'I Will Be Heard' abolitionism in America
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/emancipation.htm
This site provides access to an online exhibit created by the division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University libraries. It includes access to a background history and digitised images of manuscripts, letters and other primary source documents. Topics covered include: slave narratives and the emancipation movement in the USA. Brief biographies of key abolitionists such as Abraham Lincoln are also included.
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1807 Commemorated : the abolition of the slave trade
http://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/index.html
1807 Commemorated was a project of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP), University of York. It focused upon researching how British people commemorated the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. This offers insight into issues surrounding memory and contemporary public understanding of slavery and the slave trade. The website provides information on the aims and activities of the project. It includes access to press releases, full text reports and surveys. Topics covered include: media responses and representations of the bicentenary; analysis of museum displays and artwork throughout the country and audience responses from the public.
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200th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the UK web archive
http://www.archive-it.org/collections/866
This site contains a database of over 100 archived websites relating to the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain. They have been archived by the Archive-It subscription service created by the Internet Archive. They include sites from UK government departments, local government authorities, charities and heritage organisations. Each entry has snapshots of the site from different dates which capture news stories. The collection may be searched or browsed. They offer insight into the activities arranged for the anniversary, and the types of programmes and projects used to inform and educate the public about slavery and the slave trade in 2007.
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21st Century Abe
http://www.21stcenturyabe.org/
This site was created by the Rosenbach Museum & Library to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of American president Abraham Lincoln. During 2009 it encouraged scholars and artists to use the site to discuss the importance of Lincoln's legacy for 21st Century America. A centrepiece of the site are digital images of 30 key manuscripts and documents associated with Lincoln's life and political career. They include materials relating to the American civil war, the Gettysburg Address, race, slavery and emancipation and his family life. The site also includes an artist's section where contemporary composers, artists and media specialists have created their own online 'installations and art works' which interpret Lincoln's legacy and a resource centre where site users have contributed their own Youtube videos and links to sites, online exhibitions and images relating to Abraham Lincoln. technical and copyright information is displayed on the website.
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Abolition 200: the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade
http://www.abolition200.org.uk/
This site was created by 24 Hour Museum with support from the Museum Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). to provide coverage of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the UK. It provides access to a directory of events, links to British museums and galleries with archival collections on the abolition, black history and the lives of reformers such as William Wilberforce. A section for teachers includes links to lists of useful books and resources and a directory of websites with online documents and artefacts.
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Abolition of slavery: National Archives resources and guides
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery/
This site has been created by the British National Archives. It provides free access to its guide to Britain, the transatlantic slave trade and the abolition of slavery. It includes a background history, plus free access to study guides for teachers; a guide to relevant archive holdings and a selection of free online primary source documents. The online documents include examples of legal manuscripts and letters which have been digitised. Course materials relate specifically to the impact of the Abolition acts of 1807 and 1833 upon the slave trade.
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Abolition: BBC resources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/abolition/
This site was created by the BBC to commemorate the Abolition of slavery act in 1807. It provides free acces to a history of the Anti-slavery movement in the UK; with articles, timelines and discussion of key events and figures. Other features of the site include an interactive map of the slave Trade, Resistance and Abolition; and video and audio excerpts from BBC programmes. These include debates about the modern day legacy of slavery and discussion by members of the public.
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Abolition: History Now September 2005 special issue
http://www.historynow.org/09_2005/index.html
This site provides free access to History Now issue no.5 which was published in 2005 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It contains a small collection of articles about the emancipation movement and history of the abolition of slavery in the USA in the 18th and 19th Centuries. These include discussion of the role of religion and black women in anti-slavery movements. It includes a directory of other recommended websites.
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Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the civil war ebooks: Illinois Harvest collection
http://illinoisharvest.grainger.uiuc.edu/results.asp?searchtype=collectionc
The Illinois Harvest is a project of the University of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is working in collaboration with the Open Content Alliance to provide free access to a large collection of online materials taken from the holdings of its libraries. This section of the website provides free access to over 200 titles relating to American president Abraham Lincoln, the American civil war, slavery and emanicipation. They include biographies of Lincoln. Most materials are published during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Technical and copyright details are displayed on the website
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Africa South of the Sahara: human rights links
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/hurights.html
An annotated guide to Internet sites relating to human rights in Africa. This is part a larger Web guide to Africa-related sites called "Africa South of the Sahara", produced by Stanford University (USA). It is designed for students, faculty, librarians, and others.
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African American Perspectives - Pamphlets from the Daniel A P Murray Collection 1818-1907
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
This site contains the full-text of a large number of pamphlets and leaflets produced during the period 1818-1907 relating to Black African American history and culture. They include rare documents concerning black identity from such famous authors as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, and texts relating to race relations, slavery, the slave trade, emancipation and the black civil rights movement at the turn of the century. The collection can be browsed by subject or author. Featured topics include: slave narratives, sermons, anti-slavery movements and the position of women slaves. In addition to the pamphlets, the site also contains a select bibliography of further readings and a timeline of black history. The collection is held by the Library of Congress.
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African American West, 1528-2000
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayseries.aspx?pID=868&fID=4461
This site provides free access to a series of 5 video lectures on the history of the struggle for equality of black African Americans. They were presented by the University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences and the Alumni Association in 2006. Each lecture covers a different chronological period. Topics covered include: slavery and the slave trade; emancipation and the civil rights movement. This version is made available on Research Channel.Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website.
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African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine (1774)
http://www.thomaspaine.org/Archives/afri.html
This site contains the full-text of the essay by Paine which was originally published in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser on March 8th 1775. Paine was a member of the first anti-slavery society in America which was founded shortly after the writing of this piece. The article describes current practises of African American slavery and argues against the injustices of them on religious and moral grounds.
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African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html
This site provides access to a selection of full-text historical documents relating to the history and experiences of black people in Ohio during the period 1850-1920 which have been supplied by the Ohio Historical Society. They include manuscripts and photographs relating to slavery, emancipation, the civil liberties of African Americans and the move towards racial integration. This collection is made available on the Internet as part of the Library of Congress American memory project.
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African-Americans: Biography, Autobiography and History
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/african_americans.htm
This site forms part of Project Avalon which is maintained by Yale Law School. It provides access to a collection of the most important primary source writings of Black African American civil rights campaigners of the 19th and 20th centuries. These include: Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and WEB Du Bois. Topics covered include: African-American slavery in the USA, emancipation and the black civil rights movement. The site is fully searchable by subject keyword.
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Africana and black history: NYPL Digital Collection
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=hist
The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to thousands of digitised images of primary resource materials held in the collections of the New York Public Library and its archives. This collection contains several thousand examples of photographs, prints and documents relating to Black history from the 16th until the early 20th Century. It includes substantial coverage of the Atlantic slave trade, the lives of slaves in the colonies, accounts of travellers, colonization and the emanicipation of slaves. Many give insight into white attitudes towards other races. Each image has a full bibliographic description. Copyright details are displayed on the site.
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Africana Conference Paper Index
http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?PAGE=dbPage&SEQ
This site provides access to a searchable catalogue of references to papers and Africana Conference Proceedings which are held by Northwestern University Library. They cover economic, political and social studies of Africa and African nations. Key topics include elections and demcoracy in Africa, colonialism and colonial administration, slavery, the slave trade and emancipation, Africa and international trade, economic development and famine. All materials are in Western languages. They include useful examples of grey literature. Full bibliographic references are provided. Users should note that the database forms part of NUCAT. They therefore need to select the correct option to restrict searches to it.
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Africana digitization project
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Africana/
This site has been created by the University of Wisconsin. It provides free access to a small collection of electronic books relevant to the political and economic history of Africa. These include: Fage, J. D., A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages (African Studies Program, UW-Madison, 1994); Lovejoy, Paul E. (ed.), Africans in bondage: studies in slavery and the slave trade: essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986); Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617* (privately produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair). Topics of key interest are historical accounts of slavery. The database may be searched or browsed. Copyright details are displayed on the site.
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Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This site was created by US broadcasting company PBS to support one of its documentary series. It provides free access to a history of African Americans and slavery from 1450-1865. It includes coverage of the life of slaves, struggle against slavery in the American South and emancipation. The site is subdivided into four historical periods, each of which contains a narrative history plus access to digitised images and documents plus a teachers guide with suggested classroom activities.
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Africans in bondage : studies in slavery and the slave trade : essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AfricaFocus/AfricaFocus-idx?id=Afr
This site provides free access to the full text of the book which was published by African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986. ISBN 0299970205. The 378 page text comprises 13 essays by leading experts on different aspects of the history of the slave trade. Chapters include the slave trade in the Niger Delta, the slave trade in Spanish America 1703-1739; slave prices in the Portuguese southern Atlantic 1600-1800 and the relationship between the slave trade, Empire and other forms of commerce.
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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820
http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/
This site provides access to an African slave database developed by Dr Gwendolyn Midlo Hall marketed commercially as CD-ROM Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History. It is available on the Internet via the Ibiblio.org site. It offers a searchable database of information about slaves, slave owning and the slave trade in the American South (Louisiana) between 1719-1820. This includes statistics on the numbers, ages, occupations and ethnicity of the slaves and slave owners. Information on slave prices emancipation and slave testimonies is also provided. Data may be downloaded in zipped file formats. Also accessible from the site are scanned images of some original primary source documents relating to slavery and background information on the creation of the database.
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Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/stern-lincoln/index.html
The Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana forms part of the collection of the Library of Congress. It comprises materials relating to the life and political career of former American president Abraham Lincoln. They include materials of value for researching the American civil war, slavery and emancipation. Elements of the collection are being digitised as part of the Library of Congress American Memory website. They include letters written by Abraham Lincoln, political cartoons, election leaflets, portraits of Lincoln, newspaper articles and papers from Lincoln's law practice. The site also offers some background essays on the scope and importance of the collection and a full catalogue.
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America: Empire of Liberty
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/america/
This site provides free access to podcasts of the BBC radio 4 series America: Empire of Liberty which was transmitted in 2008 and covered the historical development of the USA, with a primary focus on the three key themes of empire, liberty and faith. Topics covered include the political history of the USA, the development of democratic government and the history of slavery and emanicipation. The presenter is David Reynolds Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ's College. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website. The site also includes an online gallery of contemporary prints and drawigns relating to American political history and a bibliography of further readings.
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American Missionary 1878-1901
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.journals/amis.html
This site forms part of the Cornell University Making of America electronic library. It provides access to the full text of the American Missionary journal (1878-1901) which was published by the American Missionary Association. This title contains articles on the history of American protestant missionaries and their work in promoting Christian values. The attitudes of the church towards African American slavery, discussion of slavery and emancipation in the USA and Africa.
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Americas Archive
http://oaap.rice.edu/index.html
The Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is collaboration between Rice Universitys Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center (HRC), the University of Marylands Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Instituto Mora in Mexico which is seeking to creative an innovative online archive of scholarly source materials covering the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. (North America, USA, Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America). Key collections include Rice University- Americas Archive (containing manuscripts, documents, letters, images relating to colonisation 1811 to 1920) ; University of Maryland - Early Americas Digital Archive (a collection of electronic texts of transcribed literary-historical narratives written in or about the Americas from 1492-1820). Instituto Mora - Fondo Antiguo Biblioteca Ernesto de la Torre Villar (a collection of rare materials from the XVI to XIX centuries). These offer researchers valuable insight into colonisation, conquest, exploration, colonial encounters and slavery in this region. There are also associated research modules with selected links and advice for teachers. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website.
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