Collection of black abolitionist speeches and editorials from the 1820s to the Civil War.

A collection of approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

Collection of digitised documents, including letters, warrants, bills of sale and anti-slavery material.

A digitised collection of pamphlets and books pertaining to slavery and antislavery in New England, 1725-1911. Includes speeches, sermons, proceedings and other publications of organisations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society and the American Colonization Society, and a small number of pro-slavery tracts.

Over 6000 letters and other documents dating from 1724 to 1897, directly relating to the social, economic, civil, and legal status of enslaved Negroes and Free People of Color in Louisiana and especially in New Orleans. The documents are written in French, Spanish, and English.

Compiles various independent online collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South (particularly North Carolina), and makes them searchable through a single interface. Includes detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of colour.

Allows you to discover, connect, and visualise 600,000 (and growing) enslaved people records and over 5 million data points.

Digitised version of the rare anti-slavery newspaper, from Cornell University's collection.

Collection of pamphlets from the Library of Congress, written by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonisation, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.

Includes an Online Encyclopaedia of British Slave-ownership, containing information about (1) every slave-owner in the British Caribbean, Mauritius or the Cape at the moment of abolition in 1833; (2) all the estates identified in the British Caribbean in the period 1763-1833; and (3) all the slave-owners, attorneys, mortgagees and legatees identified to date for the estates between 1763 and 1833. Entries for individuals include information about their activities, affiliations and legacies, with a particular emphasis on the "absentee" owners based in Britain.

Large digitised collection of anti-slavery and abolitionist materials.

Data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World, including the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves.

Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves held by the Library of Congress.

A visual record of the African slave trade and slave life in the Early African Diaspora.

Collection of books and manuscripts from the Library of Congress. Includes trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, letters, and other works of historical importance.

Records from the Town Clerk’s Office in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, dating back to the late seventeenth century and chronicling the social relations and material culture of this early American town. Moreover, they document the existence of enslaved people. Traces of these individuals remain in probate records, where human beings were assigned value and treated as property. In 2018, Salve Regina University Archives and Special Collections in Newport began the Documenting Slavery Project to digitize, describe, and publish these town records. They serve as evidence of how slavery was conceived of, recorded, and carried out in colonial Rhode Island.

Offers a window into the role slavery played in the development of Texas in the years before the region became part of the United States. Includes interactive maps, population database search engine and digitised original documents.

Audio recordings from the Library of Congress, featuring 23 former slaves discussing how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine US states.

Offers a unique opportunity to retrace the journey of a single slave ship, from its initial preparation through the long months on the African coast, to the auctioning of surviving captives on the West Indian island of Antigua. Accompanying documents include manifestos, letters and contracts.

Contains information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages which forcibly transported over 10 million Africans to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

John Jacob Omenhausser was a Confederate soldier imprisoned at the Union camp at Pt. Lookout, Maryland from June 1864 to July 1865. This sketchbook documents prison life in vibrant watercolour drawings.

This collection contains manuscripts, documents, and pamphlets dating from the 1700s to circa 1869, including documents from the Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Collection

A digital archive of sources relating to the American Civil War, focusing on the experiences of two opposing communities.

Publications, video, oral histories, and more documenting the Civil Rights Movement.

Original photographs documenting the involvement of Queens College students and other Northerners in the Civil Rights Movement of the early to mid 1960s, including Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Virginia Student Help Project, the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project, and the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR).

Filmed oral history interviews of people involved in the Civil Rights Movement, from the Library of Congress collection.