SlaveryResources

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 * An extensive bibliography on slavery is available at the Digital History website:**

America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses []
 * Africans in America: Judgment Day. //PBS Online.//**

Your guide to African American history and culture. From Sojourner Truth to Jacob Lawrence, discover the courage and talent that shaped the African American experience. []
 * African American World. //PBS.// **

There are many resources available at the Slavery Site. The image collections are especially recommended. []
 * The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in America**

Many Southern notes did not feature images of slavery; this exhibit focuses on the ones that did. This collection features notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Eras. Notes were issued by various entities, including the Confederate government, state governments, merchants, and railroad companies. []
 * Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency. //Louisiana// //State University////.// **

This two-part lesson plan draws on letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones still in bondage, singling out a few among the many slave experiences to offer students a glimpse into slavery and its effects on African American family life. []
 * Families in Bondage. //EDSITEment. National Endowment for the Humanities//. **

The Geography of Slavery project contains more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants, drawn from newspapers in Virginia and Maryland, covering the years from 1736 through 1803. May be used along with **“Using Runaway Slave Advertisements to Teach Historical Thinking”** by Robert Cassanello. Cassanello guides students to examine a number of runaway slave advertisements and provides questions and observations to stimulate students’ critical thinking and observations. [] []
 * The Geography of Slavery in Virginia: Slave Advertisements. //University// //of Virginia////.// **

“Abolitionism in America” documents our country’s intellectual, moral, and political struggle to achieve freedom for all Americans. Featuring rare books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other materials from Cornell’s pre-eminent anti-slavery and Civil War collections, the exhibition explores the complex history of slavery, resistance, and abolition from the 1700s through 1865. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view some of Cornell Library’s greatest treasures This website and a traveling version of the exhibition //Lest We Forget// have been created to mark the United Nations General Assembly’s resolution proclaiming 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition. []
 * “I will be heard!” Abolitionism in America. //Cornell// //University// //Library.// **
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 * Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery. //The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library.// **

"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920. []
 * North American Slave Narratives. //Documenting the American South. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. // **

Slavery ad the Making of America is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings is a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. By focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives. []
 * Slavery and the Making of America. //PBS.// **

By focusing on enslaved individuals, the companion website for the television series //Slavery in// America presents a new and vivid look at the institution of American slavery. [|www.slaveryinamerica.org]
 * Slavery in America. //PBS.// **

In addition to the CD provided at this seminar, you can find music recorded, some by former slaves, in teh John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip website at the Library of Congress. They have 131 recordings of spirituals alone! []
 * Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip**

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. A variable (Source) cites the records for each voyage in the database. Other variables enable users to search for information about a particular voyage or group of voyages. The website provides full interactive capability to analyze the data and report results in the form of statistical tables, graphs, maps, or on a timeline. [] The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. [] []
 * Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. //Emory// //University////.// **
 * Voices from the Days of Slavery. //Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.// **

The cases of Henry Garnett and Moses Honner bookend the 1850s, a decade of intensifying political crisis that was deeply connected to the institution of slavery. In both court actions, the defendants were charged with being "fugitives from labor," but, despite numerous similarities, the outcomes of the cases were exactly opposite. []
 * Teaching with Documents: Fugitive from Labor Cases: Henry Garnett (1850) and Moses Honner (1860). //National Archives and Record Administration.// **