Research Guides: HIST 179A: Historical Study of the Healing Arts: Atlantic History Primary Sources

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
Searchable books, serials, manuscripts, court records, and reference publications. Access available for parts 1-4: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, The Institution of Slavery, and The Age of Emancipation.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
Collection of digitized documents, maps, and essays concerning the Atlantic slave trade, primarily from British and North American libraries. Includes 18th and 19th-century court records from Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, and North Carolina.

id="s-lg-content-6816393">Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record class="s-lg-link-desc" id="s-lg-link-desc-6816393">A collection of images of the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

id="s-lg-content-6816390">Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 class="s-lg-link-desc" id="s-lg-link-desc-6816390">From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.

id="s-lg-content-6816392">Digital Library on American Slavery class="s-lg-link-desc" id="s-lg-link-desc-6816392">Detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites, extracted from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among others.

id="s-lg-content-6816391">Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database class="s-lg-link-desc" id="s-lg-link-desc-6816391">Information and statistics on slave voyages and supplementary files of African Names of people aboard the ships.

id="s-lg-content-9478190">Sydney Howard Gay’s "Record of Fugitives" class="s-lg-link-desc" id="s-lg-link-desc-9478190">In 1855 and 1856, Sydney Howard Gay, the editor of the weekly abolitionist publication, the National Anti-Slavery Standard and a key operative in the underground railroad in New York City, decided for unknown reasons to meticulously record the arrival of fugitive slaves at his office. This website reproduces the Record of Fugitives, both in high resolution images of all of its pages and in a searchable transcript.

id="s-lg-content-27449951">First Blacks in the Americas class="s-lg-link-desc" id="s-lg-link-desc-27449951">A digital resource to teach and learn about the very early years of the arrival of free and enslaved blacks to the New World before and after the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The site was developed by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute (CUNY DSI) at the City College of New York.

HIST 179A: Historical Study of the Healing Arts

Slavery and the Slave Trade

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