Important Africana Studies E-Books

A Century of Lawmaking: U.S Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The Library of Congress houses one of the most complete collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original format. In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholar...   [more]
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African-American Sheet Music
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An Era of Progress and Promise
An Era of Progress and Promise is a book compiled by W.N. Hartshorn of Clifton, Massachusetts that celebrates the "religious, moral, and educational development of the American Negro since his emancip...   [more]
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Cambridge History of African American Literature
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Civil Rights FBI Case Files
FBI case files of events and groups involved in cases of racial violence. Includes files for: Ku Klux Klan, Louis Allen, Benjamin Brown, Henry Dee and Charlie Moore, Willie Edwards, Jr., Jimmie Lee ...   [more]
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Critical Insights: Gwendolyn Brooks
Also Known as: Critical Insights , Gwendolyn Brooks
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Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Also Known as: Critical Insights , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Critical Insights: James Baldwin
Also Known as: Critical Insights , James Baldwin
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Critical Insights: Toni Morrison
Also Known as: Critical Insights , Toni Morrison
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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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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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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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Martin Luther King Archive
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Proquest One Literature (formerly Literature Online - LION)
Also Known as: LION
LION is a searchable, full-text collection of over 250,000 works in English and American Literature. Separate databases are English Poetry (1100-1900), American Poetry (1600-1900), African-American ...   [more]
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Russell Sage Foundation e-books (Project MUSE)
Searchable fulltext for a selection of Russell Sage Foundation books....   [more]
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SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge social sciences digital library is intended for students, researchers, and faculty. The SAGe Knowledge platform hosts 2,700 titles and includes scholarly monographs, reference works, ha...   [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]

State Slavery Statutes, 1789-1865
Includes over 7000 state statues relating to slavery...   [more]

The African American Electorate: A Statistical History
Brings together all of the extant, fugitive, and recently discovered registration data on African American voters from Colonial America to the present. This pioneering work also traces the history of ...   [more]

University of Michigan Press ebooks collection
Fulltext page images for University of Michigan Press. Starting with 2019-imprint titles plus complimentary access to the press's ebooks backfile....   [more]

Related Africana Studies E-Books

Africana Digitization Project
Searchable facsimiles of European accounts of Africa, ca. 1526-1680, in scholarly editions. Produced by University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries....   [more]
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American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress Administration from 1936-1940. The collection inclu...   [more]
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American Memory
"Historical Collections for the National Digital Library." A project of the Library of Congress....   [more]
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American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations...   [more]
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American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
Also Known as: American Slavery
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Digital Library of the Caribbean
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean c...   [more]
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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