African American History 1600-1945 - US History - 10th Grade Spring Research Paper, Dr. Johnson - Spence School Library at The Spence School

Slavery

The Abolition of the Slave Trade
New York Public Library. More than 8,000 pages of original essays, primary documents—books, pamphlets, articles, and illustrations—as well as secondary sources and original maps.
African American Perspectives 1818 - 1907
Library of Congress
African American Women During Slavery and the Civil War
Duke University
New-York Historical Society, Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery
New-York Historical Society
The May Anti-Slavery Collection
Cornell University. Rich compilation of primary resources.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Library of Congress. "Contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States."
Slave Narratives
University of North Carolina
Slave Trade and the Great Migration
The New York Public Library,
The Spread of US Slavery
Map by Lincoln Mullen. Code available on GitHub, licensed MIT.
Quakers & Slavery
Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges
A Tale of Two Plantations
Richard S. Dunn. Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, Harvard University, and the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. "Contains family diagrams, trees, and lists drawn from enslavers’ inventories."
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Documents and Culture
University of Virginia
Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal
Yale University. Primary sources related to slavery, abolition, and resistance.
Free At Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh. Slave Papers.
Friend of Man
Cornell University. "Friend of Man is one of the most significant and little studied newspapers documenting early anti-slavery and other reform movements."
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
"A collection contains over 200 individual items that document African American history, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles."
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
"The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on more than 35,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries."
The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va.
Digitized books related to Nat Turner provided by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill library.
Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery
"They consist of diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions." - New York Historical Society

Culture & Government

Atlantic Monthly
Project Gutenberg 1858-1867
Chronicling America: Newspapers 1836-1922
Library of Congress
The Making of America, Cornell University
"A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
The Making of America, University of Michigan Collection
"A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology."
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Library of Congress
The Nullification Crisis (1832-33)
Library of Congress
Oneida Community
Syracuse University
Primary Documents in American History: National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Library of Congress. Includes Missouri Compromise (1820), Indian Removal Act (1830), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857).

Civil War: Northern & Southern Viewpoints

"Records of the 105th. U.S. Colored Troops"
The NC-US Colored Troops Project
African American Women During Slavery and the Civil War
Duke University
American Civil War Newspapers
Virginia Tech
Antebellum Lincoln Documents: Northern Illinois 1830-1861
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project
The Civil War
National Park Service. Website covers all aspects of the civil war with access to primary source documents including Ethnicity, Race, and the Military; Women; and Civilian Life.
The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News
Emory University
The Crises of the Union, Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the Civil War
University of Pennsylvania. Digital Objects related to the "political, economic, social, religious, racial and gender issues from the Jacksonian Era to the Gilded Age."
New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War
New York Historical Society
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Rice University. President of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities During the Civil War
University of Virginia. This archive tells the story of major national political events that occurred between 1859 and April 1870 from the viewpoint of two communities, one Northern and one Southern.

Migrations

African American Migration Experience
The site presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. It is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation.

Reconstruction

African American Odyssey: Reconstruction
Library of Congress. Primary sources related to "200 years of African American struggle and achievement."
The Freedmen's Bureau
University of Virginia
The Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872
National Archives, National and State Records
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
University of Maryland
Harpar's Weekly: Explore History
Covering the 1860 - 1900, resources include articles, editorials, government documents, and political cartoons.
The Presidential Elections: 1860 - 1912
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
PBS
Toward Racial Equality: Harpar's Weekly Reports 1857 - 1874
Harpweek.com

Late 1800s - 1945

African American Experience in Ohio
Library of Congress
African American Perspectives: 1875 - 1900
The Daniel A. P. Murray Pamphlet Collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African-American history and culture from 1875 to 1900. Among the authors represented are Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Benjamin W. Arnett, Alexander Crummel, and Emanuel Love.
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
"52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920." - NYPL
The Church in the Southern Black Community
"The Church in the Southern Black Community collects autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials." - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mid 1800s - Mid 1900s
Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
Duke University's Oral History Project: Behind the Veil
Documenting the American South's Library of Southern Literature
"The "Library of Southern Literature" includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924." - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Duluth Lynchings
"Background and historical documents related to the tragic events of June 15, 1920."
Emilie Davis Archives
"Emilie Davis was an African-American woman living in Philadelphia during the U.S. Civil War. This website is a transcription of Emilie’s three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865."
Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
Diaries, books, personal correspondence. 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material dating from 1862 to 1865
Frederick Douglass Project
Writings, speeches, images. 1870s-1880s
George Washington Carver papers
This digital collection contains images of Carver as well as letters and correspondence between Carver and Iowa State colleagues. The majority of correspondence is to Carver's mentor, Dr. Louis Pammel, on a variety of scientific topics. 1880s - 1940s
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
"A collection contains over 200 individual items that document African American history, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles." 1500-1950s
In Pursuit of Freedom
A Brooklyn Historical Society, Weeksville Heritage Center & Irondale Ensemble Project collaboration.
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Provides images of racist objects, images and cartoons along with scholarly essays. "Jim Crow was not just a character or a set of "laws", it was a system that built upon itself to create and sustain a society with a racial hierarchy." 1850s - Present Day
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
PBS
Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America
"Please be aware before entering the site that much of the material is very disturbing. Searching through America's past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America." 1880-1940s
African American History: Primary Documents
"Major documents that help explain the history of African America."

Harlem Renaissance

A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
"African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are well represented in the vast collections of the Library of Congress. This guide presents the Library's resources as well as links to external Web sites on the Harlem Renaissance and a bibliography."
Drop Me Off in Harlem
"Drop Me Off in Harlem is a Web-based resource for teachers and students that explores the themes and works that emerged when creative and intellectual voices intersected during the Harlem Renaissance."
The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC
"The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s was a period characterized by an outpouring of literature by African Americans. Although it was primarily a literary and intellectual movement, it is our hope to also explore the role of the visual arts, music and performing arts."
Digital Harlem
"Legal records, newspapers and other archival and published sources, about everyday life in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the years 1915-1930."

US History - 10th Grade Spring Research Paper, Dr. Johnson: African American History 1600-1945

Slavery

Culture & Government

Civil War: Northern & Southern Viewpoints

Migrations

Reconstruction

Late 1800s - 1945

Harlem Renaissance