LibGuides: HIS 120 Abolition & Antislavery Movements: Primary & Archival

Primary & Archival Sources

Slavery And Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive, Parts 1- 4 This link opens in a new window
The Slavery And Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive contains 4 parts. The parts are, Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, Part III: The Institution of Slavery, and Part IV: The Age of Emancipation. Books, manuscripts, journals, are more tell the story of the transatlantic slave trade, abolition, emancipation, and the societal factors that contributed to it.
History Commons from Coherent Digital (formerly Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new window
A rich collection of primary source material as it relates to American History. Collections of historical newspapers, cultural pamphlets, and primary source collections of materials are available to researchers.

The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
Materials gathered by the Library of Congress over two hundred years tell the story of the African American experience
through nine chronological periods that document the courage and determination of blacks, faced with adverse circumstances,
who overcame immense odds to participate in all aspects of American society.
The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It.
Helper, Hinton Rowan. New York, A.B. Burdick, 1859.
Antislavery Petitions Dataverse
Race and Slavery Petition Project (UNC Greensboro))
The Project offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.
North American Slave Narratives (University of North Carolina)
"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of Black people struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of self-emancipated and formerly enslaved people
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project (Library of Congress)
contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

Witness for Freedom : African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation.
African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation from the five-volume Black abolitionist papers.
University of North Carolina Press.
Visual Record of the African Slave Trade
A digital archive for hundreds of historical images, paintings, lithographs, and photographs illustrating
enslaved Africans and their descendants before c. 1900.