CCD   HISTORY 201 - History of United States 1




      U. S. History Slavery

 

 

DPLS Archive: Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries (Wisconsin)
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
This site explores the slave ships and the slave trade that carried thousands of Africans to the Americas.

Excerpts from Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
The seventeenth- through nineteenth-century accounts of slavery housed in this site speak volumes about the many impacts of slavery.

"Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/index.htm
Slave narratives are some of the more interesting primary sources about slavery.

Exploring Amistad
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/learn/lu-amistad.htm
Mystic Seaport runs this site, which includes extensive collections of historical resources relating to the revolt and subsequent trial of enslaved Africans.

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This PBS site contains images and documents recounting slavery in America.

Amistad Trials (1839-1840)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMISTD.HTM
Images, chronology, court and official documents comprise this site by Dr. Doug Linder at University of Missouri—Kansas City Law School.

Slave Narratives
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html
This site presents the telling narratives of several slaves, housed at the Documents of the American South collection 
and the University of North Carolina.

The Settlement of African Americans in Liberia
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.htmlThis site contains images and text relating to the colonization movement to return African Americans to Africa.

Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/under.htm
Best and most extensive National Park Service site about the Underground Railroad, with special reference to the lower Mississippi Valley.

African American Women Writers
Library of works written by African American women during the nineteenth century. Browse poetry, fiction, and biography by title and author.

African-American Women - On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections Special Collections Library, Duke University 
Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story Elizabeth Johnson Harris was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1867 to
to parents who had been slaves.

The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection 
presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years
from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900. 
Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, 
Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.

The Getting Word Oral History Project at Monticello 
locates and records the oral histories of the descendants of Monticello's enslaved
African-American community. This rich treasurehouse of memories
over seven generations helps to expand our understanding of life at
Monticello two hundred years ago. Oral interviews are supplemented
with research in public records.

Long Road to Justice For more than three hundred years, African Americans have sought racial justice in the Massachusetts courts.

 

 

 


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