memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/
The African-American Pamphlet Collection of the American Memory
Library of Congress contains 397 pamphlets from the period
1824-1909 written by African Americans and others on a variety
of subjects relating to African-American history, including
slavery, African colonization, emancipation, and Reconstruction.
Site offers page images of each pamphlet as well as fully
searchable transcribed texts and browse lists organized by
author, title, and subject. |
memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection of the American
Memory Library of Congress presents a 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. |
www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman/life.htm
Site includes a biography of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of
the Underground Railroad, and links to other sites about her. |
http://stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/index.cfm
St. Louis Circuirt Court Historical Records Project. This
site provides nearly 300 images of original legal petitions
for freedom by African Americans originally filed in St. Louis
courts between 1814 and 1860. Text of related legal statutes
are also included but transcriptions of the hand-written petitions
are not provided. Site is maintained by the Missouri
State Archives in conjunction with St. Louis University, the
University of Missouri at St. Louis and Washington University.
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http://www.undergroundrailroad.org
Site of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center provides
information on fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad
as well as links to other sites dealing with the Underground
Railroad. |
www.pbs.org/africansinamerica
PBS site based on its series, Africans in America. Site
presents America's journey through slavery from 1450-1865
in four parts. For each part, there is a historical narrative,
a resource bank of images, documents, stories, biographies,
and commentaries. |
blackhistory.eb.com/index2.html
The Encyclopedia Brittanica Guide to Black History.
Site includes articles and audio and visual clips relating
to African-American history, as well as a timeline, a bibliography,
and links to other sites. |
lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Selections from The African-American Mosaic: A Library of
Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and
Culture. Site surveys the full range of the Library of Congress's
collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs,
music, film, and recorded sound. |
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
Scanned pages and text of writings by African American women
from the Special Collections Library of Duke University.
Includes links to related sites. |
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
Site based on Duke University's exhibit entitled "Third Person,
First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library."
Includes scanned images and transcribed text relating to slavery,
the slave trade, slave work, fugitive slaves, and slave life
and community. |
xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
Site provides photos, text and audio clips from interviews
of ex-slaves conducted the Works Progress Administration in
the 1930s. |
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia.
Site contains full text of a number of African-American literary
classics, including _The Narrative of Sojourner Truth_, Harriet
Jacobs' _Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl_, and Booker
T. Washington's _Up From Slavery_. |
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis
Gateway to African-American History sponsored by the U.S.
Department of State's International Information Programs.
Site includes text of speeches and writings of Martin Luther
King, Jr., Presidential speeches relating to African American
history, the full text of Arthur Abraham's _Amistad Revolt_
(in English, French and Spanish), a bibliography and links
to other related sites. |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/
Audio recordings from what may be the first folk festival
created by and for African-Americans. Site contains
approximately one hundred sound recordings and related documentation
such as song lists and correspondence created during trips
to the Fort Valley State College Folk Festival in Fort Valley,
Geogia. Site maintained by the Library of Congress. |
