Online exhibits, digitized primary-source collections and archival materials documenting African-American history, civil-rights movements and related cultural themes.
Over 800 speeches by Black abolitionists and around 1,000 newspaper editorials from the antebellum period, documenting African-American activism in the fight to end slavery in the United States.
First-person interviews with formerly enslaved Americans gathered in 17 states, enriched by around 500 photographs, and offering rare firsthand accounts of life under slavery.
Data, documents, and digital collections that trace the lives, movements, and networks of enslaved people across the Atlantic world from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
More than 4,000 digitized runaway and captured slave and indentured servant ads from Virginia and Maryland newspapers, with full transcripts, images, and maps and timelines covering 1736 to 1803.
Transcribed, searchable newspaper editorials from the 1850s through the Civil War era, enabling comparison of regional perspectives on slavery, secession, and national politics.
A digital collection of nineteenth-century books and pamphlets from Dickinson College and Millersville University that presents first-person narratives, legal records, sermons, and anti-slavery tracts with searchable transcriptions.
All known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject. NOTE: The EMU Library does NOT subscribe to the HeinOnline collection materials listed under the tab Scholarly Articles & Other Documents.
Documenting autobiographical narratives and related works of enslaved and self-emancipated people from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries.
A digital collection of nineteenth-century books and pamphlets from Dickinson College and Millersville University that presents first-person narratives, legal records, sermons, and anti-slavery tracts with searchable transcriptions.
Includes 105 digitized books and manuscripts totaling about 8,700 pages that document legal cases, statutes, and debates about slavery in the United States and Great Britain.
Provides access to more than 700,000 digitized records from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries documenting Africans and their descendants across the Atlantic world.
A digital history site on the Republic of Texas (1837–1845) that visualizes the spread of slavery with interactive maps and a searchable database built from surviving tax records.
A research portal with primary datasets on the slave trade across the Atlantic and within the Americas, including more than 36,000 documented voyages, plus maps, visualizations, and tools to explore routes, ships, and people.
A multimedia archive of primary sources on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel and its impact, including editions of the text, contemporary reviews, songs, plays, films, illustrations, and material culture.
Search for legal, estate, court, and other historical records that reflect the lives of free and enslaved African Americans in Virginia, especially from the colonial through antebellum period.
Firsthand narratives and interviews with formerly enslaved people recorded between 1932 and 1975, preserving their memories of slavery and its aftermath.
Find primary sources on slavery, abolition, and resistance across Yale libraries and galleries, with options to browse by repository or search by topic.
Includes historical photographs and news articles from Ann Arbor District Library's Community Collections on topics such as community centers, education, housing, employment, entrepreneurship, and faith.
More than 240 books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, films, and recordings that trace the African American experience from slavery through the twentieth century.
A portal to federal records, images, and documents chronicling the African American experience in the United States, including slavery, migration, military service, civil rights, and social change.
An archive of over 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and 67 maps documenting thirteen major migration movements of people of African descent and the shaping of African-American history in the U.S. and the Western Hemisphere.
Over 240 digitized books, manuscripts, maps, images, music scores, films, and recordings that chart the African American experience and the long struggle for citizenship from the early national era through the twentieth century.
The digital archive of the television program American Black Journal presents a searchable collection of interviews, roundtable discussions, field-produced segments, and other audiovisual materials featuring African American perspectives on politics, culture, and community life in Detroit and beyond, dating back to 1968.
Over 1,200 oral-history interviews, photographs, and transcripts capturing African American life in the U.S. South during the segregation era (c. 1890–1950s).
Over 800 speeches by Black abolitionists and around 1,000 newspaper editorials from the antebellum period, documenting African-American activism in the fight to end slavery in the United States.
Digitized newspapers, magazines, and journals that document Black Power, the Black Arts Movement, Black Nationalism, Separatism, and Black Feminism in the decades after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Digitized primary sources curated by time periods: Slavery and Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860); Civil War and Reconstruction Era (1861-1877); Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932); New Deal and World War II (1933-1945); Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975); Contemporary Era (1976-2000s).
Audio interviews from 1972–1974 with African American pioneers and their descendants across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana discussing jobs, social life, church activity, and politics in the Pacific Northwest.
Interactive timelines, primary-source documents, and multimedia resources that explore the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision ending school segregation and its legacy in education, law, and civil rights.
Hundreds of digitized documents, including minutes, letters, speeches, and images that document the nineteenth-century organizing efforts of free and fugitive Black Americans through the Colored Conventions Movement from 1830 to 1890.
Over 40,000 pages of documents, letters, diaries, and photographs that record the efforts of civil rights activists who worked to challenge segregation and expand voting rights in Mississippi.
Links to digitized African American newspapers you can read online, grouped by era from Antebellum and the Civil War through Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, with notes on titles and coverage.
Offers introductions, sample documents, photo and sound archives, and publication information that document Marcus Garvey, the UNIA, and the broader Garvey movement.
Presents approximately 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs spanning 1866 to 2006 that document Parks’ private life and public civil rights activism, with the strongest coverage from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Curated, multimedia explorations of Black history and the African diaspora featuring digitized items, essays, videos, and related resources from New York Public Library collections.
