Slavery in American History 

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• American Memory: Born in Slavery
  "More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves."
• American Memory: From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
  "396 pamphlets ... published from 1822 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics."
• American Memory: Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
  "just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States."
• American Memory: Voices from the Days of Slavery
  "The almost seven hours of recorded interviews .... Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom."
• Africans in America (1450-1865)
  "America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide."
• Digital History: Guided Readings: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery
  Selections from an online textbook.
• Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
  Created by the NY Public Library and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture "To mark the United Nations International Year to Commenorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (2004). Requires Flash.
• North American Slave Narratives
  "Books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries."
• Slavery and the Making of America
  A timeline from the companion website to the PBS series.
• Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
  "Hundreds of bound volumes of pamphlets, documenting all aspects of the War-social, political, and religious."
• Slavery in America
  "The tragedy of slavery in America is an undeniably influential part of American history. These sites provide all the historic details, as well as a better understanding of how this practice affected (and continues to affect) the social and political fabric of the country." A collection of links from the 'Finding Dulcinea' project.
• Slavery in New York
  An online exhibit about slavery in New York State from the 1600s to 1827 (when it was legally abolished in the state).
• The Underground Railroad
  A virtual journey along the Underground Railroad, from National Geographic.

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