Encyclopedias and dictionaries, chronologies and atlases
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences 2001
also in print in the Reference colleciton 300.3 S638i
good for "big picture" concepts like Slavery, Freedom etc
African Americans and Slavery
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez, 2 vols, 1997
Reference collection 306.36203 R696h
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade : a database on CD-ROM, ed. by David Eltis. 1999
PC 334 behid the Information desk
A historical guide to world slavery, edited by Seymour Drescher. 1998
Reference collection 306.362 D773h
Chronology of world slavery, J. P Rodriguez. 1999
Reference collection 306.362 R696c
A companion to African American history, ed. A. Hornsby, 2005
Reference collection 973.0496073 H8163c
Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience, ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah, 1999
Reference collection 909.0496003 A647a
Historical and cultural atlas of African Americans, Molefi K. Asante, 1991
Reference collection 973.0496073 A798h
Encyclopedia of Black America, W. Augustus Low, 1981
Reference collection 973.049607303 L912e
Black American reference book, M. M Smythe, 1977
Reference collection 325.73 B627
Spartacus encyclopedia - Slavery (not very scholarly but an adequate start)
Enlightenment, 18th and 19th centuries
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. 2 vols. ed. M. Delon. 2001
Reference collection 940.2503 D361d.W
Black, J. Dictionary of eighteenth century world history. 1994
Reference collection 909.703 B627d
United States
General American historical dictionaries and encyclopedias will be
found in the Reference Collection at 973.03 eg
Dictionary of American history, Thomas L. Purvis, 1995
Reference collection 973.03 P986d
The Encyclopedia of colonial and revolutionary America, ed. John Mack Faragher
Reference collection 973.03 F219e
Encyclopedia of the North American colonies, ed. Jacob Ernest Cooke. 3 vols. 1993
Reference collection 970.003 C772e
Historical dictionary of the American Revolution, Terry M. Mays, 1999
Reference collection 973.303 M474h
Handbook of American women's history, A. F. Zophy
Reference collection 305.40973 Z88h
Encyclopedia of Southern culture, Charles Reagan Wilson, 1989
Reference collection 975.003 W747e
Historical times illustrated encyclopedia of the Civil War, ed. Patricia L. Faust, 1991
Reference collection 973.703 H673 1991
Routledge atlas of American history, Martin Gilbert, 5th ed. 2006
Reference collection 911.73 G465r
Atlas for the American Civil War, West Point, 1986
Reference collection oversize 973.7 A881
Latin America
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture, ed B. A. Tenenbaum, 5 vols., 1996
Reference collection 980.003 T292e
Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean, ed. S. Collier, 1992.r
Reference collection 980.003 C178.2
Africa
Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara, ed. J. Middleton, 4 vols, 1997.
Reference collection 967.003 M628e
Finding books in the catalogue
The library has good resources for this topic.
look in the catalogue browsing subject headings such as:
Slavery....browse geographical locations such as Africa, United States, Southern states, Brazil etc
Antislavery movements United States History 19th century
Abolitionists United States History 19th century
Antislavery movements United States History 19th century
Slave insurrections Southern States History 19th century
Slavery Social aspects United States History
Slavery Economic aspects
Women slaves
Women abolitionists United States
Plantation life Southern states
Slaves Emancipation
These terms can also be used in guided keyword seaches, into which
you can incorporate other keywords.
Finding journal articles -
databases and bibliographies
DO NOT USE Historical Abstracts - does not include USA.
Some databases have full text but, if not, search for the journal title in the catalogue and you may find that we have it in print or online.
Academic OneFile 1980-
Broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.
Academic Search Premier
Includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals.
JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
Project Muse Full text collection of journals from US university presses from the mid-1990s onwards.
You can even search by LC subject, same as you do in the catalogue
America: History and Life is available in print for 1964- 2002
Reference collection 973.05 A512
Bibliographies are published lists of reference to books and/or journals articles up until a specific date.
They can be useful for finding older references.
Miller, Joseph C. Slavery and slaving in world history : a bibliography. 2 vols. 1998
Reference collection 306.362016 M648sl
on order for Reference Collection
Black Slavery in the Americas: An Interdisciplinary Bibliography,
1865-1980, J. D. Smith
Afro-American history: a bibliography, D. L. Smith, 1974
Reference collection 325.73 S645a
Reference collection 988.30016 P946g
Guiana Maroons: a historical and bibliographical introduction, R. Price. 1976
Web Sites
Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007
A portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
General and gateway sites - explore these!
WWW-VL: HISTORY: UNITED STATES
Library of Congress - American memory.
Browse collections by topic to locate digitised sources, images etc. or you can even search by keywords.
eg
Born in slavery : slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1938.
This site is a collection of over 2,500 first person accounts of slavery
and 500 photographs of former slaves with links to their corresponding
narrative.
Richard Jensen's Scholars' guide to the WWW - especially the sections on
History: USA African-American
and sections 11 - Colonial, Early national, 12 - 1800-1850s, 15 - Civil War Era,
26 - South,
29 - Women
Best of history websites - U.S. History
African American history and Slavery
For week 10
William G. Thomas, III and Edward L. Ayers
The differences slavery made: an close analysis of two American communities
and
Valley of the shadow: two American communities in the Civil War
Amistad
Bibliographical essay on Slavery from the Digital history website.
Africa south of the Sahara - Slavery
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance
H-Slavery - the history of slavery discussion network.
H-African-American studies
Internet Afican sourcebook
Exploring a common past : researching and interpreting the underground
railroad
Aspects of US History
Peopling North America - population and movements, especially sections 3, 4 and 5.
National Park Service Civil War Web Site
Specific states and regions
Virginia Historical Society
Afro-Louisiana history and genealogy 1719-1820
This site provides access to a searchable database of resources relating
to slavery in Louisiana between 1719-1820.
Documenting the American South from the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Women in America 1820-1842 - travellers accounts, See especially Slaves and free blacks
H-LatAm an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History.
H-Portugal - a forum for the discussion of issues, new and old, related to the study of
Portuguese history and empire.
Empires and commodities
British Empire (BBC)
The World Sugar History Newsletter is a biannnual newsletter devoted to
the publication of information concerning the history of the sugar
industry.
Trade Products in Early Modern History
WWW sites containing primary sources
Slavery, abolition and social justice, 1490-2007
A portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period 1490-2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world.
Avalon Project from the Yale Law School
African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History
Frederick Douglass papers
The narrative of Sojourner Truth
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano
UNESCO Slave trade archives
Archive of early American images is drawn entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library, located at Brown University since 1901. The Library houses one of the world’s outstanding collections of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and South, from 1492 to ca. 1825.
Documenting the American South
especially North American Slave Narratives
The nineteenth century in print : the making of America in books and
periodicals Select Books and from there you can browse subjects....abolitionists,
afro-americans, slavery etc.
British library -
Caribbean views - Over 1000 images, maps and texts from the 18th and
19th centuries reveal contrasting experiences of life in the former
British colonies.
Caribbean Views: Personal Selections by Mike Phillips
From the British Library. Mike Phillips, an author and historian born in Guyana, comments on their large British West Indies collection.
There are illustrations, maps, and pages of text from books written during the period of colonization, all with explanations and responses from Phillips.
Primary Sources
Some are on the WWW (above), but additional printed primary sources can be found in the library catalogue by adding the word SOURCES to your search
eg
Antislavery movements United States History 19th century Sources.
Abolitionists United States History 19th century Sources
Slave-trade History Sources
Plantation life Sources
These subject headings may also be useful:
Slavery Early work to 1800
Slaves' writings
Contemporary articles from the 18th and 19th centuries can also be found via Periodicals index online, which indexes journals from about 1800. Some linked full text is available Periodicals archive online, but also check our library catalogue for print holdings. Some journals may be at the State Library.
Newspapers are also useful as sources of contemporary comment on events
We also hold older issues of the New York Times on microfilm.
MICROFILM PER 3 New York Times 1857- and index Ref 05 N53y
The view from London can be read in The Times 1789-
MICROFILM PER 54 which has an index:
Palmer's index to The Times on CD-ROM 1790 - 1905
Machine 331 (behind the information desk)
The State library also offers the Times digital archive, 1785-1985 - electronic full text.
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