AAP Sites on Abolition

Web Sites on American Abolition

General Top: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies; Abolitionism, 1830-1850, University of Virginia; Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation, H-Net; Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy, Library of Congress; Abolitionism, Africans in America, PBS; Reform Impulse (1831), Learner.org; The African-American Mosaic, Library of Congress

State & Local History Top: The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920, Ohio Historical Society; Organizing Abolition: Anti-Slavery Societies in Massachusetts, Old Sturbridge Village; Yale, Slavery, & Abolitionists, Yale University


Underground Railroad Top
: The Underground Railroad, National Geographic; Underground Railroad, The Time of the Lincolns, PBS; Follow the Drinking Gourd, NASA Quest; Freedom Trail in Central New York (.pdf), National Register of Historic Places; Oswego County (NY) Underground Railroad, Oswego County Freedom Trail Commission; Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, Millersville University
Indiana Freedom Trail: Underground Railroad Sites, Indiana Historical Bureau
Follow the North Star, Conner Prairie Settlement


Resistance & Rebellion Top
: Death or Liberty: Gabriel, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Library of Virginia; The Vesey Conspiracy, Africans in America, PBS; Nat Turner's Rebellion, Africans in America, PBS; The Amistad Case, National Portrait Gallery; John Brown's Holy War, American Experience, PBS; John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow, University of Virginia


Slave Trade Top: Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; The Slave Trade Archives Project, UNESCO


Images & Exhibitions Top: A Durable Memento: Augustus Washington in Liberia, National Portrait Gallery; 1846: Portrait of the Nation, National Portrait Gallery; Images of African Americans in the 19th Century, Digital Schomburg; Massachusetts Dageurreotypes, Daguerreian Society. Includes Faneuil Hall, John Brown, Jonathan Walker's branded hand, and nurse and child.; Images of American Political History, Tolerance, Abolition, Suffrage, and Civil Rights, Teaching Politics; The Face of American Slavery, Museum of American Photography


Writers & Literature Top
: Also see Documents & Electronic Texts; From Slavery to Freedom, Literature & Life, PBS; Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, University of Virginia; African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, Digital Schomburg


Civil War Top
: United States Civil War Center, Abolition and Slavery, Louisiana State University; The Antislavery Press and the American Civil War, R.J.M. Blackett

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