Library services update
- COVID-19, Library reopening, books, articles, Interlibrary Loan
Secondary Sources
reference (companions and subject encyclopedias)
- American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford)
- Black Women in America
- Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
- Oxford Companion to United States History
bibliographies
- Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History: Slavery and Abolition of Slavery. (scroll down on this page)
Books
- Search Omni for items at Laurier (and other Omni libraries in non-COVID times)
- slaves, slavery, states (gets both united and southern), antislavery, "slave trade", "underground railroad"
- possible limiters: date (e.g, 1970-current), language, adding the word "history"
- instructions on how to search
- Emergency access to digitized versions of Laurier print books
- you still need to login even if you go through the Laurier Library link
eBooks
While Omni contains a catalogue record (author, title, etc.) of our eBooks, an Omni search does not search the full text of each book. Instead, you need to visit and search the various sites where our eBooks are stored. Remember to note which field you are searching by default, and change to "all text" or "full text"
- ACLS Humanities E-Book
- doab: directory of open access books
- eBook Academic Collection (proximity n#)
- eDuke Books
- Proquest Ebook Central
- Scholars Portal Books
- University Press Scholarship Online
- see also
Articles
- Search Omni for your topic. Refine your results at the left:
- "Available online"
- "Articles"
Or, you could narrow down your search by using a more specialized database, in particular those that index older content
- America: History and Life
- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
- JSTOR (as with ebooks, search the entire contents of many journals, not just the citation/subjects)
the following are secondary sources, but depending on the context, could also be primary sources. limiting by date can help isolate primary (e.g, 1800-1875) vs secondary (e.g, 1960
Journals and Magazines
- 19th Century Masterfile (magazines, links to some full text)
- JSTOR (journals, as with ebooks, search the entire contents of many journals, not just the citation/subjects)
- Periodicals Archive Online (covers 1802-)
Newspapers
- Globe and Mail (1844-
- New York Times (1851-)
- Times (1785-)
Legal Sources
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (1774-1875)
- Nexis Uni
- Choose "Federal and State Cases" from the subject menu, enter keywords
- Slavery, race, and the American legal system, 1700-1872 (print, 16 volumes at UW) includes reprints of rare pamphlets regarding American legal and social history related to slavery
Primary Sources
- search Omni or "slavery" or "slave trade" and one of these terms
- COVID: make sure to limit to "Available Online"
- sources, legislation, interviews, personal narratives, statistics, diaries, correspondence, biography, archives
- e.g., "slave narratives" = From bondage to belonging : the Worcester slave narratives (print)
- e.g., "slave sources" = Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America (print)
Digitized
There are dozens of sites created by organizations that contain digitized copies of sources. Every site is different, and has different search and browse capabilities. To use these sites:
- Locate the "about" page to understand the scope of the content
- look for groups of information beneath a label, e.g., subjects, topics, genre, theme, etc.
- look for the site search function. If not, google the site, e.g., abolition: site:ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/
- look for copyright/usage information. Most will allow for educational use, with attribution
- Antislavery Collection, 1725-1911 (University of Massachusetts)
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
- Black Thought and Culture (Library subscription)
- Calvin Shedd Papers: The Civil War in Florida (University of Miami)
- The Civil War: Women and the Homefront (Duke University)
- see other Duke University Digital Collections
- Digital Library on American Slavery (UNC Greensboro)
- Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Freedom Narratives: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery (Smithsonian)
- Geography of Slavery in Virginia (University of Virginia)
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition - Documents (Yale University)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Abraham Lincoln Papers
- African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
- Frederick Douglass Papers
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
- Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818–1907
- Print and Photographs
- Selected Civil War Photographs at the Library of Congress
- Slaves and the Courts
- Voices from the Days of Slavery (audio, no transcripts)
- Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery (New York Historical Society)
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (Library subscription)
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Library subscription)
- North Caroline Runaway Slave Advertisements (UNC Greensboro)
- Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony (Patricia Click, University of Virginia)
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University)
- Slavery and Justice: Depository of Historical Documents (Brown University)
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice (Library subscription)
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (University of Virginia)
- Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia)
- Voyage of the Echo: The Trials of an Illegal Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship (Johns Hopkins University)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Library subscription)
- Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 (Indiana University)