Introduction to U.S. History: Slavery in America (GALE)

Introduction to U.S. History: Slavery in America is a digital collection of over 600 documents in 75,000 pages selected by Vernon Burton and Troy Smith from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and drawn from the Sabin collection and other Gale sources. This project documents key aspects of the history of slavery in America from its origins in Africa to its abolition, including materials on the slave trade, plantation life, emancipation, pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments, the religious views on slavery, etc.

In addition to contextual essays and highlighted documents regarding the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, the Secession, and the Fifteenth Amendment, this digital archive provides access to a wide variety of documents: personal narratives, pamphlets, addresses, political speeches, monographs, sermons, plays, songs, as well as poetic and fictional works published between the 17th and late 19th centuries.

This project is made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through Library Access Funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, Governor.