Abraham Lincoln Correspondence
Provides correspondence between Lincoln and friends and associates from Lincoln's Springfield days, well-known political figures and reformers, and local people and organizations writing to their pres...   [more]
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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The 351 titles in the collection include sermons on racial pride and political activism; annual reports of charitable, educational, and political organizations; and college catalogs and graduation ora...   [more]
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American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
Also Known as: American Slavery
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Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. T...   [more]

Boston African Americana
Coordinated by the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston African Americana Project gathers visual and textual materials held by the Athenaeum, the Bostonian Society, Historic New England, and the Massachusetts...   [more]
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Crisis of the Union
Also Known as: The Crisis of the Union
This collection is comprised of pamphlets, books, broadsides, cartoons, clippings, paintings, maps, and other print memorabilia about America from circa 1830 to 1880. Items are drawn primarily from t...   [more]
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Documenting the American South
"Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century."...   [more]
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Ecclesiastical Sources in Slave Societies
Digital archive of at-risk ecclesiastical sources for Africans and persons of African descent in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean...   [more]
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Free People of Color in Louisiana
Digitized collections include entire collections of papers from families or individuals that were free people of color. Many of these extend, chronologically, beyond the end of slavery. Sources draw...   [more]
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From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
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Manuscripts Relating to Slavery: New-York Historical Society
The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. T...   [more]
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Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Numbering over 10,000 titles, May's pamphlets and leaflets document the anti-slavery struggle at the local, regional, and national levels. Much of the May Anti-Slavery Collection was considered epheme...   [more]
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu
From the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali, a collection of 19th century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu. The materials, in Arabic, provide document...   [more]
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Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Contains over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The docu...   [more]
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State Slavery Statutes, 1789-1865
Includes over 7000 state statues relating to slavery...   [more]

The Abolition of the Slave Trade
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The Antislavery Literature Project
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