LibGuides: Primary Sources: Slavery & Abolition: General

Online Sources: Slavery - General Sources

African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Focuses on memories of the slave trade from the African perspective. African chiefs & other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana - once famously called "the Old Slave Coast" - share stories.
CNU ONLY
Slave Societies Digital Archives
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"The Slave Societies Digital Archive (SSDA), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World."
How to Look for British transatlantic slave trade records
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A research guide from the UK archives designed to give "an overview of the major original sources at The National Archives that relate to aspects of the slave trade, slavery and unfree labour in the British Caribbean and American colonies."
Last Seen: Finding Family after Slavery
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"Last Seen is recovering stories

of families separated in the domestic slave trade. Formerly enslaved people placed these ads hoping to reconnect with family and loved ones for decades following emancipation. The ads serve as testaments to their enduring hope and determination to regain what was taken from them. "
Library of Congress - Digital Collections - African American History
NYPL Digital Gallery: Africana & Black History
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"Several thousand items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL website "African American Migration Experience." "
Recovered Histories
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"The collection of pamphlets and supplementary texts within Recovered Histories covers a century of campaigning in Europe and America, capturing the voices of the enslaved, enslavers, slave ship surgeons, abolitionists, parliamentarians, the clergy, planters and rebels."

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law via HeinOnline
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"This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known 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."

Teaching American History Documents
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"TeachingAmericanHistory.org is a project of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. The Ashbrook Center is an independent, non-partisan non-profit, the mission of which is to restore and strengthen the capacities of the American people for constitutional self-government. To fulfill this mission, Ashbrook offers educational programs for students, teachers, and citizens."
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
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Includes a database of documented slaving expeditions and a database identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.

Book Sources: Slavery - General Sources

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
Click the title for location and availability information.

Off campus access instructions (for e-books)

An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa by Alexander Falconbridge
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Africa and the West - A Documentary History by William H. Worger; Edward A. Alpers; Nancy L. Clark
Call Number: DT353.5.E9 A34 2010
ISBN: 0195373480
V. 1. From the slave trade to conquest, 1441-1905
v. 2. From colonialism to independence, 1875 to the present
Africa and the West:A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence by William H. Worger et.al.
Call Number: DT353.5.E9 A34 2001
ISBN: 1573562475
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade by Alice Bellagamba (Editor) et al.
Call Number: HT1321 .B39 2013
ISBN: 0521194709
American Slave Revolts and Conspiracies by Kerry Walters
Call Number: E447 .W37 2015
ISBN: 161069659X
The Atlantic Slave Trade by Johannes Postma
Call Number: HT1322 .P67 2003
ISBN: 031331862X
"Following this extensive analytical section are biographies of important persons—both black and white—in the history of the slave trade. Thirteen primary documents show students the actual words of the participants. "
Chronology of World Slavery by Junius P. Rodriguez
Call Number: REF HT861 .R63 1999
ISBN: 0874368847
Covers the Ancient World -- Europe -- Asia -- Africa -- Latin America -- United States -- Contemporary History -- Documents
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion by Junius P. Rodriguez
Call Number: REF E447 .E53 2007
ISBN: 0313332711
Primary documents in v.2
Memoir addressed to the general, constituent and legislative Assembly of the empire of Brazil, on Slavery! by Jose Bonifacio d'Andrada e Silva
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Translated from the Portuguese by William Walton.
Cover title: Brazilian pamphlet on the abolition of the slave trade, and the gradual emancipation of slaves
Modern Slavery: a Documentary and Reference Guide by Laura J. Lederer
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 1440844992
Covers aspects of slavery from the 16th century to modern day by providing access to primary source documents.
Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804 (1st edition) by Laurent Dubois & John Garrigus
Call Number: F2151 .D86 2006
ISBN: 1403971579
a brief history with documents
Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804 (2nd edition) by Laurent Dubois; John D. Garrigus
Call Number: F2151 .D86 2017
ISBN: 1319048781
: A Brief History with Documents
Slavery in the Sudan: History, Documents, and Commentary by Mohamed Ibrahim Nugud; Asma Mohamed Abdel Halim (Translator); Sharon Barnes (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781137286024
Defining Documents in American History: Slavery [print] by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.
Call Number: E441 .S54 2019
ISBN: 9781642652819
Defining Documents in American History: Slavery [ebook] by Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.
Call Number: E441 .S54 2019
ISBN: 9781642652819

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