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African American Resources

A selective guide to resources about African American History.

A selected list of primary sources about slavery and abolitionist

Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio Interviews
This website has recorded interviews of former slaves.
North American Slave Narratives
a collection of primary documents from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries about slavery

I Was Born a Slave (1770-1849) Volume 1
Call Number: **ebook**

ISBN: 9781556523311

Publication Date: 1999
I Was Born a Slave (1849-1866) Volume 2
Call Number: **ebook**

ISBN: 9781613742068

Publication Date: 1999

Digital Library On American Slavery
This resource contains links to the following databases: Race and Slavery Petitions Project, NC Runaway Slave Advertisements, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Slave Deeds of North Carolina, and Slavery Era Insurance Registries.
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War
Photographs of African Americans During the Civil War
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867
A collection of primary documents
A Map of American Slavery
A map that shows the 1860 population of slaves in the Southern United States.
Black Abolitionist Archive
This website was created by the UDM Libraries Instructional Design Studio

Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Call Number: 380.144 D737a

ISBN: 0940450798

Publication Date: 1996

A selected list of secondary sources about slavery and abolitionist

Arguing about Slavery: the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller
Call Number: 973.5 M652a

ISBN: 0394569229
Slavery in America: from Colonial Times to the Civil War by Dorothy Schneider & Carl J. Schneider
Call Number: Reference 973.0496 S358s

ISBN: 0816038635
Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America by Thomas G. Mitchell
Call Number: 973.7114 M695a

ISBN: 0275991687

Publication Date: 2007
Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776 by Betty Wood
Call Number: 306.36209 W873s

ISBN: 0742544184
The Underground Railroad: an Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: Reference 973.7115 S673u

ISBN: 0765680939
John Brown, Abolitionist: the Man who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds
Call Number: 973.7116092 R333j

ISBN: 0375726152

Publication Date: 2005
In Search of the Promised Land: a Black Family and the Old South by John Hope Franklin & Loren Schweninger
Call Number: **ebook**

ISBN: 0195160878

Publication Date: 2006
Bound for Canaan by Fergus M. Bordewich
Call Number: 973.7115 B644b

ISBN: 0060524308

Publication Date: 2005

Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries
An online exhibit about African Americans that served as medical providers during the United States Civil War.

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