CCD HISTORY 201 - History of United States 1
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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 - 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.