Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), photograph, Library of Congress
JUMP TO:
SLAVERY / ABOLITION & REBELLION / SLAVE SPIRITUALS
TIMELINES
& OUTLINES (Most include info, too)
TIMELINE: American Slavery to 1800
TIMELINE: History of Slavery, 1619 - 1789
TIMELINE: History Of Slavery And Racism: 1790 - 1829
TIMELINE: History Of Slavery And Racism 1830 To The End
TIMELINE: Slavery and Religion in America: 1440-1866
TIMELINE: Chronology of Emancipation
TIMELINE: African American History, 1852-1880 - 1881-1900 - 1901-1925
TIMELINE: John Brown
TIMELINE: Frederick Douglass
TIMELINE: African Slave Trade & European Imperialism
OUTLINE: Colonial Slavery
OUTLINE: The Peculiar Institution of American Slavery
History Of Liberia: A Time Line
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Informed ReSource: Historical Documents Regarding Slavery
Slavery Images
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Slavery
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Jefferson on Slavery
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Readings on Slavery from the Early Presidents
THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT ON SLAVES
Slave Narratives
DPLS Archive: Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
Description of a Slave Auction
Slave Narrative: "I Saw a Slave Ship" by Gustavus Vassa, 1791
THE GENERAL FEATURES OF SLAVERY ARE THE SAME
"MY BEDSTEAD CONSISTED OF A BOARD WIDE ENOUGH TO SLEEP ON"
"WE LODGED IN LOG HUTS"
"THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REST"
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
"I CANNOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU": Childhood in Slavery Narrative
"THE WANT OF PARENTAL CARE AND ATTENTION": Slave Child Narrative
"I DISCOVERED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MYSELF AND MY MASTER'S WHITE CHILDREN"
William Lloyd Garrison, Editorial in The Liberator, Volume I, 1831
CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY, 1833
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: John C. Calhoun, "Slavery a Positive Good," 1837
PRIMARY DOCUMENTPlaindealer (New York), "The Blessings of Slavery," 1837
The Amistad Case - The Arguments of John Quincy Adams before the Supreme Court - 1841
JOHN BROWN'S LAST SPEECH November 2, 1859
Emancipation in the Federal Territories, June 19, 1862
Lincoln's Appeal to Border State Representatives on Compensated Emancipation
Maryland Fugitive Slave to his Wife
Congressional Joint Resolution on compensated emancipation, April 10, 1862
Congressional Joint Resolution Freeing Families of Black Soldiers
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: A Letter from a Slave to His Former Master, 1865
Hannah Valentine & Lethe Jackson Slave Letters - Duke Special Collection
Scartoons Introduction
UNESCO - Slave Trade Archives Project
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Pluralism: Removal; Freedom; Slavery
African American Literature: Voices of Slavery and Freedom - Earliest Works and Literary Legacy of Slavery - More African American Literature is available on my African Americans page.
IMAGES: Beyond Face Value - Depictions of Slavery on Confederate Currency
Beyond Face Value - The Images
Slavery and Slavery-Like Practices
Creative Quotations from Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
More available in each section on this page and on my Civil War Primary Documents page.
MAPS & GRAPHS
Africans in America: Clickable Map of the British Colonies
Slave Population: MAP
Virginia Slave Migration, frames
The Geography of Virginia's Slave Market
MAP: Triangle Trade Routes
MAP: West African Slave Trade
MAP: Underground Railroad Routes 1860
MAP: Free and Slave Areas, 1821-1850
MAPS: Charting the African American Journey
MAP: Free and Slave Areas, 1861
GRAPH: Slavery and the U.S. Presidents
More maps available in other sections on this page and on my Civil War Maps page.
BEFORE THE WAR
Constitution On Slavery
African American Ancestry
African American Heroes 1750-1860
Africans in America: New York's Revolt of 1712
Africans in America: Witchunt in New York - The 1741 Rebellion
Free Blacks before the Revolutionary War
Free Blacks Before the Civil War
First Blacks Of Portsmouth, NH
Slavery and the American Revolution
FREE-BLACKS
Free Blacks before the Revolutionary War
Free Blacks Before the Civil War
Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspapers
On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, SC
Fort Mose: Free African Settlement in Florida
American Colonization Society (ACS) (Library of Congress)
Liberia: African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
Liberian Colony in 1822
The Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony -1863
Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
Quobna Ottabah Cugoano: a Former Slave Speaks Out
Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Black Moderates And Black Militants in the early 1800s.
THE "PECULIAR" INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY
MAP: Triangle Trade Routes - more maps available above.
MAP: West African Slave Trade
Slave/Free Maps - currently unavailable
TIMELINE: African Slave Trade & European Imperialism - more timelines available in above.
Subject: Indentured Servants - From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery
The Growth of Slavery in North America
The Economics of Slavery
African Slave Trade
The Beginnings of the European Slave Trade
New World Exploration and English Ambition
The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
European Voyages of Exploration: The Sugar & Slave Trades
The Last Slave Ships
Colonial Period Slavery
Colonial African Americans
Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Slavery During the Colonial Period
Slavery and the Law in Virginia
Transcriptions of Virginia Gazette Runaway Slave Ads
A Struggle from the Start: African American Journey to Freedom
Don't Wanna Slave No More: Introduction to Colonial African-American Life
From Africa to America
Africans in America
Africans in America: 1450-1750 - 1750-1805 - 1791-1831 - 1831-1865
African American Journey
Charting the African American Journey
The Slave Trade
The UNESCO Triangular Slave Trade Project (TST)
Black Experience in America: The Human Market - Slavery as Capitalism (For an excellent E-text of the history of Africans in America to the present day, check out Coombs: Black EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA)
Welcome to African American History!
Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery
Beyond Face Value
Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade
Slavery and Exclusion Laws in Oregon Territory
Extension of Slavery
From Slavery to Freedom
Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-184
Slave Ships of Eighteenth Century France 1748-1756, 1763-1792
MIDDLE PASSAGE
Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1795-1811
Virginia Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1727-1769
Kunta Kinte History
Slave Codes of the State of Georgia, 1848
Slave Codes
The Henrietta Marie, an English merchant slave ship
USA:(4)Cotton promotes slavery
Agriculture an Important Part of Black History
A SHORT HISTORY OF ALABAMA AGRICULTURE, 1820-1945
Influences of British Imperialist Economic Fortunes on Slavery
Economics of the Antebellum Period
Understanding the Colonial Period Through Economic Theory
UNESCO Slave Route Project - Sugar and Slavery
Slaves of Latta Plantation
Slavery in the Capitol (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
African-American Heritage in the Delta - Lower Mississippi Delta Region
DPLS Archive: Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries
Amistad Trial Home Page
THE AMISTAD, 40 U.S. 518 (1841)
Teaching With Documents: The Amistad Case
Exploring Amistad
Welcome to Amistad America
Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia
Africa Reparations Movement Information Sheets
Yes, there was slavery in New York City!
Colonization; Southern Colonies, slavery
Chronicling Black Lives in Colonial New England
The Peculiar Institution of American Slavery
The Museum of African Slavery
Pre-Civil War Era Art About African-Americans
The Slaver "Fredensborg"
UNESCO Slave Route Project - Welcome
UNESCO Slave Route Project - Links and resources for school projects
UNESCO Slave Route Project - African Slave Trade
The Fugitive Slave Act
Political Compromises: Fugitive Slave Laws
Description of a Slave Auction
Slave Narrative: "I Saw a Slave Ship" by Gustavus Vassa, 1791
Free at Last
Scartoons Introduction
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Dred Scott: America in 1857
Dred Scott: Case Background
Dred Scott: In the Federal Judicial System
Dred Scott: The Supreme Court's Decision
Dred Scott: Republican Reactions
Dred Scott: Democratic Reaction
Dred Scott: Impact of Dred Scott
Dred Scott | Washington University in St. Louis
Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era
THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
NARA | ALIC | Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade
Race, Ethnicity and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of Justice
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Demographic Simulation
More info on Demographic Simulation
Transatlantic Traffic
The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
Intercultural Dialogue: The Slave Route
UNESCO - Slave Trade Archives Project
RELIGION & SLAVERY
TIMELINE: Slavery and Religion in America: 1440-1866
Noah’s Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery
Slavery and the Civil War as Viewed by the Churches of God
Biblical Defenses of Segregation
The theology of slavery
Why does the Bible seem to tolerate the institution of slavery?
The Slavery Question and Civil War, 1844–1865
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Bible View of Slavery by Rabbi M. J. Raphall, 1861
George Bourne, 1780-1845. A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument
Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community
African-American Religion in the Nineteenth Century
Harriet Tubman
ABOLITION
HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
MUSIC & LITERATURE
Heart and Souls: Celebration of African American Music
African American Spirituals
The Underground Railroad Site - Music
"Denoting Difference: The Writing of the Slave Spirituals"
"Negro Spirituals"
Georgia Sea Island Singers - St. Simons Island Gullah African American Music
African American Literature: Voices of Slavery and Freedom - Earliest Works and Literary Legacy of Slavery - More African American Literature is available on my African Americans page.
White guy, Joel Chandler Harris totally missed the point when he published the Uncle Remus stories. When published in the late 19th century, the result was pure racism.
PAL: Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
Selected Text Page-Uncle Remus
The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
More info on Racism Reflected in the Arts can be found on my Reconstruction and the Lost Cause page.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Shaw Memorial (detail)
AFRICAN
AMERICAN SOLDIERS & THE CIVIL WAR
AFTER
THE WAR - RECONSTRUCTION & BEYOND
The First Years of Freedom, 1865-1945
Juneteenth - June 19, 1865: the date word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas(two years late!)
After the Civil War: State of Blacks
LAWS DESIGNED TO DISARM SLAVES, FREEDMEN, AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS
After the Civil War: Plessy v. Ferguson
The Political Graveyard: Politicians Born in Slavery
North By South/Great Migrations Page
Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
For much more, check out my Reconstruction page.
MISC. SITE
History
of African-American Cemeteries
Books On Slavery |
USA African-American History
FOR MORE ON THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, VISIT MY African Americans PAGE!
RETURN TO THE MAIN CIVIL WAR PAGE.
BACK TO:
HOME / TABLE OF CONTENTS
