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African-American & Slavery Links

African-American Prospectives: Read selections from African American authors dating back to the early nineteenth century. This site is sponsored by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.
Africans in America: Based on the PBS series that sketches out African-American slavery from 1450-1865, this site has narratives, resources, and teaching guides.
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts: This online guide presents the information derived from a survey of the resources in Virginia repositories, describing the principal collections of interest to scholars concerned with the African-American experience.
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology: This site focuses on interviews by former slaves conducted by the Works Progress Administration. Sponsored by the University of Virginia.
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism: This site provides a timeline of major events and links for more information. It is sponsored by the historic Holt House in Washington D.C.
Documenting the American South: This site has collections of sources on Southern history from colonial times to the present, including literature, slave narratives, and church life.
DPLS On-Line Data Archive: Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Raw data and documentation on the slave trade. Sponsored by the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Documents on Slavery from the Avalon Project: There are a number of documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth century on the site, which is from the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.
Excerpts from Slave Narratives Edited by Steven Mintz: Sponsored by the University of Houston, this site has numerous narratives from the 1600s to emancipation.
Getting Word: the Monticello African-American Oral History Project: The home page of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation's project to locate and record the oral history of the descendants of Monticello's enslaved African-American community.
Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History & Culture: The National Park Service's site for sources and Web articles dealing with interpreting African-American history in its parks.
Race and Place: African American Community Histories: Get letters, government documents, newspapers, and images dealing with the African American experience as slaves and after the Civil War leading into World War II. Sponsored by the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
Slavery and the Ratification of the Constitution: Examine documents relating to the debate of slavery during the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
USA Slavery: Sponsored by the Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia. The Web site gives a general look at slavery in the U.S. It includes slave accounts, political organizations, events, and slave life.
Virginia Runaways: A digital database of runaway and captured slaves advertisements from 18th century Virginia newspapers. It has search and browse options.
WWW-VL: History: US: Slavery: University of Kansas WWW Virtual Library site on U.S. slavery. It includes chronologies, resources, and slave narratives.

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