Slavery In The United States
 

Directory: United States History

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Section: General Historical Information
Web Link: Slavery In Colonial America
Web Link: Chronology On The History Of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789
Web Link: Chronology On The History of Slavery and Racism 1790-1829
Web Link: Chronology On The History of Slavery and Racism 1830-the end
Web Link: Slavery In The United States
Web Link: Africans In America In Four Parts
Web Link: "The United States Government Role In The Traffic of Slaves" 14th Congress
1st Session March, 1816.
Web Link: Slavery In America Image Gallery
Web Link: Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library At Duke University
Web Link: Slave Movement During The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Web Link: Slavery Timeline
Web Link: Slavery and the American Revolution
Web Link: Black Slaveowners
Web Link: Free Blacks Before The Revolutionary War
Web Link: Understanding Slavery: The Lives of 18th Century African-Americans
Web Link: Congress Grapples With Slavery Apology
Web Link: What Happened To Slaves When Their Owners Died?
Web Link: Manumission, Colonization and Emancipation
Web Link: The Civil War, Slavery and the Chesapeake Bay
Web Link: Confronting Slavery and Revealing The Lost Cause
Web Link: Opinions of the Early Presidents and of the Fathers of the Republic, upon Slavery and Upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers.


Section: The Economics Of American Slavery
Article Name: The Economics of Slave Labor Part I (A Philosophic View of Slave Labor, 1860 by J.E. Cairnes)     Posted 6/2/08
Article Name: The Economics of Slave Labor Part II (Cheapness of Slave Labor, 1852 By C.F. McCay)                Posted 6/2/08
Article Name: The Economics of Slave Labor Part III ( Cheapness of Free Labor, 1823 )                                       Posted 6/2/08
Web Link: System of Labor: The Slave
Web Link: Geographic Influences In American Slavery Part I
Web Link: Geographic Influences In American Slavery Part II
Web Link: Geographic Influences In American Slavery Part III
Web Link: Slavery and the Beginnings Of Industrialism In The American Colonies
Web Link: The Economic Cost of Slaveholding in the Cotton Belt
Web Link: Missouri Slavery As An Economic System 1804-1865


Section: Slavery In Other States
Web Link: The Slave Trade in Portsmouth, NH
Web Link: Slavery In Connecticut 1640-1848
Web Link: Slavery In Missouri
Web Link: Slavery In New York
Web Link: Slavery In Pennsylvania
Web Link: Slavery In New Jersey
Web Link: Dunkerhook, N.J. and Slavery
:Web Link: Slavery In The Oregon Country
:Web Link: Slavery In The Capital
Web Link: Slavery On The Southwestern Borderlands, Anglos, Slaves and Receding
Spaniards
Web Link: Securing The Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights For Slaves In Virginia and Maryland, 1625-1791
Web Link: Slavery In California
Web Link: Slave Laws In Virginia 1642-1705
Web Link: Timeline Of African-American History in New England 1629-1899
Web Link: Slavery In Early Texas Part I
Web Link: Slavery In Early Texas Part II
Web Link: Rhode island Slave Trade
Web Link: Slavery in South Carolina


Section: Slave Culture
Web Link: Plantation Courtship
Web Link: Slaves Cannot Marry
Web Link: Slaves Cannot Constitute Families
Web Link: Slave Society On The Southern Plantation


Section: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life In The Americas: A Visual Record
Web Link: Capture of Slaves and Coffles In Africa
Web Link: Slave Ships and the Atlantic Crossing (Middle Passage)
Web Link: Slave Sales and Auctions: African Coast and The Americas
Web Link: Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements and Houses
Web Link: Physical Punishment, Rebellion, Running Away
Web Link: Emancipation and Post-Slavery Life


Section: Slavery Abuses , Cruelties and Struggles To Gain Their Freedom
Sub Section: Slavery Abuses and Cruelties
Web Link: Slave Ships
Web Link: Letters To R.C. Ballard Regarding Slave Woman Abuse
Web Link: General Testimony to the Cruelties Inflicted Upon Slavery
Web Link: Narrative of James Williams, An American Slave Who Was For Several Years A Driver On A Cotton Plantation in Alabama.
Web Link: Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs: (Linda Brent)
Web Link: Fort Pillow Massacre 1864
Web Link: Runaway Slaves Advertisements 1730s-1800s
Web Link: Fugitives From Slavery
Web Link: Stolen Childhood Slave Youth in 19th Century America
Web Link: Slave Crime In Virginia


Sub Section: The Underground Railroad: A Way To Freedom
Web Link: The Underground Railroad
Web Link: The Underground Railroad ((National Geographic Online) A Visual Tour
Web Link: Taking The Train To Freedom [The Underground Railroad was neither "underground" nor a "railroad," but was a loose network of aid and assistance to fugitives from bondage. Perhaps as many as one hundred thousand enslaved persons may have escaped in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War.
Web Link: The Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York: It's History.
Web Link: The Underground Railroad In Jersey City
Web Link: Four Routes of the Underground Railroad Through New Jersey


Sub Section: Slave Revolts and Rebellions
Article Name: The Negro Riot of 1712
Article Name: The New York Conspiracy-1741
Web Link: The Dred Scott Case 1846 : An eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War.
Web Link: Amistad Mutiny
Web Link: The Amistad Trial 1839-1840
Web Link: Women In Slavery and The Fight For Social Freedom
Web Link: The Gabriel Prosser Conspiracy
Web Link: The Denmark Vesey Conspiracy
Web Link: The Nat Turner Rebellion
Web Link: The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt


Section: The Anti-Slavery Movement
Sub Section: Miscellaneous Information
Web Link: Anti-Slavery Poems Published by the Suffolk Gazette
Web Link: The History Of The British Abolition Movement
Web Link: The Anti-Slavery Movement
Web Link: Abolition (Library of Congress)
Web Link: An Anti-Slavery Manual or The Wrongs of American Slavery Exposed By The Light of the Bible and of Facts, With a Remedy For The Evil
Web Link: Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
Web Link: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
Web Link: The Free-Soil Party
Web Link: The American Anti-Slavery Society
Web Link: Two Letters Regarding Bleeding Kansas 1855
Web Link: Founding of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society
Web Link: Pennsylvania's Act For The Gradual Abolition of Slavery 1780
Web Link: Petition of 1788 by Slaves of New Haven For The Abolition of Slavery in Connecticut


Sub Section: The Abolitionists: Freedom Sympathizers Who Campaigned Against Slavery
Web Link: Ana Elizabeth Dickinson
Web Link: William Lloyd Garrison
Web Link: Arthur Bullus Bradford
Web Link: Joshua Reed Giddings
Web Link: Samuel Eli Cornish
Web Link: Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868
Web Link: Robert Purvis
Web Link: Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
Web Link: Remembering Martin R. Delaney
Web Link: Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin)
Web Link: Charles Henry Langston and the African American Struggle in Kansas
Web Link: The Life of Arthur Tappan
Web Link: Isaac Hopper
Web Link: Charles Lenox Remond
Web Link: Theodore Parker
Web Link: Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-?)
Web Link: Elijah Parish Lovejoy: Abolitionist


Section: Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery
Web Link: 1794 - An Act to Prohibit the Carrying on the Slave Trade from the United States to any Foreign Place or Country : March 22
Web Link: 1807 - An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves into any Port or Place Within the Jurisdiction of the United States, From and After the First Day of January, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight : March 2
Web Link: Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: Eric Foner, Professor of History at Columbia University discusses the effects of the Fugitive Slave Law in the North
Web Link: The Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863
Web Link: An Act Concerning Free Negroes and Mulattos, Servants, and Slaves
Web Link: A Bill To Permiot Free Persons of Color to Select Their Own Masters and Become Slaves 1860-1861
Web Link: 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Web Link: 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Web Link: The Voting Rights Act (1965)


Section: America After Slavery
Sub Section: Civil Rights Acts/Movements
Web Link: Civil Rights Act of 1866, 1870, 1871 and 1875
Web Link: Civil Rights Movement 1950s
Web Link: Civil Rights Act 1964
Web Link: Civil Rights Timeline 1954-2005
Web Link: The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1963 (photographs and text)
Web Link: History Of The Civil Rights Struggle (History Channel)
Web Link: Historical Publications of the United States Commission On Civil Rights: "By providing access to the historical record of this important Federal Agency the Thurgood Marshall Law Library will offer scholars an opportunity to examine the efforts of the Commission more closely."
Web Link: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Web Link: The March on Washington 1963
Web Link: Sit-Ins 1960
Web Link: Early Steps Toward Desegregation
Web Link: Selma March


Sub Section: Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Web Link: A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
Web Link: Martin Luther King, Jr., Day


Sub Section: Miscellaneous Events/Issues
Web Link: Great Migration
Web Link: Freedman's Bureau (provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed black Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.)
Web Link: The Western Sanitary Commission
Web Link: Lynching
Web Link: America After Slavery: From Lynching To White Riots
Web Link: Life After the 13th Amendment 1865
Web Link: Racism
Web Link: Ku Klux Klan 1866
Web Link: New Orleans Race Riot 1866
Web Link: Plessy vs. Ferguson 1892
Web Link: Alex Manly: Wilmington Race Riots 1898
Web Link: The Brownsville Affair 1906: A Racial incident in Brownsville, Texas
Web Link: Springfield Race Riot 1908
Web Link: East Saint Louis Race Riot of 1917
Web Link: Chicago Race Riot of 1919
Web Link: The Washington, D.C. Race Riot of 1919
Web Link: Tusa, 1921: Feature article from the June 15, 1921 issue regarding the Tulsa race riot of 1921
Web Link: The Scottsboro Case 1930s
Web Link: The 1943 Detroit Race Riots
Article Name: The Harlem Riot 1943
Web Link: Violence In Selma 1963
Web Link: Watts Racial Riot 1965
Web Link: The History of Jim Crow
Web Link: The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Web Link: Mississippi Burning Trial 1967 U.S. vs. Cecil Price et al.
Web Link: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971
Web Link: Malcolm X


Sub Section: Civil Rights Organizations
Web Link The NAACP Timeline
Web Link National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
Web Link National Urban League
Web Link Affirmative Action


Section: Accomplished African-Americans Who Were Once Slaves
Web Link: Narrative of Sojourner Truth 1850
Web Link: Frederick Douglass
Web Link: Solomon Northup
Web Link: Henry Clay Bruce
Web Link: Phillis Wheatley
Web Link: Moses Grandy
Web Link: James W. C. Pennington
Web Link: Elizabeth Keckley
Web Link: African American Women On Line Collection At Duke University
Web Link: Booker T. Washington: (Son of A Slave) Up From Slavery: An Autobiography


Section: Educational Institutions
Web Link: Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (a historically black school)
Web Link: Alabama State University (enrollment predominately African-American)
Web Link: Alcorn State University (enrollment predominately African-American)
Web Link:  Fisk University ( One of the most notable historically black colleges, it is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.)
Web Link: Fort Valley State University ( It is a historically black university, part of the University System of Georgia, and a land-grant college; its enrollment remains predominantly African American. )
Web Link: Howard University ( it was founded with a special obligation to provide advanced studies for blacks. Its library is the leading research library on African American history.)
Web Link: Kentucky State College (Historically an African American institution, Kentucky State University now has a racially balanced student body. )
Web Link: Langston University (It is Oklahoma's only historically black institution of higher learning and has land-grant status.)
Web Link: Morehouse College: It is the nation’s largest, private liberal arts college for African-American men.

Section: African-Americans and Their Accomplishments
Web Link: Early Recordings of African Americans/ Early Ragtime
Web Link: Cab Calloway, perfomer at the Cotton Club
Web Link: Dorothy Dandridge
Web Link: Duke Ellington
Web Link: Lena Horne
Web Link: Drop Me Off in Harlem-Faces of the Renaissance
Web Link: Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. (1865-1953)
Web Link: The Rise of Black Professionals
Web Link: The Harlem Globetrotters
Web Link: The Boys Choir of Harlem Sings A Song of Hope
Web Link: The Dance Theater of Harlem
Web Link: Brief Sketches of African Americans
Web Link: Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
Web Link: Jacob Lawrence: One of the Most Important Artists of the 20th Century
Web Link: Madame C. J. Walker-Inventor and Businesswoman
Web Link: Marian Anderson: A Life in Song
Web Link: Charles Richard Drew: Physician and Surgeon
Web Link: The Black Fashion Museum-The African Diaspora Experience
Web Link: Hallie Quinn Brown 1850-1949 Educator, Lecturer and Clubwoman
Web Link: John B. Russwurm and Samuel E.Cornish - March 16, 1827, on this day they founded one of the first Black newspapers, The Freedom Journal, in New York CIty
Web Link: Classic Black - photography exhibit of African American ballet dancers, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York
Web Link: Prudence Crandall-Educator and AbolitionistWeb
Web Link: The Harlem Renaissance
Web Link: The Story of Nat King Cole
Web Link: Ethel Waters
Web Link: People Of Jazz Index
Web Link: The Golden Age of Jazz
Web Link: Black Musicians and Early Radio
Web Link: Sterling A. Brown Poet
Web Link: Lucille Clifton Poet
Web Link: Gwendolyn Brooks Writer
Web Link: The New Negro Movement: The Harlem Renaissance
Web Link: National Association for the Study and Performance of African American Music
Web Link: National Association of Negro Musicians
Web Link: African-American Museums and Historical Sites in Maryland
Web Link: Ralph Bunche: At the end of World War II, he helped to form the United Nations. In 1950, Bunche worked to bring about a peace between the warring Israelis and Arabs in the Middle East.
Web Link: Richard Drew: He Gave Up A Job When he Refused a Racist order.
Web Link: Lorraine Hansbury: She became the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.
Web Link: Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany
Web Link: Paul Robeson: ”As I went out into life, one thing loomed above all else: I was my father’s son, a Negro in America. That was a challenge.”
Web Link: Zoraneale Hurston: Her writings were so well-received that she was given a scholarship to Barnard College where she studied anthropology
Web Link: A Legacy of Black Talent
Web Link: Massachusetts's Hall of Black Achievement At BSC
Web Link: Fannie Barrier Williams
Web Link: Constance Baker Motley


Online Book  Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl  By Harriet Jacobs (Penname Linda Brent)
Online Book  The Narrative Of Sojourner Truth  By Olive Gilbert, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth
Online Book Up From Slavery, An Autobiography   Booker T. Washington
Online Book Our Nig; or Sketches From The Life Of A Free Black 1859 by Harriet Wilson
Online Book Mules and Men, An E-Text Edition By Zora Neale Hurston
Online Book The Souls Of Black Folk By W.E. B. Du Bois


Section: A Guide To Passages In Abdy"s Journal Which Mention Northern Free Blacks and White Racial Attitudes Chapters 1-33.


Section: Finding Aids To Black Studies Research Sources
Web Link: Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures 1777-1867 Series I (PDF)
Web Link: Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks:  Petitions to Souther County Courts 1775-1867 Series II (PDF)
Web Link: Manuscript Collections From the Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture: The New York Public Library
Web Link: African American Studies
Web Link: The Black Power Movement
Web Link: Papers Of The American Slave Trade
Web Link: Sources of Information about Black Notables at the New Orleans Public Library
Web Link: Resources On Slavery At. B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library

 
 
 
 
 
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