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Online Resources The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress) This online exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. It is a sampler of the kinds of materials and themes covered by that publication and the Library's collections. The exhibit covers four areas —Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA— of the many covered by the Mosaic. The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship This project of the American Memory showcases more than 240 items, including books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings from the African American collections of the Library of Congress. African-American Pamphlets Collection (Library of Congress) The African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1880 - 1920, contains 351 rare pamphlets offering insight into attitudes and ideas of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the First World War. The website also includes a timeline, bibliography and The Progress of a People, a special presentation of the African-American Pamphlet Collections. Africans in America Based on the PBS series, this website documents America's journey through slavery in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy A database on the approximately 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries, including African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners, and slave testimonials and emancipations. Created by Dr. Gwendolyn Hall, a professor emerita of history at Rutgers University. American Abolitionism Developed by faculty members and graduate students at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, this project offers a number of resources for those interested in studying the American Abolitionist Movement. The Amistad Page The Gilder Lehrman Center's guide to online resources concerning the Amistad case. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record The hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public. A project of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and The Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives A New Deal Network feature, including seventeen selected interviews, classroom activities, online resources, and an introductory essay which considers the ex-slave interviews of the Federal Writers' Project and the construction of folk identity in Depression-era America. Beneath the Underground Railroad: the Flight to Freedom The Underground Railroad, as traditionally understood, was a loose organization of abolitionists, anti-slavery societies, and vigilance committees based in the Northern states that provided aid to escaped slaves once they had escaped the Southern slave states. The Underground Railroad, however, was only able to offer very limited support to fleeing slaves while they were still in the South. While still in the South, fleeing slaves had to operate beneath the Underground Railroad, and rely on their own sources of aid and information to escape, with only the hope of further assistance once in the free states. This story of slave flight, and how the geography, laws, and communities of Maryland as a slave state aided or hindered escape, is the story Beneath the Underground: the Flight to Freedom seeks to reclaim. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project Born in Slavery contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Documenting the American South A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. It is sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the texts come primarily from its Southern holdings. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and the love of American history through the creation and support of seminars and enrichment for teachers; publications and traveling exhibitions for the general public and for schools; lectures by historians; electronic media projects for scholars and the public; history-centered high schools and Saturday academies for New York City students; research centers at universities and other institutions; and fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection and other archives of American History. International Centre for the History of Slavery The International Centre for the History of Slavery (ICHOS), established in 1998 by the University of Nottingham Department of Classics, aims to provide a framework to support the study of slavery and similar institutions in a range of societies including Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Early Modern and Modern New World. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center educates the public about the historic struggle to abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people. The Freedom Center teaches lessons of courage and cooperation from Underground Railroad history to promote collaborative learning, dialogue, and action in order to inspire today's freedom movements. National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program The National Park Service is implementing a national Underground Railroad program to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories. The Network will also serve to facilitate communication and networking between researchers and interested parties, and aid in the development of statewide organizations for preserving and researching Underground Railroad sites. Remembering Slavery Web Site for the book and audiocassette Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven Miller. The site, created by the Smithsonian Institution, has curriculum materials and a fine selection of audio files. "The Slave Route" Project At the proposal of Haiti and some African countries, the General Conference of UNESCO approved at its 27th Session in 1993 the implementation of the "The Slave Route" Project (Resolution 27 C/3.13). The project was officially launched during the First Session of the International Scientific Committee of the Slave Route in September 1994 in Ouidah (Benin), one of the former pivots of the Slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea. The official documents of Ouidah were brought out in book form by UNESCO Publishing in 1998 under the title "From Chains to Bonds: the Slave Trade Revisited". Slavery & Abolition Slavery & Abolition, edited by Gad Heuman, is the only journal devoted in its entirety to a discussion of the demographic, socio-economic, historical and psychological aspects of human bondage from the ancient period to the present. It is also concerned with the dismantling of the slave systems and with the legacy of slavery. Details about the journal may be found at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0144039x.asp. Slavery and Slavery-Like Practices, Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota This section of the Human Rights Library at the University of Minnesota contains international documents on the subject of slavery and the slave trade. Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study This National Park Service 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. United States Colored Troops Institute The United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History and Family Research at Hartwick College is an educational institute whose mission is to promote and encourage original historical and genealogical research about the 200,000 colored men and their 7,000 white officers who comprised the US Colored Troops during the American Civil War. The Valley of the Shadow The Valley of the Shadow is an electronic archive of two communities in the American Civil War—Augusta County, Va. and Franklin Co., Pa. The Valley Web site includes searchable newspapers, population census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slaveowner census data, and tax records. The Valley Web site also contains letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters.