General Online Resources
(Also consult Supplemental Sites included in the Toolbox sections.)
TEACHERSERVE, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History
African American Religion, in Divining America: Religion in American History
- Part I: To the Civil War
- Part II: From the Civil War to the Great Migration
DIGITAL SCHOMBURG, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience
Lest We Forget: The Triumph over Slavery
The Abolition of the Slave Trade
African Americans in American Politics
The African Burial Ground
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
The African Presence in the Americas, 1492-1992
AMERICAN MEMORY Library of Congress
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the WPA Narratives. 1936-1938
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
Complete list of seventeen collections related to African American history and literature in American Memory, Library of Congress
UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS & WEB PRESENTATIONS (primary documents and images)
History Matters, George Mason University and the City University of New York
Search page to access African American primary texts and resources
Nineteenth-Century Slave Narratives, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Black Past.org, Dr. Quintard Taylor, University of Washington-Seattle
Black Abolitionist Archive, University of Detroit-Mercy
The Antislavery Literature Project, Arizona State University
Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
African American E-Texts in the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Visual Record, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab of the University of Virginia Library
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE (PBS)
African American Lives
African American World
Africans in America
Slavery and the Making of America
Soldiers without Swords: The Black Press
This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
OTHER RESOURCES
Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874, from HarpWeek.com
The Meaning of Freedom: Black and White Responses to the End of Slavery. Part Two of America's Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War, from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, et al.
Websites on African American History and Cultures, African Diaspora Archaeology Network, Chris Fennell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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