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"I Will Be Heard!": Abolitionism in America view detail comment email this

A well-organized, content-rich site with a wide range of authoritative information. Includes profiles of prominent abolitionists, slave narratives, background on the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment, critical resources on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and much more. From Cornell University, Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/
Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, United States History

Last updated Feb 27, 2005


Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 view detail comment email this

"More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves" collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression. It was originally published as the seventeen-volume "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves" (1941). Search by keyword or browse the narratives and photographs. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/
Topics: Black Resources, Labor, Literary Movements and Periods, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, United States History

Last updated Dec 18, 2008


Documenting the American South (DAS) view detail comment email this

Over 1,200 primary sources documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes Southern literature to 1920; first-person narratives, including diaries, memoirs, ex-slave narratives, and travel accounts; the church in black communities to 1920; materials documenting life during the Civil War; and a collection on the history of North Carolina to 1940. Searchable. From the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Topics: Black Resources, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature & Books, Nonfiction by Genre, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Wars & Conflicts

Last updated Nov 17, 2004




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