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. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).

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The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress and Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse Narratives by Narrator | Volume Browse Photographs by Subject | Browse All by State Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2, 300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white ...

The Africans in America Web site is a companion to WGBH produced Africans in America, a six-hour public television series. ...

The Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse by Titles | Authors | Subjects From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 presents 397 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, published from 1824 through 1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, ...

Timeline of African American slavery in the United States, with links from each entry to source material used in the creation of the chronology.

Third Person, First Person Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library Broadside Collection, Special Collections Library, Duke University These web pages are based on the catalog of an exhibit mounted at Perkins Library, Duke University, in November and December, 1995. Some of the items described here were too large or fragile to be scanned, so images of them were not included in the ...

This study includes a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves, and alternatives for commemoration and interpretation of the significance of the phenomenon.

A comprehensive introduction to Equiano's life and work, including a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, and an extensive bibliography ...

Friends of Freedom Society Ohio Underground Railroad Association Welcome The Friends of Freedom Society, Inc. - Ohio Underground Railroad Association is a grassroots, all volunteer non-profit organization, whose sole purpose is to research, identify, document and preserve Underground Railroad sites throughout Ohio. If you are interested in Ohio's Underground Railroad, please join us as a member!

The Underground Railroad in Rochester, New York History of the Underground Railroad Slavery The Fugitive Slave Act Abolitionists and the Establishment of the Underground Railroad Function of the Underground Railroad How the Slaves Were Transported Location of Underground Railroad Stations How Many Slaves Were Helped by the Underground Railroad History of the Underground Railroad in Rochester, ...

African-American Mosaic Conflict of Abolition and Slavery Map Comparing Slave and Free States This map compares statistics on free and slave states. Issued during the presidential election campaign of 1856, it pictures famous Western explorer John C. Fremont (1813-1890), the first presidential candidate of the Republican Party, and his running mate, William L. Dayton (1807-1864). The Republican ...

Companion web site to KET's documentary on the fugitive slave movement in Kentucky ...

African American Odyssey Introduction | Overview | Object List | Search Exhibit Sections: Slavery | Free Blacks | Abolition | Civil War | Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era | WWI-Post War | The Depression-WWII | Civil Rights Era | Slavery--The Peculiar Institution Part 1: The Atlantic Slave Trade | Liberation Strategies Part 2 During the course of the slave trade, millions of Africans ...

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Chronological account of laws concerning slavery in the United States.

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About the Lucretia Coffin Mott Project About Lucretia Coffin Mott Primary Sources Editorial Board How You Can Help Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) devoted her life to the abolition of slavery, women's rights, school and prison reforms, temperance, peace, and religious tolerance. Although a major figure in the reform movements of the nineteenth-century, Mott's importance has been under-estimated ...

The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom is an exhibit which shows America in crisis and how that point in time was resolved. Slavery as an issue in America was in constant conflict with the founding Democratic principles of this nation. Slavery therefore became the ultimate test of disunity within the union of states which were already at odds in a democracy espousing freedom for its people.

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This site offers contemporary and historic information concerning Black America and the Abolitionist.

USA-project, presidents-area, Thomas Jeffersons on Slavery ...

The Menare Foundation's North Star Website The Menare Foundation, Inc. is a national Non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and restoration of Underground Railroad safe-houses and environments. The Menare Foundation, Inc. was created from historian Anthony Cohen's research on the Underground Railroad. In 1998 The Menare Foundation, Inc. sponsored The Walk to ...

Securing the Leg Irons: Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791. Slavery In Early America's Colonies-- Seeds of Servitude Rooted in The Civil Law of Rome by Charles P.M. Outwin CLICK FOR INTRODUCTION BY AUTHOR Introduction First devised during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the laws and justice system governing the institution of Negro ...

Volume Thirty-Six 1994 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61 Jason Poole I. Introduction In 1848 Michael J. Eggart spoke to the Friendly Moralist Society, an exclusive group of free, light-skinned African-American Charlestonians, about their position in ...

Welcome to our website dedicated to Prospect Place , Dresden-Trinway, Ohio. Mansion details: Builder: George Willison Adams Date: 1856 - 1857 Style: Greek Revival / Italianate Square Footage: 9500 sq/ft Ceiling Height: Main House - 14 feet / Servants Wing - 12 feet We are open for tours Sunday at 1 p.m. We have temporarily suspended other tours due to a lack of tour guides. If you would like ...

Member Login | Free Membership | MyAccount Today @ Ancestry | Thinking of Joining | Top Things to Do | Affiliate Program Read firsthand about the struggles and triumphs of life as an American slave. This collection of interviews is the most complete picture available of the African American slavery experience. Keyword: Interviewee: State: Any AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850 The Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture. Along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the ratification of Kansas' admission for free statehood, this legislation is part of the ...

This site contains materials that place the Allen Parker slave narrative from eastern North Carolina into a historical context.

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This site offers contemporary and historic information concerning Black America and the Underground Railroad.

The Underground Railroad and York County, Pennsylvania It was in York County, it is believed, where the term Underground Railroad originated. Slave owners in the pursuit of fugitives found that when they reached the Susquehanna River, the bondman disappeared as mysteriously as though the ground had swallowed him up. In their perplexity, the pursuers exclaimed, There must be an underground road ...

All about The Underground Railroad Hi and welcome to our web page! Here we hope to get any info you have on the UGRR and share what we know. Sign and report in our guest book. If you want, tell friends to come here too. Also tell where your from and how you accessed our page. But most important have fun and we hope you learn things you never knew before! My links Underground railroad routes in ...

The AFRO-AMERICAN Almanac provides an engaging and comtemplative exploration of the origins of the African in America.

Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863 - President Lincoln this document which was directed only to the states that seceded from the Union. Slaves states that remained with the Union was not affected. ...