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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.
This digital library is drawn from the vast collections of the Library of Congress. To find sources for your brief, search "From Slavery to Freedom" and "Slaves and the Courts".
APS Online includes digital images of American magazines and journals dating from 1741 to 1900. The digitized images allow researchers to see the original typography, drawings, graphics, etc., as originally published.
DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. Includes many primary sources and other public domain materials.
Browse DocSouth using the Library of Congress's Subject Headings. Refer to the 'Subject Headings & Keywords' box below to learn more about useful subject headings for your paper.
This collection of women's diaries and correspondence spans more than 300 years and includes many references to slavery. Unfortunately, the entries are not subject indexed, so you'll need to read the context in which your keywords appear in order to learn whether a source is useful or not.
It's easy to locate primary sources in this database. Just search using your keywords then select the facet labeled "Primary Sources". Note: this database only allows one concurrent user.
Our subscription includes: The U.S. Congressional Serial Set and the Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection. The US Serial Set is a collection of primary source material on the people, issues and events of American history and politics. It contains the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, from the 15th Congress through the 103rd Congress.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive provides access to digitize primary sources related to the debates over slavery and abolition from 1490 to 1896. The database contains 1.5 million pages, including more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections.
"The Texas Slavery Project examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850." Primary sources are grouped into their own category; click the link in the upper-right to browse by kind (e.g., laws, personal correspondence, etc.)