History of the Slave Trade - information on slavery and the slave trade
I Will be Heard: Abolitionism in America - information on abolition, including slave narratives
Linkin' Logs' Slavery Folder - information on the slave trade, the Middle Passage, and slavery in general
New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War - an exhibit on the conflict between pro and anti slave activist in NY during the time of the Civil War.
Slavery in New York - information on the history of slavery in New York City.
Slavery in the USA - from Spartacus Educational, a good source for slave accounts, the life of a slave and the slave system.
Terrible Transformation - WMHT's 4 part series on "America's journey through slavery"
Up from Slaver: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
African American Odyssey - primary sources from the Library of Congress
Born in Slavery - slave narrative from the Library of Congress
Dred Scott Case Collection - information on the legal case that increased tensions prior to the Civil War.
Slavery & Abolition in the US - "a digital collection of books and pamphlets that demonstrate the varying ideas and beliefs about slavery in the United States"
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture - information on the book and the responses from both African Americans and pro-slavery people of the time.
Voices from the Days of Slavery - "Former Slaves tell their Stories"
Want Ads for Lost Relatives 1865-67 - taken from the Colored Tennessean
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