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FYW: Writing Freedom: U.S. Abolition: Primary Sources
Special Collections
- Black Studies CenterThis collection combines essential resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.
- Black Abolitionist PapersProQuest's Black Abolitionist Papers (1830-1865) is an extraordinary, primary source collection and the first to comprehensively detail the extensive work of African Americans to abolish slavery in the United States prior to the Civil War. Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.
- Black Abolitionist ArchivesDetroit University-Mercy
- Digital Library on American SlaveryRace and Slavery Petitions Project
From UNCG Library. Includes:
Slave Deeds of North Carolina
NC Runaway Slave Advertisements
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database from Emory University
Collections of Digital Maps
- Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970)Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) provides more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. These maps are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
- Antiquarian MapsReed College
- South Caroliniana Map CollectionTaken together, the maps chart the state's urbanization over time. The collection also contains a number of maps dating from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, which are vital to researchers interested in the history of cartography.
- Historical Map ArchiveUniversity of Alabama collection.
Visual Sources
- Abolitionist MovementHistory Channel
- American Political PrintsLibrary of Congress
Letters, Official Records, Press, Memoirs etc.
- Slavery and Anti-SlaverySlavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is a four-part historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. It consists of more than five million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts and maps from many different countries
- Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.: Select Publications of the 1800sThe publications are all drawn from the holdings of the Millersville University Library and the Dickinson College Library, as well as each of their respective Special Collections Departments. The collection includes more than 24,000 individual pages of printed text and corresponding searchable transcriptions. This online resource is made freely available to the public, and we hope that providing these rare and important research materials will enhance teaching and learning, at all levels of instruction, about this complex issue.
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet CollectionLibrary of Congress-American Memory Project
- American Broadsides and EphemeraBuilt in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, this full-color digital edition offers searchable facsimiles of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900. Featuring documents produced locally across the country, these rare items vividly capture the daily lives of earlier Americans.
- Ancestry Library EditionGenealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
- African American History in the Press, 1851-1899Ref E 185.2 1996
2 Volumes
The Schneider Collection. From the coming of the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow as reported and illustrated in selected newspapers of the time. - The Black Abolitionist Papers: 1830-1865. 5 VolumesVolume 1. The British Isles, 1830-1865
Volume 2. Canada, 1830-1865
Volume 3. United States, 1830-1846
Volume 4. United States, 1847-1858
Volume 5. United States, 1859-1865 - Slavery in America and the World: history, Culture and LawA multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Our cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.
- African American Mosaic-Library of CongressPrimary Documents on the following:
Personal Stories & New Directions- Abolition
Prominent Abolitionists
Abolition & Slavery - The Press and AbolitionPBS American Experience primary documents
- American Periodicals SeriesDigitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
- African American Studies CenterA comprehensive collection of scholarship focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Includes 7,500 articles. The core content includes Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
- The Crisis of the UnionPamphlets, 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.
- Civil War in the American SouthThis site provides a central portal to access digital collections from the Civil War Era (1850-1865) held by members of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL).