United States History - Primary Resources

The Avalon Project at Yale University

New York Public Library Digital Gallery - Several thousand items ranging from historical documents and rare visual materials to contemporary photo-journalism, relating to the entirety of African American history from the 16th century to the present; selected in the course of developing the NYPL web site "African American Migration Experience."

Colonization Society 1817

Classics on American Slavery

Avalon Project at Yale University

Royal Museums Greenwich
National Maritime Museum

Michigan State University Libraries
Digital Repository

North Carolina Historic Sites

The Avalon Project
Yale University

Speech by Frederick Douglass at the Library of Congress Web site is a tribute to John Brown, a radical abolitionist which Virginia authorities hung.

Frederick Law Olmsted 1856

Little Liberia (known as Ethiope, then Liberia in the 1800s) was a seafaring community of free people of color in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The New York Public Library

"If'n you wants to know what unhappiness means," states John Rudd, a former slave whose mother and brother were sold away, "jess'n you stand on the slave block and hear the auctioneer's voice selling you away from the folk you love."

The Slave Trade and Abolitionist Movement

Harvard University