Africana Studies Research Guide

A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.

Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907, Library of Congress

366 digitized posters representing a variety of social, political, and cultural issues, including public health, education, liberation and independence, political campaigns, the anti-apartheid movement, Biafra, Darfur, economics, art, publishing, and music.

Including African-American Pamphlet Collection, African-American Sheet Music, Frederick Douglass Papers, Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, Southern Black Churches texts, First-Person Narratives of the American South, and more...

Interviews with over 2,300 former slaves conducted by FDR-sponsored researchers between 1936-1938 on issues including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief

Over 1300 non-fiction published works of leading African Americans from 1656-2006, including essays, speeches, interviews, journal articles, letters, biographical essays, and monographs

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Materials documenting black life and the history & culture of peoples of African descent.

Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes subjects like education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.

Includes historical sources on the history of human societies in Africa.

Provides texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Over 1,500 encyclopedia entries chronicling signficant events, places, and people. Includes full-text transcripts of speeches and other primary source documents dating back to the 18th century.

Contains "digitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings that Warren compiled for each of his interviewees as well as print materials related to the project. All of the print materials appear on the website in two versions: an image of the original document which is not searchable and a re-transcribed document which is searchable."

Websites and online databases collected by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Aboliton

Documents on runaway slaves and maroon societies in Haiti