), and links to related sites. From Independent Television Service (ITVS). http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/natturner/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History Last updated Aug 7, 2006 New York City Draft Riots of 1863
This excerpt from the book "In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863" discusses the July 1863 riots in New York City that followed the enactment of a new conscription lottery law. "Throughout the week of riots [known as the Civil War Draft Riots], mobs harassed and sometimes killed blacks and their supporters and destroyed their property." From the University of Chicago Press. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html Topics: Activism, Black Resources, Labor, Military, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jun 20, 2005 New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War
Online exhibit about the attitudes towards slavery in New York City between the time slavery was abolished in the state in 1827 and the Civil War. Topics include New York City as a pro-Southern city, abolitionists and fighting slavery, and Civil War battles of New York and reconstruction. Features introductory essays, background about people and events, primary documents, and more. From the New York Historical Society. http://www.nydivided.org/VirtualExhibit/ Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jan 29, 2007 The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books
"The books in this collection bear nineteenth century American imprints, dating mainly from between 1850 and 1880. They have been digitized by the University of Michigan. ... Currently, approximately 1,500 books are included." Searchable, or browsable by subject, author, title, or theme, such as the Civil War, slavery and abolition, religion, education, self-help and self-improvement, travel and westward expansion, and poetry. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/mnchome.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature & Books, Media, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts, United States History Last updated Apr 6, 2005 On the Trail of Sojourner Truth in Ulster County, New York
This presentation features images and artifacts related to the abolitionist Sojourner Truth, who was born in Ulster County, New York, in 1797. Discusses locations related to and believed to be connected to Sojourner Truth, such as the Hardenburgh House in Rifton, the John Ignatius Dumont farm, Poppletown, and the Ulster County Court House. From librarian Corinne Nyquist of the Sojourner Truth Library at State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz. http://www.newpaltz.edu/sojourner_truth/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Notable People: Women, U.S. History By Place Last updated Nov 21, 2007 Race: The Power of an Illusion
Companion site to the California Newsreel documentary about "race in society, science, and history." Background documents cover topics such as genetics, evolution, slavery, 19th-century race science, immigration, and racial classification. Includes a database of resources (books, websites, organizations, and media), statistics and data, a discussion guide, and other educational materials. From the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). http://www.pbs.org/race/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor Last updated Jan 16, 2006 Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah From Slave Ship to Pirate Ship
Companion to a 2009 exhibition that "examines the rich history of Caribbean trade routes during the 18th century and the link between the slave trade and piracy." Features an exhibition walk-through, illustrated essays about the slave and pirate ship Whydah and about piracy today, photos, pirate "fun" (such as songs), and related material. From the Field Museum (Chicago); organized by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/pirates/ Topics: Black Resources, Crime, Labor, Transportation Last updated Apr 13, 2009 Return to the African Burial Ground
This 2003 interview with the physical anthropologist who was the director of the African Burial Ground Project discusses how "on October 3, 2003, the remains of more than 400 enslaved people arrived in New York and were taken in a procession up Broadway to their final resting place, the African Burial Ground, from which they had been removed 12 years ago [1991]." Includes photos from the event. From the Archaeological Institute of America. http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/blakey/ Topics: Black Resources, United States History Last updated Oct 8, 2007 Secession Era Editorials Project
A collection of primary source material, including documents, editorials, speeches, and articles from 19th century American history. Sections include Early National Politics, Slavery and Sectionalism, Nebraska Bill, Sumner's Caning, Dred Scott Decision, John Brown and Harper's Ferry, 1850s Statistical Almanac, 1860 Election, Secession and War, and Post Civil War. Some of the texts are searchable. From Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina. http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jan 23, 2007 Secret Routes to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Experience
An online exhibit on the Underground Railroad, the history of slavery in the United States, and slavery today. The "Routes" section features descriptions of the vast network of routes the slaves took to freedom. "Stories" focuses on the institution of slavery and the treatment of the slaves. Requires Macromedia Flash Player plugin. From the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/undergroundrailroadexperience/index_flash.html Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2006 Slavery & Abolition in the U.S.: Select Publications of the 1800s
This site presents "a digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States as expressed by Americans throughout the nineteenth century." Search or browse by author, date, or topic focus (such as antislavery movements, slave narratives, and African American history). From the Dickinson College Archives and the Millersville University Archives. http://deila.dickinson.edu/slaveryandabolition/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Dec 16, 2008 Slavery and the Making of America
Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series "documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction." Historical overviews, personal narratives, character spotlights, images, and other materials highlight various aspects of the lives of slaves, such as family, religion, and living conditions. Includes educational materials and related reading, film and TV resources, and Web sites. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, United States History Last updated Feb 21, 2005 Slavery Era Insurance Registry
"In August 2000 the California legislature found that insurance policies from the slavery era have been discovered in the archives of several insurance companies, documenting insurance coverage for slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves, issued by a predecessor insurance firm." Here are three reports resulting from this discovery: information received from the insurers in response to the California legislature (May 2002), a registry by slave name, and a registry by slaveholder name. From the California Department of Insurance. http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0100-consumers/0300-public-programs/0200-slavery-era-insur/ Topics: Black Resources, Consumer Research & Advocacy, Finance, Labor, United States History Last updated Nov 5, 2005 Slavery in New York
This exhibit looks at the history of slavery in New York, spanning "the period from the 1600s to 1827, when slavery was legally abolished in New York State." Online galleries, featuring some of the images from the physical exhibit, explore different aspects of this "largely unknown chapter of the city's story." Includes maps, biographies, classroom materials, and a bibliography. From the New York Historical Society. http://www.slaveryinnewyork.org Topics: Black Resources, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Jul 30, 2006 Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860
This searchable collection contains over a hundred items documenting legal cases "concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States." Materials include accounts from "some of the defendants and plaintiffs themselves as well as those of abolitionists, presidents, politicians, slave owners, fugitive and free territory slaves, lawyers and judges, and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court." From the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ Topics: Black Resources, Crime, Judicial Process, Labor, United States History Last updated Feb 1, 2005 Sojourner Truth Institute
Website for this organization dedicated to preserving the message of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), a former slave who "traveled the country as a forceful and passionate advocate for the dispossessed, using her quick wit and fearless tongue to fight for human rights." Features an extensive biography of Truth, a timeline, images, speeches, an exhibit of art about Truth, a quiz, and details about the Sojourner Truth monument park in Battle Creek, Michigan. http://www.sojournertruth.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Notable People: Women Last updated Nov 16, 2007 Sojourner Truth: Online Resources
Annotated links to resources on former slave, abolitionist, and suffragist Sojourner Truth, including historical collections, exhibitions, lesson plans and classroom activities, photos, and related materials. Also includes a brief bibliography with biographies and titles for younger readers. Compiled by Angela McMillian, Digital Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress (LOC). http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/truth/ Topics: Black Resources, Notable People, Notable People: Women Last updated May 5, 2009 Territorial Kansas Online, 1854-1861
"Explore the turbulent times of 'Bleeding Kansas.' Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery." Features topics such as territorial politics, border warfare, immigration, and biographies of historical figures. Document archives are accompanied by a timeline, bibliography, lesson plans, images of "The Annals of Kansas," and related links. Browsable and searchable. From the Kansas State Historical Society and the University of Kansas. http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Correspondence, History, Labor, Lesson Plans, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, United States History Last updated Nov 2, 2005 This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series that "examines the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. ... [It] explores the connections between faith and the development of African-American cultural values." Features essays, a timeline, profiles, audio and video clips, show transcripts, and related links. http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Regions of the World Last updated Oct 14, 2004 Today in History: September 9: Stono Rebellion
Overview of this slave revolt that started on September 9, 1739, when "twenty black Carolinians met near the Stono River, approximately twenty miles southwest of Charleston. ... [It was] the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution. ... More than twenty white Carolinians and nearly twice as many black Carolinians were killed." Includes links to exhibits and collections. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep09.html Topics: Black Resources Last updated Aug 30, 2007 Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
This site provides access to the famous novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which is said to have been a cause of the Civil War. Users may browse all the primary material in the archive (texts, images, songs, 3-D objects, film clips, etc.) one at a time. They may also search all the primary material, or limit by the site's organizational categories. Use the Interpret Mode, which includes an interactive timeline, or virtual exhibits designed for exploring and understanding the primary material. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literature & Books Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Uncomfortable Truths: The Shadow of Slave Trading on Art & Design
The year 2007 "marks the bi-centenary of the parliamentary abolition of the slave trade [in the U.K.]." In commemoration, this site features material about the works of contemporary artists dealing with the legacies of slavery, and trails through the museum focusing on works related to slavery (such as black servants in British homes). Also includes a reading list. From the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/contemporary/past_exhns/uncomfortabletruths/ Topics: Black Resources Last updated Jul 3, 2008 The Underground Railroad
Explores the system that helped escaped African slaves in the United States to reach freedom safely. The site includes an interactive account of a runaway slave's trip, a map of escape routes, a timeline of slavery in the New World, and a section with portraits and short descriptions of abolitionists and civil rights leaders. Also includes educational activities for K-12 students, a discussion forum, and a list of resources and websites for further study. From National Geographic. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History Last updated Feb 3, 2005 Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
The full text of the autobiography of African American leader Booker T. Washington, and his essays "The Awakening of the Negro" (1896) and "Signs of Progress Among the Negroes" (1900). http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WASHINGTON/cover.html Topics: Black Resources, Education, Labor, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People Last updated Oct 4, 2004 Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
This website features "a searchable database of nearly 3700 Virginia emigrants to Liberia and nearly 250 Virginia emancipators, a timeline of relevant events and documents between 1787 and 1866, a compilation of important related sources, links to related research websites and news of Liberia today." The materials on this site expand upon a 2007 book on Virginia's role in the African colonization movement. From the Virginia Center for Digital History. http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/liberia/index.php?page=Virginia%20Emigrants%20To%20Liberia Topics: Black Resources, Emigration & Immigration Last updated Jan 21, 2009 Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Audio interviews of over twenty former slaves, "born between 1823 and the early 1860s, [who] discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom." Includes brief biographies, photographs, and songs. Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, United States History Last updated Oct 9, 2004 Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
This site provides access to four databases (Voyages, Estimates, Images, and African Names) with "information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries." Data includes summary statistics, timelines, graphs, and maps. Site also includes introductory essays, lesson plans, and links to related material. An Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative, with support from international partners. http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces Topics: Black Resources, United States History Last updated Dec 10, 2008 Wilberforce 2007
Website for the 2007 commemoration in Hull, England, of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in England. William Wilberforce, from Hull, introduced the "parliamentary bill to end the slave trade which was passed in the House of Commons in 1807 and throughout the British Empire in 1833." Includes brief background about Wilberforce, the slave trade between 1776 and 1807, and current human trafficking and human rights concerns. http://www.wilberforce2007.co.uk Topics: Black Resources Last updated Oct 2, 2007 William Still Underground Railroad Foundation, Inc.
This site focuses "on protecting and insuring the accurate depiction of the historical events pertaining to the UGRR [Underground Railroad] and Anti-Slavery Society." Contains a biography of abolitionist William Still (author of "Underground Railroad"), an article about the Still family history, information about programs at the foundation, current events, biographies of other abolitionists, and links to other Web sites. http://www.undergroundrr.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Notable People, United States History Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Within These Walls...
"Tells the stories of five families who lived in [an Ipswich, Massachusetts] house over 200 years." Explores "how their lives reflected the great changes and events in American history, from colonial times, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, immigration and industrialization, to World War II." Includes information for teachers. From the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Behring Center. http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/ Topics: Architecture, Black Resources, History, Labor, U.S. History By Place Last updated Feb 2, 2005 Yale, Slavery & Abolition
This essay addresses the issue that while "three Yale leaders stand in a tradition of strong opposition to slavery. ... In the 1930s and 1960s, Yale chose to name most of its colleges after slave owners and pro-slavery leaders." Essay includes discussion of individuals with buildings named after them and of Yale abolitionists, a description of an effort to establish a "Negro" college in New Haven, Connecticut, and a bibliography. From three Yale Ph.D. candidates. http://www.yaleslavery.org/ Topics: Black Resources, Labor, United States History Last updated Jan 14, 2004 |
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