Slavery

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new window
A research database from Adam Matthew with original material from 30 libraries and archives including the British Library, Duke University, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL. Close attention has been given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law
Free collection from Hein Online. The collection “brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.” Also includes anti-slavery periodicals and publications.
Slave Voyages
Resources to analyze the Slave trade. Includes The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database; The Intra-American Slave Trade Database; The African Names Database.
Freedom Narratives
"Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery"
North American Slave Narratives
"This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920." Part of Documenting the American South digital collection.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
Freedom on the Move (Runaway Slave Ads)
After initial curation, the ads become available for crowdsourcing to add metadata to the text of the ads to aid searching.

National Anti-Slavery Standard This link opens in a new window
Middlebury only has 1840 - 1844. It was published 1840-1870, it was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.

Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
"Papers of the nineteenth-century African American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher."
Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery [New York Public Library]
Diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions. Include the records of the New York Manumission Society and the African Free School, the diaries and correspondence of English abolitionists Granville Sharp and John Clarkson, papers of the Boston anti-slavery activist Lysander Spooner, records of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and more.
Liberated Africans
Detailed court records for over 100,000 individuals. "Retraces the lives of over 250,000 people emancipated under global campaigns to abolish slavery, as well as thousands of officials, captains, crews, and guardians..."
Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Amistad Case
Digital collection from Tulane's Amistad Research Center. "Over 300 letters and documents written by abolitionists, government officials, the Amistad Captives, and others pertaining to the events leading up to the 1841 U.S. Supreme Court case Amistad v. United States."
Robinson Family Letters (Special Collections at Middlebury)
15,000 letters from a family who harbored runaway slaves and were active in the Abolitionist Movement. The letters date from 1757 to 1962 and are on loan from the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Search ArchivesSpace for a contents list. For access see hours at Middlebury College Special Collections.
Georgetown Slavery Archive
"a repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery."