Southern women/Everyday life ca: 1820-1880 Bibliography
Historical Text archive
Women and Slavery
Female Slaves and their families
Margaret Garner's slave testimony
Sex relations between female slaves and their masters
Retrieving african-american women's history
Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson slave letters
Slavery and Anti-slaver: A bib. of recent works by Steven Mintz
African americans in S.E. Ohio (basic resource)
Black resistance: Slavery in the U.S.
Research
U.S. Historical Documents Regarding Slavery
US Government Documents
- The Constitution of the United States of America (via CSU Chico)
- With particular attention to Article 23, and Amendments 13, 14 and 15.
- Supreme Court Decision in Dredd Scott vs. Illinois (via Cornell Law School)
- Regards escaped slaves as property, even in non-slaveholding territory.
- The Emancipation Proclamation (via the Library of Congress)
- Issued by Abraham Lincoln, made slavery a principal focus of the Civil War.
Discussions of Slavery
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My Bondage and My Freedom (from Project Gutenberg)
- by Frederick Douglass
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (via Carnegie Mellon University)
- by Frederick Douglass
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A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (from theUniversity ofVirginia)
- by Briton Hammon
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The Confessions of Nat Turner (HTML files from Holland)
- by Nat Turner
Later Documents Regarding Slavery and African American Identity
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Up from Slavery (via Wiretap)
- by Booker T. Washington
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The Souls of Black Folk (from Project Gutenberg)
- by William E. B. Du Bois)
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An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York (from theUniversity ofVirginia)
- by Jupiter Hammon
Other Sources of US Historical Documents
- The University of Oklahoma Law Center
- A Chronology of United States Historical Documents, including all the Presidential
inaugural addresses.
- Mississippi State University Historical Archives
- US Collections of Mississippi State's substantial archive of historical documents.
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