Print Resources

Recommended Websites

General Sites

• Avalon Project-Documents on Slavery
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
• The Online Insitute for Advanced Loyalist Studies-Black Loyalists
• African American Perspectives

Slave Narratives

• Documenting of the American South
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers Project 1936-1938
• African Slave Narratives

State Information

• Terrirotial Kansas Online 1854-1861
• The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
• The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
• Pennsylvania Abolition Society

Indentured Servents

• Immigrant Servent Database.
• Indentured Servants & Apprentice Records Index 1700-1855-Chester County Pennsylvania

Court and Government Documents

• St Louis Circut Court Historical Records Project-Freedom Suits
• Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves
• Slaves and the Courts 174-1860
• Race and Slavery Petition Project
• Servent and Slavery Recod Indeex-Chester County Pennsylvania
  
• Amistad Trials
• Dred Scott Case

19th Century Newspaper and Periodicals

• Freedom's Journal: The First African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States
• Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874

Visual Archives

• The Atlantic Stave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Abolitionist Archives

• Frederick Douglass Papers
• Samual J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
• Black Abolitionist Archive

Resistance

• Death or Liberty: Gabrial, Nat Turner and John Brown

Census Data

• Historical Census Browser

For questions regarding the information on this site please email me at finkey@uwosh.edu
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