Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
An essential resource for the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning over five centuries.
Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world, covering an extensive time period from 1490. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
Highlights
- African forts and the Gold Coast
- Brazil
- Education and social justice
- The Day Law in Kentucky
- Family Papers, Correspondence, Bills and Plantation Journals from the Louisianna State University
- Local court records relating to slavery for both Georgia and North Carolina
- Resistance and Revolts
- Cases of enslaved people decided in the Supreme Courts of Georgia and North Carolina
- Testimony of enslaved people
- Slavery in the Early Americas
- Songs that recall the Transatlantic Slave Experience
- Urban Slavery in New York and Philadelphia
- The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
- Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
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Period covered
1490 - 2007
Source archives
- Anti-Slavery International
- Berea College
- The British Library
- Buxton National Historic Site, Ontario
- Duke University
- Free the Slaves
- Georgia Archives
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
- Louisiana State University
- Mariners Museum, Virginia
- Merseyside Maritime Museum
- North Carolina State Archives
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL
- The National Archives, UK
- University of New Orleans
- Wilberforce House, Hull
- Slavery and the Early Americas
- African coast
- The Middle Passage
- Slavery and agriculture
- Urban and domestic slavery
- Resistance and revolts
- Underground Railroad
- The abolition movement and the slavery debate
- Legislation: enactment and enforcement
- Freed slaves, freedmen and free black settlements
- Education
- Slavery and the Islamic world
- Varieties of slave experience
- The legacy of slavery and slavery today
- Original manuscripts
- Pamphlets
- Books
- Paintings
- Maps
- Images
- Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University
- Yacine Daddi Addoun, York University
- Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University
- Lee Arnold, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Kevin Bales, Free the Slaves
- Joyce Broussard, California State University, Northridge
- Thomas Buchanan, University of Adelaide
- Jacqueline Burnside, Berea College
- Alex Byrd, Rice University
- Rina Cáceres, University of Costa Rica
- Mariza de Carvalho Soares, Univ. Federal Fluminense
- José Curto, York University
- Patience Essah, Auburn University
- Sylvia Frey, Tulane University
- Alan Gallay, Ohio State University
- Guy Grannum, The National Archives
- Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
- Rick Halpern, University of Toronto
- Leslie Harris, Emory University
- Joseph Inikori, University of Rochester
- David Konig, Washington University in St. Louis
- Paul Lovejoy, York University
- Mary Ann Mahony, Central Connecticut State University
- Susan O’Donovan, Harvard University
- Olatunji Ojo, Brock University
- Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Cape Coast University, Ghana
- Dr Helen Paul, University of Southampton
- Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Bryan Prince, Buxton National Historic Site
- David Richardson, University of Hull
- Richard Sears , Berea College
- Verene Shepherd, University of the West Indies
- Marika Sherwood, University of London
- Brenda Square, Amistad Research Center
- African Studies
- Communities, Peoples and Nations
- Ethnic and Indigenous Studies
- North American Studies
- War and Conflict
- High quality images of many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images not available elsewhere. Much of the illustrative content is provided in full colour
- A powerful portal with links to other significant online sources approved by leading scholars. These international sites are a very important aspect of this resource
- A series of contextual essays by leading authorities from around the world. Each essay has links directly to the primary sources it discusses
- Thematic and Court Record tutorials enabling students and teachers multiple pathways into the primary sources
Reviews
Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers
- Author: B.D. Singleton, California State University
- Publisher: CHOICE
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