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Websites on historical aspects of slavery in North America, particularly (but not exclusively) in the United States and the Caribbean region.
http://gem.greenwood.com/products/prod_amslav.asp
The authoritative collection of WPA slave narratives.
http://antislavery.eserver.org/
Digitized texts and resources on antislavery literature of all kinds, from the U.S. and other countries, reflecting impact of antislavery writing on development of U.S. society.
http://www.johnhorse.com/toolkit/index.htm
Guide to facts, primary and secondary sources on the slave rebellion led by Black Seminoles in Florida from 1835-1838, documenting claim it was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history.
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/DeathLiberty/
Exploration of three 19th-century events in Virginia that focused America's attention on slavery: Gabriel's Conspiracy, Nat Turner's Rebellion, and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html
Contains the text of the Supreme Court case and primary source materials from the online collections of the Library of Congress.
http://www.fortunestory.org/
The story of Fortune was an African American man enslaved in a Connecticut farming community, in Waterbury, includes curriculum materials and student activities.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/
Resource for scholars and general audiences offering historical narratives, 8,300 illustrations and more than 60 maps, with three detailed sections on U.S. slavery.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/
Collection of all narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in English up to 1920 and many related biographies, from University of North Carolina's Documenting the American South.
http://www.slavebadges.com/
Preview of and supplement to the book, Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, 1783-1865.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
Exhibit that explores the methods used by Africans and their American-born descendants to resist enslavement, as well as to demand emancipation and full participation in American society.
http://www.slavenorth.com/
Douglas Harper describes the growth, end, and consequences of slaveholding in the Northern colonies of what became the United States.
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/?article=wahl.slavery.us
Jenny B. Wahl of Carleton College describes the spread of slaveholding, its legal, social, and economic underpinnings, with graphs and tables of statistics.
http://digital.wustl.edu/d/dre/
The disposition of the case, and its infamous ruling, contributed to the tensions leading to the Civil War.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Sound recordings of former slaves describing their lives, from the Library of Congress.
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