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    Collection
    Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division - Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Federal Writers' Project
    • Date: 2001

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  • Article
    Faces and Voices from the Presentation | Articles and Essays | Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories | Digital Collections Approximately four million Americans enslaved in the United States were freed at the conclusion of the American Civil War. The stories of a few thousand have been passed on to future generations through word of mouth, diaries, letters, records, or written transcripts of interviews. Only twenty-six audio-recorded interviews of ex-slaves have been found. This collection captures the stories of former slaves in their own...
    • Date: 1932
  • Research Guide
    Slavery in America: A Resource Guide: Introduction Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries millions of Africans were forced to become enslaved people in the American colonies. This guide provides access to Library of Congress digitized primary sources, links to related websites, and a print bibliography.
    • Date: 2019-01-17
  • Collection
    African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection "African American Perspectives" gives a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture and is primarily comprised of two collections in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division: the African American Pamphlet Collection and the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection with a date range of 1822 through 1909. Most were written by African-American authors, though some were written by others on topics of...
    • Date: 1875

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  • Web Page
    Images of African American Slavery and Freedom - Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress) Illustrations from the holdings of the Library of Congress on the subject of African American slavery and freedom
  • Book/Printed Material
    United States National Slavery Museum
    US National Slavery Museum | National Slavery Museum Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     Presents National Slavery Museum, including information of the Museum's founder, mission, timeline, events and symposium. Provides information regarding slavery in America and its impact on the nation's institutions and individuals including little known facts about slaves and slavery.
    • Contributor: National Slavery Museum (U.S.)
    • Date: 2002
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Slavery.
    • Contributor: Sayre, E. K.
    • Date: 1824-04-21

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  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Slavery still exists! : The Anti-Slavery Society still exists! 1 print ; (poster format)
    • Contributor: Anti-Slavery Society (Great Britain)
    • Date: 1965
  • Book/Printed Material
    American slavery. Caption title. Signed on p. 10: Lewis Tappan. Date of imprint inferred from text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has pencilled inscription on p. 1: Pease, Nathaniel. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: [YA 16954]. Purchase, 1908 (DLC #115490).
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Tappan, Lewis
    • Date: 1852-01-01

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  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    [Slavery (Indian)]
    • Contributor: Fulgenzi, Mary A. - Raines, Lester
    • Date: 1936-06-01

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  • Book/Printed Material
    American slavery distinguished from the slavery of English theorists, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site. Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm
    • Contributor: Seabury, Samuel
    • Date: 1861
  • Book/Printed Material
    Chronology of world slavery Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available "This work establishes the fact that slavery has existed since ancient times and tries to dispel the myth that slaves are only people of color. Designed to complement the two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1997), it is much more than a mere chronology of world slavery. The work in divided into six geographical sections (ancient world, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the...
    • Contributor: Patterson, Orlando - Rodriguez, Junius P.
    • Date: 1999
  • Book/Printed Material
    Yale, slavery & abolition Yale University and its legacy.
    Yale, slavery, and abolition Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available     In conjunction with the 300th anniversary of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Amistad Committee released an essay by Antony Dugdale, J.J. Fueser, and J. Celso de Castro Alves describing the history of the relationship between the university and slavery. The website also presents a bibliography, timeline, map, and other information resources.
    • Contributor: Dugdale, Antony - Amistad Committee - Alves, J. Celso De Castro - Fueser, J. J.
    • Date: 2004
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Now ready - American slavery justified 1 print (text) : letterpress. | Advertisement and short notice for "American slavery distinguished from the slavery of English theorists, and justified by the law of Nature" by Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D. and published by Mason Brothers, New York.
    • Contributor: Seabury, Samuel
    • Date: 1861-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    American war and American slavery. Delivered at an anti-slavery meeting under the auspices of the Union and Emancipation Society. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
    • Contributor: Parker, Joseph - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863-01-01

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  • Film, Video
    Slavery by another name Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
    • Contributor: PBS Distribution (Firm) - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Pollard, Sam - Bernard, Sheila Curran - Pollard, Jason L. - Tpt National Productions - Two Dollars and a Dream (Firm) - Bacon, Michael - Fishburne, Laurence - Blackmon, Douglas A.
    • Date: 2012
  • Newspaper
    Anti-Slavery Bugle (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861 digitized content available
    • Contributor: Western Anti-Slavery Society - Jones, Benjamin Smith - Johnson, Oliver - Jones, J. Elizabeth (Jane Elizabeth) - Ohio American Antislavery Society - Robinson, Marius Racine
    • Date: 1845
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Slavery as it exists in America. Slavery as it exists in England 1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 44.8 x 27 cm. (image) | A challenge to the Northern abolitionist view of the institution of slavery, favorably contrasting the living conditions of American slaves (above) with the lot of the industrial poor in England (below). The first scene is impossibly naive: Southern slaves dance and play as four gentlemen--two Northerners and two Southerners--observe. First...
    • Contributor: Haven, John
    • Date: 1850-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Slavery. Freedom 1 print : lithograph, color. | "Two contrasted scenes divided by a huge cask in which stands, full-face, an obese and repulsive preacher with a heavy jowl, pig's eyes, and a thatch of hair over a low forehead..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1832-01-01
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    "German slavery" 1item. | Officer forcing man to work in munition factory at gunpoint.
    • Contributor: Raemaekers, Louis
    • Date: 1917-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Slavery sanctioned by the Bible: the first part of a general treatise on the slavery question. Cover title: Slavery sanctioned by the Bible: a tract for northern Christians. Also available in digital form.
    • Contributor: African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Jones, John Richter - Jones, Wm. Hemphric
    • Date: 1861-01-01

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  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    (?) Slavery is dead (?) 1 print : wood engraving ; page 40 x 27 cm. | Two illustrations showing: enslaved man being sold as punishment for crime, before Emancipation Proclamation; and an African-American man being whipped as punishment for crime in 1866.
    • Contributor: Nast, Thomas
    • Date: 1867-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Religious organizations, and slavery. Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Cover title. "Extract from a Scriptural argument, in favor of withdrawing fellowship from churches ... tolerating slaveholding ... by Rev. Silas M'Keen": p. [30]-32. Also available in digital form. LAC tnb 2020-10-06 update (1 card)
    • Contributor: Brown, William B. (William Bryant) - McKeen, Silas - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1850
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    France. Britain. Freedom. Slavery 1 print : engraving. | "A design in two compartments. On the left the triumph of Necker in a land of 'Freedom', in the other that of Pitt in a land of 'Slavery"..." (Source: George)
    • Date: 1789-01-01
  • Book/Printed Material
    Slavery Convention.
    Convention relative à l'esclavage/ Slavery Convention     The 1926 Slavery Convention was an agreement among member states of the League of Nations that obliged signatories to eliminate slavery, the slave trade, and forced labor in their territories. It defined slavery as the status or condition of a person over which the powers of ownership are applied; the slave trade as acts involving the capture, selling, or transport of enslaved people; and...
    • Contributor: League of Nations
    • Date: 1926-01-01
    • Resource: - 20 pages

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