Historical Studies

Over 2300 oral histories of people born in slavery who were still alive in the 1930s.

Wrote two autobiographies, which are slave narratives.

From Project Gutenberg.

A collection of public domain slave narratives transcribed by the Federal Writer's Project and put online by Project Gutenberg.

by Harriet Anne Jacobs

Digital primary sources focusing on African American life in New York City, to support their project called the African American Migration Experience.

From the Library of Congress. Covers four topics: Colonization, Abolition, Migration, and the Federal Works Progress Administration.

From the Digital Schomburg project of the New York Public Library.

From Duke University Libraries' Digital Collections. Collection of 410 oral history interviews, taken in the 1990s, of the segregated American South from the 1890s to the 1950s.

Vast collection of digital primary sources relating to the history of the U.S. South, including slavery and slave rebellions and resistance. Includes materials relating to slavery and African diasporic history and culture in the Caribbean and Central and South America as well.

From Project Gutenberg. Includes his novel, Blake, or The Huts of America, and his non-fictional book The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States.

By ex-slave, David Walker. From Project Gutenberg.

This site focuses on sources related to and information about the movements of the African Diaspora other than the transport of slaves - in other words, actual migration and the movements of freedmen and self-liberating slaves. Strong focus on the movement of Afro-Caribbean populations into North America and how their culture contributed to the culture of North America.

Primary sources relating to the colonization of Liberia with U.S. freed slaves and free Blacks.

Analysis and primary source documents mainly from the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense.

A contemporary English translation of the 16th century Berber-Andalusi ethnographer of Africa, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, whose pen name in translation was Leo Africanus. His book describes not only North Africa (particularly Egypt) but the sub-Saharan empire of Songhai and its university city of Timbuktu.

The organization's website contains primary sources including its constitution and charter, and multiple reports.

Published in 2003. Part of South Africa's recovery from apartheid.

Records and papers of the U.S. movements to support African liberation movements.

From the U.S. Department of State.

Photographs, periodicals, collections of personal papers, historical and literary manuscripts, primary sources from the war for Cuban Independence from Spain, maps, law and governance, refugee records, the Human Rights Oral History Project, StoryCorps Historias, etc.

Multi-country, multi-lingual repository of text, image, and audio-video content from institutes in and around the Caribbean. Includes news, archival and manuscript materials, maps, art, and ephemera. Topics range from the era of colonization and slavery to the present. Sources relating to Caribbean Judaica, Voudou, and LGBTQ issues are available.

Vast collection of digital primary sources relating to the history of the U.S. South, including slavery and slave rebellions and resistance. Includes materials relating to slavery and African diasporic history and culture in the Caribbean and Central and South America as well.

Full-text travelogues (travel memoirs) from the 16th-19th centuries, written by travellers in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, including Baja California.

This site focuses on sources related to and information about the movements of the African Diaspora other than the transport of slaves - in other words, actual migration and the movements of freedmen and self-liberating slaves. Strong focus on the movement of Afro-Caribbean populations into North America and how their culture contributed to the culture of North America.

Includes collections on slavery and on riots and rebellions, as well as biographies and images.

Documentation of Afro-British history in the British National Archives.

(Formerly, Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies.) Directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University. Scanned images and documents, organized strictly by geographical area.