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Description: Full text of the newspaper Freedom's Journal, which provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices. The Journal also published biographies of prominent African-Americans and listings of births, deaths, and marriages in the African-American New York community. Freedom's Journal circulated in 11 states, the District of Columbia, Haiti, Europe, and Canada. Also see:
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - Excerpts from the 1936 to 1938 WPA project to interview over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration.
- Atlantic Slave Trade and
Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - Contains over a thousand images selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
- Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency - Features notes issued and circulated in the South during the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction Eras depicting images of slavery.
- Slavery and Antislavery:
A Bibliography of Recent Works in English - Source for Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Journals, Films, General Works, and Collections of Essays on slavery throughout the world.
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 - Contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) from the Library of Congress collection concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.
- Territorial Kansas, 1854-1861 - Contains "Hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps bring to life the settling of Kansas during the fierce debate over slavery."
- Voices from the Days of Slavery - Includes interviews with 23 individuals, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, who "discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom."
Coverage: March 1827 - March 1829
Subject(s): Gender, Minority Studies & Anthropology History, Genealogy & Archives
Newspapers (Historical)
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
Accessible Archives African American Biographical Database Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources Chicago Defender
Related Links
Documenting the American South
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