Libraries : Government Resources

Black Americans/African Americans: Slavery

• Abolition Exhibit (Library of Congress)
• Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, An (Avalon Project)
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (University of Virginia)
• Amistad
• Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L.R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life,
  and Four Years of His Ministerial Life (Documenting the American South,
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries)
• Brown, John
• Confederate States of America Veto Message February 28, 1861.
  Concerning Slave Trade (Avalon Project)
• Documents on Slavery (Avalon Project)
• Douglass, Frederick
• Dred Scott Decision
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a Slave for Forty-Three Years, 1862
  by thomas H. Jones (Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina
  at Chapel Hill)
• From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black
  Women's History in the Civil War Era (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition (Yale
  Center for International and Area Studies)
• If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong, From Abraham Lincoln Letter to A.G.
  Hodges (Library of Congress)
• Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than
  Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called
  Christian States of North America, Lewis Garrard Clarke, 1845 (North American
  Slave Narratives, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at
  Chapel Hill)
• On Bicentennial of Slave Trade's End, UN Officials Urge Halt to Modern-day Exploitation,
  March 27, 2007 (UN News Centre)
• Slave Trade Archives (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
• Slavery and the Admission of California into the Union (The Virtual Museum of the City
  of San Francisco)
• Slavery in New York (New York Historical Society)
• Slavery Resource Guide (Library of Congress)
• Slaves and the Courts (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Sojourner Truth
• Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery (Avalon Project)
• Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (U.S. National Archives
  and Records Administration )
• Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
  GPO Access)
• Underground Railroad
• Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories (American Memory,
  Library of Congress)
• Yale, Slavery and Abolition: Yale University and Its Legacy (Yale University)

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