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Slavery in America
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
- Over a hundred pamphlets and books published between 1772 and 1889, including an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.
- From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection 1822-1909
- 396 pamphlets by African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. From the Library of Congress' Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
- More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Subject Guide
Natalie Borisovets
Subjects: American Studies,
Communication,
Criminal Justice,
History - Global & Eurasian,
History - North America,
Journalism & Media Studies,
Latin American & Caribbean Studies,
Literatures in English,
New Jerseyana,
Political Science,
Social Work,
Spanish & Portuguese Studies,
Women's & Gender Studies