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Slavery: Primary Sources: Home

Selected E-Books

Find books in the Library Catalog.

Ex.: slave* "united states" sources

Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History
Call Number: Print book and Ebook available--click title for access.
Witness for Freedom by C. Peter Ripley (Editor)
Call Number: Print Version and Ebook--click for access.
ISBN: 0807844047
Publication Date: 1993-02-01
Freedom: a Documentary History of Emancipation: Land and Labor, 1865
Call Number: Ebook
The American Debate over Slavery, 1760-1865
Call Number: Ebook

General Digital Collections

Digital Public Library of America
Search digital collections from archives and libraries across the United States.
National Museum of African American History & Culture

Library-Purchased

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law

Includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject.
Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Part 1

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Title List (pdf)
ProQuest LibGuide (help and documentation)
Slavery and the Law (1775-1867)

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Title List (pdf)
ProQuest LibGuide (help and documentation)

Newspapers/Runaway Slaves

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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North Carolina
Virginia
Texas
Louisiana
Freedom on the Move
Search ads from numerous states.

African American Newspapers (Accessible Archives)

Titles in Collection:
The Christian Recorder
The Colored American/Weekly Advocate
Frederick Douglass' Paper
Freedom's Journal
The National Era
The North Star
Provincial Freeman

Abolitionists

Slave Narratives

A Muslim American slave: the life of Omar Ibn Said

Slavery & Universities

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Subjects: History

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