HST 291: Mapping Slavery

Database detailing the background of 100,000 slaves brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Includes names, genders, ages, occupations, testimony, and emancipations.

Chronicles historical events, people, places, and ideas that shaped America.

This compilation of printed texts from the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documents the culture of the nineteenth-century American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It includes the diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives of not only prominent individuals, but also of relatively inaccessible populations: women, African Americans, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans.

Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Has over a thousand slavery related images of historical art and artifacts.

Contains archeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolina Low Country and the Caribbean. Offers scholars easy access to data from a large (currently 32) and steadily growing number archaeological sites located in these regions.

Nnonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. Includes resources for teachers and students as well as more than 60,000 unique historical documents.

NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential proclamations and executive orders, and federal regulations. Preserves documents and materials from the US Federal Government that are considered important for legal and historical reasons.

Details for more than 2.7 million slaves and 280,000 slave owners from a total of 17 former colonial dependencies, including Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, Honduras and more. The registers list each slave by name and include gender, approximate age and, in some instances, birthplace, as well as parish of residence.

Resource guide for the study of black history & culture from the Library of Congress.

Basic fact sheet covering numerous areas relating to slavery including geography, religion, organization, myths, and misconceptions.

Site for the Monticello estate. Includes resources on plantation life and slavery.

Provides an overview of slavery from the beginning forces to the resettlement of freed slaves. Also offers a helpful timeline and suggestions for further reading.

Contains records that document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants.