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September 01, 2004LOC Releases Final for Frederick Douglass Papers
The Library of Congress has announced the final release of the Frederick Douglass Papers. They're available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ . The final count for the collection is about 7,400 items relating to Douglass' life, including correspondence, speeches, articles, papers, and scrapbooks....
Continue reading "LOC Releases Final for Frederick Douglass Papers" » February 26, 2003Slavery Suits from Washington University in Saint Louis
The St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project at http://stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/index.cfm is now offering Freedom Suits, "nearly 300 legal petitions for freedom brought by or on behalf of persons of color held in slavery within the St. Louis area from 1814...
Continue reading "Slavery Suits from Washington University in Saint Louis" » May 31, 2002Digital Library About Underground Railroad Being Built
The University of Cincinnati has announced ( http://www.uc.edu/news/undrr.htm ) that they've teamed up with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to create an online digital library of documents related to the Underground Railroad. The online library will include "Underground Railroad...
Continue reading "Digital Library About Underground Railroad Being Built" » Digital Library About Underground Railroad Being Built
The University of Cincinnati has announced ( http://www.uc.edu/news/undrr.htm ) that they've teamed up with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to create an online digital library of documents related to the Underground Railroad. The online library will include "Underground Railroad...
Continue reading "Digital Library About Underground Railroad Being Built" » April 09, 2002Library of Congress Adds "Slaves and the Courts"
The Library of Congress has announced Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/ . This collection consists of about one hundred pamphlets and books documenting the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the United States and American colonies. Resources...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Adds "Slaves and the Courts"" » April 03, 2001LOC Announces Slave Narratives Collection
The LOC has announced a new collection: "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938," now available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ . The collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery, with 500 black-and-white photographs. The collection is...
Continue reading "LOC Announces Slave Narratives Collection" » January 15, 2001Dred Scott Documents Put Online
The AP is reporting ( http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010115/tc/dred_scott_inte net_1.html ) that documents related to Dred Scott's challenge of Missouri slavery law have been put online at http://www.library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott . There are 170 pages of the documents available. The site has a chronology and...
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