Related Links
African-American Resources on Slavery
| African American Resources from UVA Documents and images from manuscripts held by the University's rare book room. The topic is slavery. |
| American Slave Narratives - An Online Anthology.
This site has an anthology of slave narratives taken from the mid-1930's as part of the WPA's program of supporting researchers. This site has links to bibliographies on the subject and to additional Internet sources of slave narratives. These slave narratives are available in a printed format as The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. This is available in Carrier Library in 41 volumes @ E 444 A45. |
| The Atlantic Slave and Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record A fascinating collection of over 800 images on the slave trade and slave life. The site comes from the University of Virginia |
| Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Ca 2,300 slave narratives are available at this site. Search engines are available. Sponsored by the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. |
| Chronology of the History of Slavery and Racism
Coverage of this chronology is 1619-1990's. The site has brief information, by date, with frequent links to newspaper articles, book excerpts, legislation, legal decisions, etc. |
| Excerpts from Slave Narratives
Brief excerpts of slave narratives are available at this web page. A notation on each narrative lists the published source of the full narrative. |
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