LibGuides: Black Lives Matter: The African American Experience: Slavery

Slavery

Did African-American Slaves Rebel?
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Originally posted on The Root
Map of White Supremacy Mob Violence, 1835 - 1964
The lynchings and riots to enforce racial superiority in the US
Racial Terror Lynchings: 1877-1950
Interactive map. Lynching in America.
Slave Rebellions
History Channel
Timeline: Slavery & the Making of America
PBS
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
U of Virginia
Underground Railroad: History
National Parks Service

Slavery: Primary Sources

Collections matching "Slavery"
NY Public Library Digital Collections
Digital Library on American Slavery
UNC Greensboro. The Digital Library on American Slavery is an expanding resource compiling various independent online collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface. Although the current focus of DLAS is sources associated with North Carolina, there is considerable data contained herein relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C., including detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.
Freedom on the Move
A work in progress, eventually the database will compile all North American slave runaway ads and make them available for statistical, geographical, textual, and other forms of analysis.
Hear the Voices of Americans Born in Slavery: The Library of Congress Features 23 Audio Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People (1932-75)
OpenCulture
North American Slave Narratives
Documenting the American South. Books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
Slave Voyages
This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved laborers to build the cities and extract the resources of the Americas. They forced millions of mostly unnamed Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, and from one part of the Americas to another. Analyze these slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations to see the dispersal in action.
Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories
Library of Congress.
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The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond. Library of Congress.

Juneteenth

Juneteenth Resources
National Museum of African American History & Culture (a Smithsonian museum)
The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth
National Museum of African American History and Culture