Slavery in the U. S. Books The YSHS/McKinney School Library Media Center has over 50 books with information on slavery in the U. S. Below is a list of some of the titles: Black Cargoes: a History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865 by Daniel Pratt Mannix. The Black Man in America, 1619-1790 by Florence and J. B. Jackson. The Black Man in America, 1791-1861 by Florence and J. B. Jackson. The Black Man in America, 1861-77 by Florence and J. B. Jackson. Ebony Pictorial History of Black America by the editors of Ebony. The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery by Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. A History of the African American People: the History, Traditions & Culture of African Americans by James O. Horton & Lois E. Horton, ed. An Illustrated History of Black Americans by John Hope Franklin. Negro Americans in the Civil War; From Slavery to Citizenship by Charles H. Wesley and Patricia W. Romero. INFOhio Resources INFOhio Resources American National Biography American National Biography has over 100 biographies on famous abolitionists. Search "last name, first name" or "abolitionists" in the Realm of Renown. Annals of American History Search for primary documents on slavery. There are over 100 letters, articles, poems, speeches, bills, newspaper articles and diaries that deal with slavery. SIRS Discoverer SIRS Discoverer has many good articles on slavery. Do a subject search for "slavery". Be sure to look at SIRS websites on slavery. Some are linked below, but others are not on this page. EBSCOhost EBSCOhost has a number of articles on slavery. You can search for "slavery". Below are a samples of the articles. Cast in Bondage. By: Dawson, Victoria. Smithsonian, Feb2003, Vol. 33 Issue 11, p20, 2p, 1c, 1bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1160; (AN 8979852) The A.M.E. Church and Richard Allen. By: Swann-Wright, Dianne. Footsteps, Jan/Feb2004, Vol. 6 Issue 1, p10, 4p, 4c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1040; (AN 11834553) The Christiana Tragedy. By: Kashatus, William C.; Huntington, Tom. American History, Oct2002, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p48, 7p, 1c, 7bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1140; (AN 7181885) FREEDOM TRAIN. By: Di Silvestro, Roger; Mock, Shirley Boteler. Americas, Nov/Dec2000, Vol. 52 Issue 6, p22, 10p, 1 map, 5c, 5bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 1250; (AN 3768090) `All we want is make us free!" By: Jones, Howard. American History, Jan/Feb98, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p22, 8p, 12c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1290; (AN 9712114153) Underground Railroad. By: Task, Judy. Monkeyshines on America, Mar97 Pennsylvania Issue, Part 1, p30, 1p; Reading Level (Lexile): 890; (AN 3652487) Riding the Underground Railroad. By: Peterson, Robert W.. Boys' Life, Feb93, Vol. 83 Issue 2, p30, 4p, 1 chart, 2c; Reading Level (Lexile): 740; (AN 9302250210) Websites There are many good websites that deal with slavery in the United States. Here are some recommended sites. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Sponsored by University of Virginia Library This site contains hundreds of images dealing with slavery throughout the world, including the U. S. The collection illustrates the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery Pre-Civil War African-American Slavery Sponsored by Library of Congress (LOC) This site contains interviews with former slaves and slaveholders. You can view photographs depicting slavery in the United States. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/expref/slavery/slavery.html Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom Sponsored by James Madison University This site contains the autobiography of a former slave, Louis Hughes. http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives/era/african/life/hughes/hughes.htm Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery Sponsored by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library This site includes an online exhibit that presents an overview of the transatlantic slave trade and slaves in America. There are illustrated essays on the history of the slave trade, the struggle against slavery and its abolition, family life, religion, literacy and education, and culture. http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/english/site/flash.html From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 Sponsored by the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. This site has a collection of about four hundred pamphlets on slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. Among the authors are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/ Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. This site contains 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles. It is a searchable site http://www.yale.edu/glc/ Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Sponsored by the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. This site has a collection of over 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression. It was originally published as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves (1941). Search by keyword or browse the narratives and photographs. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories Sponsored by the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. This site contains audio interviews of over twenty former slaves. They discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Includes brief biographies, photographs, and songs. Searchable and browsable. This site loads very slowly. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/ American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology Sponsored by the University of Virginia. This site has a collection of interviews with former slaves who discuss their lives before and after freedom. The narratives are verbatim transcripts of the interview transcripts collected by writers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. The site features photos and sound clips from one of the original interviews. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html Africans in America Sponsored by PBS . This site is the companion site to the PBS series of the same name. It contains a searchable history of slavery in the United States, and featuring images, historical documents, biographies, and contemporary and modern commentaries. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html The Underground Railroad Sponsored by National Geographic Online . This site explores the system that helped escaped slaves to reach freedom safely. The site includes The Journey, an interactive account of a runaway slave's trip; Routes to Freedom, a map of escape routes; Time Line, which covers slavery in the New World from 1501 to the 1865 abolition of slavery in the US; and Faces of Freedom, a section containing portraits and short descriptions of abolitionists and civil rights leaders. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html New York Public Library Digital Collection Sponsored by New York Public Library. This site provides digital images of book illustrations, photographs, posters, and other documents. Search for "slavery" in the search bar. http://www.nypl.org/digital/index.htm Secret Routes to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Experience Sponsored by the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). This site is an online exhibit on the Underground Railroad, the history of slavery in the United States, and slavery today. The "Routes" section features descriptions of the vast network of routes the slaves took to freedom. "Stories" focuses on the institution of slavery and the treatment of the slaves. http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/undergroundrailroadexperience/ Abolitionism in America Sponsored by Cornell University, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections. This is a well-organized, content-rich site with a wide range of authoritative information. It includes profiles of prominent abolitionists, slave narratives, background on the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, critical resources on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and much more. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/ African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections Sponsored by The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections Library, Duke University. This site contains archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women, including the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860 Sponsored by the Library of Congress. This site is a searchable collection which contains over a hundred items documenting legal cases concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. Materials include accounts from defendants and plaintiffs as well as those of abolitionists, presidents, politicians, slave owners, fugitive and free territory slaves, lawyers and judges, and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ In Motion: the African American Migration Experience Sponsored by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation. You will probably use the first four sections. This site has more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. In addition, each migration has a bibliography (references) and a gateway of related Web sites. http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm A House Divided Sponsored by the University of Houston This site explores the institution of slavery, the fierce sectionalism of free and slave economies in the rapidly expanding country, and the destructive power of the Civil War. You can read articles about the causes and effects of the Civil War and view artifacts from the Civil War era. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ahd/exhibit_menu.html