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Slave Narratives Top

North American Slave Narratives, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina

Narratives in this collection include those of the following persons (among many others):

Lewis and Milton Clarke

William and Ellen Craft

Frederick Douglass (Narrative, My Bondage and My Freedom, Life and Times [1881] [1892])

James W.C. Pennington

Sojourner Truth [1850] [1875] [1884]

Nat Turner

Samuel R. Ward

The Roving Editor, Chapter IV, by James Redpath

Excerpts from Slave Narratives, edited by Stephen Mintz

Biography of an American Bondman, by Josephine Brown, Digital Schomburg

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days, by Annie L. Burton, Digital Schomburg

"My Escape from Slavery," by Frederick Douglass, Century Illustrated Magazine, Project Gutenberg

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, Digital Schomburg

A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince, Digital Schomburg

The Narrative of Bethany Veney, Digital Schomburg

Government Documents Top

Slavery Documents, Avalon Project, Yale Law School

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, Africans in America, PBS

Missouri Compromise, Africans in America, PBS
Missouri Compromise and Henry Clay, Library of Congress

Dred Scott Case, Washington University Libraries

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Project Gutenberg

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 1862, (Transcript) National Archives and Records Administration

Emancipation Proclamation (Transcript), issued in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, Project Gutenberg

Emancipation Proclamation, National Archives and Records Administration

District of Columbia Emancipation Act, National Archives and Records Administration

Newspapers & Magazines: Editorials & Articles Top

The 19th Century in Print--Periodicals, Library of Congress

Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-64, HarpWeek.com

The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, Ohio Historical Society

African Slavery in America, by Thomas Paine, Libertystory.net

Introduction of the Liberator, Libertystory.net

Franklin County (VA): Slavery, Free Labor and Politics, Valley of the Shadow, University of Virginia

Editorials from the St. Louis and Alton Observer, relating to Illinois and antislavery, State of Illinois

Secession Era Editorials Project, Furman University

Pamphlets, Ephemera, & Artifacts Top

Antislavery & Civil War Ephemera, Library of Congress

An American Timecapsule, Ephemera and Broadsides (search page), Library of Congress

African American Perspectives, pamphlets, Library of Congress

Prospectus of Frederick Douglass' Paper, Rochester (NY) Public Library

Am I Not a Man and a Brother? Africans in America, PBS

Garrison Antislavery Banner, Massachusetts Historical Society

Fiction Top

: Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, University of Virginia; Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine, by William Wells Brown, Project Gutenberg


Speeches Top
: Last Speech, by John Brown, Project Gutenberg; Murder of Elijah Lovejoy, by Wendell Phillips, Libertystory.net; Crime Against Kansas, by Charles Sumner, Furman University; Ain't I a Woman?, by Sojourner Truth


Correspondence Top: Hannah Valentine/Lethe Jackson Slave Letters, Duke University; Wendell Phillips to Frederick Douglass, Project Gutenberg; Milo Adams Townsend, Peggy Jean Townsend and Charles Walker Townsend III


Organizational Documents Top: Preamble to the Free American Society, Africans in America, PBS; Declaration of Sentiments, American Anti-Slavery Society, Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy; Journal of the Upper Alton Lyceum, State of Illinois; Antislavery Almanac 1839 (pictures), Old Sturbridge Village
Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society


Music Top: The Drinking Gourd, Popular Songs in American History; Follow the Drinking Gourd, NASA Quest; John Brown's Body, Popular Songs in American History; Antislavery Harp, by William Wells Brown, University of Virginia; Antislavery Songs, Frederick Douglass Papers, Library of Congress; African American Sheet Music from Brown University, Library of Congress; Slavery is a Hard Foe to Battle, Hutchinson Family, Library of Congress; Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad, Appleseed Recordings


Collections of Documents Top: Historical Documents, Africans in America, PBS; Electronic Text Center, African Americans, University of Virginia; Making of America (digital library), University of Michigan; Online Documents, Gilder Lehrman Center

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