Slavery Resources: Home

2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

A digital record of the African slave trade and slave life in the early African diaspora.

Digital collections of the Library of Congress relating to Frederick Douglass.

Digital publishing initiative from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Digitized materials from the Library of Congress' Rare Books and Special Collections by African American authors written 1822-1909.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents a new interpretation of African-American history, one that focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds.

Documents regarding slaving through Timbuktu.

Includes four databases which contain records of nearly 35,000 separate slaving voyages between 1514 and 1866. Voyages database: search for information on specific voyages or sets of voyages; Estimates database: use the interactive estimates page to analyze the full volume and multiple routes of the slave trade; Images database: a collection of scanned documents, maps, and illustrations; African Names database: identifies over 67,000 Africans aboard slave ships, using name, age, gender, origin, and place of embarkation.