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Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive [Gale]Contains primary source documents from the United States & Europe, as well as other parts of the world; formats include antebellum books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, images, and extensive archival material.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & LawEssential legal materials on slavery in the US & the English-speaking world: All statutes passed by each colony & state on slavery, plus all federal statutes; all reported state & federal cases on slavery; English-language legal commentary before 1920; pamphlets & books on slavery from the 19th century; relevant Congressional debates; and supporting books & law review articles.
Digitized Books, Newspapers, Magazines, etc.
Accessible ArchivesContains 19th century American newspapers (including African American), US county histories, and notable magazines (Godey's Ladies Book, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, etc.)
American Periodicals [ProQuest] 18th-early 20th CenturyCombines American Periodical Series (APS) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries, offering full text access to 18th-early 20th century American magazines and journals.
Early American Imprints, 1639-1820Books, pamphlets, and broadsides on every aspect of American life, based on Charles Evan's American Bibliography and the continuation by Shaw-Shoemaker.
In the 1930's, the Federal Writers' Project (part of the WPA, or Works Progress Administration) sent out-of-work writers to 17 states to conduct interviews with former slaves. The writers collected over 2,000 narratives, compiled here. To search, click on Contents, then Slave Narratives from the FWP, then use the Search within these results box in the upper left corner.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
The American Slave by George P. RawickVol. 2-17 consist of transcriptions of narratives prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-38, and deposited in the Library of Congress, where they were assembled under title: Slave narratives, a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves.
Will launch in a few months. Watch for additional records that will be available for indexing on DiscoverFreedmen.org, if you'd like to participate in this crowd-sourced project.
7 hours of recorded interviews, in which 23 interviewees, born 1823-1860's, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion, the family, & freedom.