LibGuides: Subject Guides for Websites: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES (American Studies)

African-American Studies: Web Guide
* http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/afam/guide/
* eCUIP: Digital Library Project of the Chicago Public School/ University of Chicago Internet Project
* .edu
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Provides an index of links to selected Websites by subject areas Reference, General, Arts, History, Literature, People, African Americans in the Military, Martin Luther King, Jr., Sojourner Truth, and Places.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - African American
A Library of Congress Website.
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - Virtual Treasures
* http://www.howard.edu/msrc/treasures.html
* Howard University
* .edu
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Virtual Treasures showcases some of MSRC’s most prized possessions. It represents only a sampling of artifacts, rare documents and illustrations from various collections at the Center: suggestive of the breadth and complexity of MSRC’s holdings and just enough to invite you to come in and see more. Since many of our older collections are related to slavery, the abolitionist movement, and the Civil War and Reconstruction, Virtual Treasures begins with a selection of items documenting this period in our history.
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• http://www.slavevoyages.org/
• Emory University
• .org
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Provides access to a comprehensive database of statistics, primary source material, essays, maps, and instructional material on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1514-1866

Last update: 8/11/2021

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