HIST 498: Capstone-Voices of the Enslaved (Fall 2024): Library research guide

Search for books, articles, videos, and other UA library resources.

Find primary sources in this collection of European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, missionary records, folklore, oral traditions, songs, and more.

A database of fugitives from American Slavery digital project

English translations of over 200 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome.

From the Documenting the American South digital project

Brings together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the UK and North America. From a largely colonial and thus Western and Eurocentric perspective, the material focuses on the varieties of slavery, the legacies of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery in the twentieth century.

Transnational archive devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America and the rest of the world from the 17th century to the late 19th century.

Digital project

Find documents, images, and more from the United Nations.

From the Library of Congress.

Find primary documents including newspaper articles, cartoons, pamphlets, speeches, photographs, and memoirs examining the impact of slavery on women, both enslaved and free, African American and white, in the United States.