Africana Digitization Project
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: A project at the University of Wisconsin offering free access to searchable online copies of published sources for West African history, with a focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade era. Browse or search the content from the following list of titles in the Africana Digitization Project:
Almada, Andre Alvares de, Brief Treatise on the Rivers of Guinea, c. 1594* (privately produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair)
Alvares, Manuel, Ethiopia Minor and a Geographical Account of the Province of Sierra Leone* (privately produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair)
Barbot's West African Vocabularies of c. 1680* (privately produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair)
Fage, J. D., A Guide to Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in European Languages (African Studies Program, UW-Madison, 1994)
Jesuit Documents on the Guinea of Cape Verde and the Cape Verde Islands, 1585-1617* (privately produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair)
Jones, Adam. Raw, medium, well done: a critical review of editorial and quasi-editorial work on pre-1885 European sources for Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-1986 (1987)
Lovejoy, Paul E. (ed.), Africans in bondage: studies in slavery and the slave trade: essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986)
Coverage: ca. 1526-1680
Subject(s):
African & Middle East Studies
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