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Newspapers
- 19th Century UK Periodicals
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (1691-1820)
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (1821-1837)
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (1838-1852)
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (1853-1865)
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (1866-1877)
- America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922
- American Periodicals
- Baltimore Sun (1837-1992)
- British Library Newspapers 1732-1950
- British Periodicals
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- Guardian (1821-2003) and the Observer (1791-2003)
- Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
- International Women's Periodicals
- Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
- Proquest Historical Newspapers
- Publisher's Weekly Archive (1872-2016)
- Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006
- Times Digital Archive 1785-2010
Primary Source Web Resources
- Slave VoyagesThis digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. Analyze these slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations to see the dispersal in action.
- Documenting the American SouthDocumenting the American South (DocSouth) includes sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.
- Slavery ImagesThe images in Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. Our growing collection currently has over 1,200 images.
- Slave BiographiesSlave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World hosted at MATRIX, the Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves. Currently, users of the website can access data about slaves in colonial Louisiana and Maranhão, Brazil resulting from the research of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Walter Hawthorne.
Primary Source Databases
Slavery Specific Source Collections
- Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
- Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners, 1686-1860
- The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade, 1759-1832
Additional Source Collections
- Accessible Archives
- AM Explorer
- American Broadsides and Ephemera
- American West
- America's Historical Imprints: Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker
- Archives Unbound
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 1500-1950
- British Literary Manuscripts Online
- Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953
- Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
- Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
- Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
- Early English Books Online
- Early Republic: Critical Editions on the Founding of the United States
- East India Company
- Empire Online
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
- Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlements and Colonial Encounters
- Gerritsen Collection--Women's History Online, 1543-1945
- Hein Online
- Historic Documents Series
- History Vault
- London Low Life
- Making of the Modern World, 1450-1945
- Maryland County Histories
- Migration to New Worlds
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
- Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
- South Africa in records from colonial missionaries, 1819-1900
- Victorian Popular Culture
- Women and Social Movements US 1600-2000
- Women Writers Online
JHU Special Collections
Microfilm Resources
British Colonies
- Slave Trade, 1858-1892, British Foreign Office [2856]
- Slavery Tracts and Pamphlets from the West Indian Committee [2675]
- The Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Anti-Slavery Collection 1795-1880 [2673]
- West Indies [2677]
United States
- Abolition and Emancipation [E889]
- Black Abolitionist papers, 1830-1865 [3318]
- Conrad/Tubman Collection [3223]
- Papers of Charles Sumner, 1811-1874 [3051]
- Papers of the American Slave Trade. Series A, Selections from the Rhode Island Historical Society
- Papers of the American Slave Trade. Series B, Selections from the Newport Historical Society
- Papers of the American Slave Trade. Series C, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection
- Papers of the American Slave Trade. Series D, Records of the U.S. Customhouses
- Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series I, Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867
- Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks. Series II, Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867
- Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations [A.R39] [Series A] [Series C] [Series E] [Series F 1-3, F 4-5] [Series G] [Series I] [Series J] [Series L] [Series M]
- Records of the Office of the Sec. of the Interior, Suppression of the African Slave Trade [2859]
- Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries [E154] [series A & B] [Series C] [Series D]
- State Slavery Statutes [C.2784]
- US Customs Service Records, New Orleans, 1840-60 (incoming slaves) [3355]; 1812-1860 (outgoing slaves) [3357]
Maryland Sources
- Maryland Historical SocietyMHS is only a shuttle trip away in Mount Vernon. In addition to the digital collections linked here, there are excellent physical materials in the archive.
- Maryland State ArchivesMSA has some excellent digitized materials that you can view without driving to Annapolis!