奴隶、奴隶制废除与社会公平（Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007） 是研究奴隶制与奴隶制废除的重要门户，时间覆盖1490－2007年, 资料来源于大西洋两岸的各大图书馆与档案馆，主要内容包括奴隶制种类，奴隶制遗产，社会公平透视，以及奴隶制的持续存在等。提供了数万个原始手稿，小册子，图书，绘画，地图与图像等的原始图像文件，这些资料在其他地方均无法得到。同时提供一系列来自全球的主流权威撰写的论文。2008－2009年增加的内容将聚焦于：教育与社会公平，肯塔基州的Day Law，巴西，非洲要塞与黄金海岸，纽约与费城的城市奴隶制，最高法院裁决的奴隶案件，奴隶证词，宾夕法尼亚州的地下铁路，大西洋两岸的奴隶经验歌曲，桑给巴尔与印度洋奴隶贸易，早期美洲奴隶制，抵抗与反叛等。
An essential resource for the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning over five centuries.
Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world, covering an extensive time period from 1490. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
The resource offers in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.
Period Covered
- 1490 - 2007
Highlights
- African forts and the Gold Coast
- Brazil
- Education and Social Justice
- The Day Law in Kentucky
- Family Papers, Correspondence, Bills and Plantation Journals from the Louisianna State University
- Local court records relating to slavery for both Georgia and North Carolina
- Resistance and Revolts
- Slave cases decided in the Supreme Courts of Georgia and North Carolina
- Slave testimony
- Slavery in the Early Americas
- Songs that recall the Transatlantic Slave Experience
- Urban Slavery in New York and Philadelphia
- The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvannia
- Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
Source Archives
- Anti-Slavery International
- Berea College
- British Library
- Buxton National Historic Site, Ontario
- Duke University
- Free the Slaves
- Georgia Archives
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
- Louisiana State University
- Mariners Museum, Virginia
- Merseyside Maritime Museum
- North Carolina State Archives
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL
- The National Archives, Kew
- University of New Orleans
- Wilberforce House, Hull
Material Types
- Original manuscripts
- Pamphlets
- Books
- Paintings
- Maps
- Images
Subjects
- Slavery in the Early Americas
- African Coast
- The Middle Passage
- Slavery and Agriculture
- Urban and Domestic Slavery
- Resistance and Revolts
- Underground Railroad
- The Abolition movement and the Slavery Debate
- Legislation: Enactment and Enforcement
- Freed Slaves, Freedmen and Free Black Settlements
- Education
- Slavery and the Islamic World
- Varieties of Slave Experience
- The Legacy of Slavery and Slavery Today