The Africans in America Web site is a companion to WGBH produced Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. ...

The Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse by Titles | Authors | Subjects From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, ...

Timeline of African American slavery in the United States, with links from each entry to source material used in the creation of the chronology.

Third Person, First Person Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library Broadside Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University These web pages are based on the catalog of an exhibit mounted at Perkins Library, Duke University, in November and December, 1995. Some of the items described here were too large or fragile to be scanned, so images of them were not included in the ...

African-American Mosaic Conflict of Abolition and Slavery Map Comparing Slave and Free States This map compares statistics on free and slave states. Issued during the presidential election campaign of 1856, it pictures famous Western explorer John C. Fremont (1813-1890), the first presidential candidate of the Republican Party, and his running mate, William L. Dayton (1807-1864). The Republican ...

African American Odyssey Introduction | Overview | Object List | Search Exhibit Sections: Slavery | Free Blacks | Abolition | Civil War | Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era | WWI-Post War | The Depression-WWII | Civil Rights Era | Slavery--The Peculiar Institution Part 1: The Atlantic Slave Trade | Liberation Strategies Part 2 During the course of the slave trade, millions of Africans ...

The Slave Trade ...

Chronological account of laws concerning slavery in the United States.

The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom is an exhibit which shows America in crisis and how that point in time was resolved. Slavery as an issue in America was in constant conflict with the founding Democratic principles of this nation. Slavery therefore became the ultimate test of disunity within the union of states which were already at odds in a democracy espousing freedom for its people.

USA-project, documents-area, Benjamin Drew, Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives (ca. 1850) ...

This site offers contemporary and historic information concerning Black America and the Abolitionist.

USA-project, presidents-area, Thomas Jeffersons on Slavery ...

Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791. Slavery In Early America's Colonies-- Seeds of Servitude Rooted in The Civil Law of Rome by Charles P.M. Outwin CLICK FOR INTRODUCTION BY AUTHOR Introduction First devised during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the laws and justice system governing the institution of Negro ...

Volume Thirty-Six 1994 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61 Jason Poole I. Introduction In 1848 Michael J. Eggart spoke to the Friendly Moralist Society, an exclusive group of free, light-skinned African-American Charlestonians, about their position in ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture. Along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the ratification of Kansas' admission for free statehood, this legislation is part of the ...

About History Buff History Library Audio/Video Library Presidential Library Newspaper Resources Online Newspaper Archives Interactive Quizes State Facts: Select State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana ...

The AFRO-AMERICAN Almanac provides an engaging and comtemplative exploration of the origins of the African in America.

Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863 - President Lincoln this document which was directed only to the states that seceded from the Union. Slaves states that remained with the Union was not affected. ...