- Abolitionist, The
Articles related to the anti-Slavery movement. Includes a history of John Brown, the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin, and William Garrison.
www.afgen.com/slave1.html
- Abolitionists Biographies
Brief biographies of notable figures in abolitionism.
www.factmonster.com/spot/bhmpeople16.html
- African American Journey: Missouri Compromise
Plan agreed upon by the United States Congress in 1820 to settle the debate over slavery in the Louisiana Purchase area.
www2.worldbook.com/features/aajourney/html/bh041.html
- African-American Mosaic: Colonization
Articles and images devoted to the American Colonization Society's efforts to send free African-Americans to Liberia from 1817 to 1867.
lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
- African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Online exhibit chronicling the experience of Africans on American soil from 1619 to 1865.
www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
- Africans in America
Companion site to the PBS series which examines the economic and intellectual foundations of racial slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. Includes a teacher's guide.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia
- Antislavery Literature Project, The
Collaborative electronic publishing project highlighting the origins of multicultural literature in the United States.
antislavery.eserver.org
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Hundreds of images collected by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.
hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in America, The
Contains information on slavery and the slave trade in America. Includes facts and figures related to salvery, images, and lists links and sources on the subject.
www.slaverysite.com
- Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People
Describes the story of the escaped slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolution and were evacuated to Canada.
blackloyalist.com/canadiandigitalcollection
- Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
Important events in the evolution of slavery in North America.
www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
- Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
From the Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam007.html
- Declaration of Sentiments (1833)
Statements of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
www2.vscc.cc.tn.us/socialscience/FinalDocs/Jacksonian/AASS.htm
- DiscoverySchool.com: Understanding Slavery
Includes one slave's story and a description of a slave auction.
school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery
- Emancipation Proclamation@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Lincoln__Abraham__1809_1865_/Emancipation_Proclamation
- Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Books and documents concerning the history of emancipation during the American Civil War.
www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Presents pamphlets published by African American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, emancipation, reconstruction, and related topics. From The Library of Congress.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml
- Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
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Companion to the traveling exhibit commemorating the struggle against slavery and its abolition.
digital.nypl.org/lwf/english/site/flash.html
- New Jersey Supreme Court Cases Relating to Slavery
Summaries of cases from the 18th and 19th centuries.
etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/VarJers.html
- On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American Life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61
Describes the changing position of Charleston's free mulatto elite up to the Civil War.
etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH36/poole1.html
- Pictures from the 1839 Anti-Slavery Almanac
Illustrations of the slave trade.
www.picturehistory.com/find/c/158/p/6/start/0
- Pictures of Slavery in Church and State
Personal reminiscences and views by Rev. John Dixon Long, 1817-1894.
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/long/long.html
- Religion of the Slaves, The
Lecture on the religious life of Southern slaves.
www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/twelve.html
- Securing the Leg Irons
"Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791" - The Early America Review, Winter 1996-97.
earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/slavery.html
- Slavery - The Peculiar Institution
Discusses the Atlantic slave trade and liberation strategies. From the U.S. Library of Congress' African American Odyssey web site.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
- Slavery in New York
Exhibition from the New York Historical Society.
www.slaveryinnewyork.org
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Archived collection of pamphlets and books concerning the experiences of African and African American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml
- Spartacus Educational: The Slave Trade
Features slave accounts, the slave system, events, women's anti-slavery societies, legislation, and American anti-slavery campaigners.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
- Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices
Online exhibit from the Special Collections Library at Duke.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery
- Thomas Jefferson on Slavery
1781 commentary by Thomas Jefferson in which he appeals for the end of slavery as degrading to the Southern family and endangering the liberty of all.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.htm
- Time of the Lincolns, The
Film examining the Lincolns' personal history, slavery and freedom, and the Civil War.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns
- United States National Slavery Museum
Telling the story of American slavery and its impact on our nation's institutions and individuals. Includes information for teachers, events calendar, and news on the construction of a permanent museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
www.usnationalslaverymuseum.org
- Voices From the Days of Slavery
Provides sound recordings of former slaves describing their lives. From the U.S. Library of Congress.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices
- Wikipedia: Slavery in North America
Hyperlinked information on the history of slavery in the U.S.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Slavery_in_North_America
- Wilmot Proviso@
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Wilmot_Proviso
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