Slavery

American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922​ contains over 3,500 works -- books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera -- pertaining to transatlantic slavery, movements for its abolition, and memories of slavery published after the Civil War. Materials are drawn from American Antiquarian Society, and derive from different regions of the United States as well as some imprints from the Caribbean region and Europe.

Anti-Slavery Manuscripts The Boston Public Library (BPL) (1830s-1870s)  includes thousands of letters, pamphlets, newspapers, and other materials.  BPL has enlisted citizen historians to transcribe these documents on the Zooniverse platform.

Freedom on the Move is a database of newspaper advertisements by slaveholders and by jailers trying to locate the slaveholders of captured slaves.

Massachusetts Archives anti-slavery and anti-segregation petitions are now available online

On the lives of fugitives: Runaway slave advertisement databases

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database   includes records from over 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866.

A Tale of Two Plantations: Mount Airy plantation in Virginia and Mesopotamia plantation in Jamaica offers lineages of slaves over several generations. More Information.

 

Slavery in America and the world : history, culture & law (HeinOnline) offers legal materials on slavery in the English-speaking world 

Digital Library on American Slavery.  No date limitation.  Demands a keyword.

ProQuest history vault. Slavery in antebellum Southern industries (1700-1896) includes company records; business and personal correspondence.

Slavery in America and the world : history, culture & law (HeinOnline) offers legal materials on slavery in the English-speaking world 

Documenting the American South contains primary sources documenting the cultural history of the American South, mostly during the 19th century.

Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal

Slaves and the Courts (1740-1860) contains 100 pamphlets.

Slavery and Abolition in the US: Select Publications - Deila

Sabin Americana Digital Archive (1500-1926) contains works about the Americas published worldwide. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts

ProQuest history vault. Slavery in antebellum Southern industries (1700-1896) includes company records; business and personal correspondence.

The Making of the Modern World offers full text searching of works on economics and business published from 1450-1914 from the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School and the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library. Includes material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, public health, trade, etc. Has considerable French material.

Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922 offers over 12,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, from the Library Company of Philadelphia. 

Black Abolitionist Papers (1830-1865): Circa 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of nearly 300 Black abolitionists in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. Correspondence, speeches, sermons, and lectures; articles, essays, editorials, and other major writings from abolitionist and reform newspapers; and receipts, poems, and other miscellaneous documents.

Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice, 1490-2007 is a "portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.

Slavery and Anti-slavery: A Transnational Archive. (1700-1940) includes books, pamphlets, newspapers and manuscript collections. Associated reference works and interpretive essays.

British records on the Atlantic world (17th-19th centuries) includes missionary records, records of the slave trade and of missionaries, Jamaican estates and other subjects
HOLLIS Record (Online Collection)

American Slavery Collection, (1820-1922, primarily before 1880). Includes over 3,500 books, pamphlets, graphic materials, and ephemera pertaining to transatlantic slavery, abolitionism, and memoir of slavery published after the Civil War drawn from American Antiquarian Society. Includes some Caribbean and European imprints as well as US.