Selected Slave Narratives
The Slave's Narrative by ISBN: 128052538XPublication Date: 1990Chapter on slave narratives relating to religion. Bibliography leads to published slave narratives from 1760-1865.
Afro-American Religious History by ISBN: 0822305917Publication Date: 1985Includes early narratives on topics such as Ibo, Obi in Jamaica, witchcraft, and conversion in the Carolinas. Available online through HathiTrust.
New Iberian World by ISBN: 9780812910704Publication Date: 1984-05-12Spanish documents excerpted and translated into English. Online via hathiTrust. Index in last volume. Vol. 2 is on Caribbean.
Selected Primary Documents
- The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America bySearch cabildos within all vols (vol. 2)
Resources
- Documenting the American SouthDocuments the religious experiences of African Americans during slavery. Includes links to religious content in slave narratives.
- Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on key aspects of the history of slavery. The African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. Case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
- Slavery and Anti-Slavery This link opens in a new windowBooks and pamphlets, US Supreme Court records, newspapers and periodicals, manuscripts, and reference materials for the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowGood starting point for primary sources Africa and religion or religious influences i
- American History, 1493-1945 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on slavery and religion and various regions.
- Sabin Americana This link opens in a new windowBooks, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, through the early 1900s. Original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, etc.
- Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences, predominantly from the British Library. Secondary resources include scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
- Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new windowDigital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. History, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies, etc.
- British Periodicals This link opens in a new windowPeriodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
- EEBO - Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowDigital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new windowDigital images of books published during the 18th Century in the areas of history, geography, social sciences, religion and philosophy, general reference, fine arts, literature and language, law, medicine, science and technology.
- Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new windowArchive of rare historical journals that examine a variety of topical issues such as colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineMonographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and statistics.
- Hein OnlineEarly publications and commentary on laws imposed in various countries (e.g., treatment of slaves), conditions, cases.
- Confidential Print: Latin America This link opens in a new window
Papers of the British Foreign and Colonial Offices, 1833-1969. Documents include dispatches, telegrams, investigative reports and treaties. Revolutions, political movements, railway development, the Panama Canal, the slave trade, immigration, the Vargas dictatorship in Brazil, indigenous relations.
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life - A Visual RecordIncludes maps and historic images (by category) and a searchable database.
- European Views of the Americas This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750 from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. Covers the history of European exploration and portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; natural disasters, disease outbreaks, slavery, etc.
- African American Experience This link opens in a new windowArticles, audio clips, images, primary source documents, maps, monographs, and government documents covering all aspects of the African American experience.
