Primary Source Databases African-American Song* Online collection of over 16,000 music tracks from the first half of the 20th century. Includes a variety of styles including ragtime, blues, gospel, jazz, folk songs and narratives. African-American Poetry African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy (CD-ROM and online) Black Drama: 1850 to the Present Database of full-text African-American plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Black Thought and Culture Contains full text and bibliographic information about the black community and its leaders, from the 1700's to present times. Includes monographs, essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and other publications. Contains many never before published materials. Brazilian Digitization Project: Provincial President Reports Executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993, and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire. Gallica: la bibliothéque numérique de la Bibliothéque nationale de France Gallica is a searchable database the provides access to 90,000 works and over 80,000 images held at the Bibliothéque nationale de France. Text are in pdf format. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Primary Sources in African American History Contains the full text of primary source material on African-American history. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (CD-ROM) Finding Aids & Catalogs Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro literature & history. 1962, 9 vols. Microfilm Collections Records of Antebellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War Slavery: Source Material and Critical Literature Latin American and Iberian Pamphlets, II Slavery: Source Material and Critical Literature Schomburg Collection Published Sources Afro-American history: primary sources, Thomas R. Frazier, ed. Chicago, Ill.: Dorsey Press, c1988. 2nd ed. The winding road to freedom: a documentary survey of Negro experiences in America, Alfred E. Cain, ed. Yonkers [N.Y.]: Educational Heritage, [1965] Cone, James H. Black Theology: a Documentary History. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1993. Free at last : a documentary history of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War. Families and freedom : a documentary history of African-American kinship in the Civil War era. 1997 Voices of the spirit : sources for interpreting the African American experience. 1995. Robert Conrad, ed. Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil George P. Rawick, ed. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Herbert Aptheker, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States Helen Catterall, ed. Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro Elizabeth Donnan, ed. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America John Blassingame, ed. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies Ripley, C. Peter, et al., eds. The Black Abolitionist Papers, 5 vols. Lathan Windley, Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790s, 5 vols. Allan D. Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook Online Primary Sources African-American Perspectives http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/ African-American Sheet Music http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/ African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html American Slave Narratives http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/wpa/wpahome.html Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Frederick Douglass Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/ Mr. Lincoln’s Virtual Library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.html Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ Race and Slavery Petitions Project Director: Dr. Loren Schweninger (http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions/about.asp) The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record Authors: Dr. Jerome S. Handler and Mr. Michael L. Tuite, Jr. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php The Geography of Slavery Author: Dr. Tom Costa http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/index.html Home Back Next: Other African Diaspora Research Guideshttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.htmlhttp://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/wpa/wpahome.htmlhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alhome.htmlhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions/about.asphttp://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.phphttp://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/index.htmlIntroduction.htmlPeriodicals.htmlOther%20Guides.htmlshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12shapeimage_3_link_13shapeimage_3_link_14
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Jessica Marie Johnson
History Department
University of Maryland-College Park
 
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