Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

"This Slavery collection provides a unique means for students to comprehend the form of historical investigation by using images of the documents, manuscripts and images - not typed and transcribed renditions. The online site is exceptionally easy to navigate allowing the user to move easily from the documents to interpretive essays to images to bibliography, and I was startled to see the amount of documentation that Adam Matthew has managed to include. The site will be an asset to faculty who teach world history, U.S. history, British history, and Latin American history. Furthermore, the site will also prove useful to those of us researching the African Diaspora in the greater Atlantic world. I also suspect that faculty in African-American Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology will be glad to see the title added to their collections."

Professor Rachel O'Toole, Department of History, UC Irvine

This resource is designed as an important 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. Close attention is being given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

For the latest additions to the Slavery Portal, please see our newsletter (PDF document):

Slavery Portal Update Newsletter - Spring 2010

The project offers:

•  High quality greyscale images of many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images not available elsewhere. Some illustrative content is provided in full colour.

•  A powerful portal with links to other significant online sources approved by leading scholars. These international sites are a very important aspect of this resource.

•  A series of contextual essays by leading authorities from around the world. Each essay will have hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses.

It is designed for both teaching and research use.

Material added between 2008 and 2010 focuses on:

• 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 Pennsylvania

• Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade