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Scholarly Literature
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JSTORSearch this archive of full-text scholarly journals spanning a number of disciplines.
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Project MuseA source for full-text articles and books in many fields, including film studies
American Slavery: A Freshman Seminar
Spring 2019
Canoe for Transporting Slaves, Sierra Leone,1840s, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, compiled by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Reference Sources
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Oxford English DictionaryThe most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the English language.
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Oxford Reference OnlineExtensive collection of reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience by ISBN: 0195170555Publication Date: 2005-04-07 -
The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery by ISBN: 0874368855Publication Date: 1997-12-01 -
Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery by ISBN: 0313238146Publication Date: 1988-11-15 -
A Companion to African American History by ISBN: 0631230661Publication Date: 2005-02-04
Primary Sources
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History VaultAccess letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface.
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From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909Presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Debates over Slavery and AbolitionOver 1.5 million cross-searchable pages of primary sources on transatlantic slavery and other scholarly publications.