CMU LibGuides: History: 79-200: Introduction to Historical Research & Writing: The Slave Experience: Primary Sources

Primary Sources - North America and the United States

The University of Pittsburgh has a fantastic Latin American collection-see Latin American Resources @ Pitt: Eduardo Lozano Latin American Collection.

Africans in the New World, 1493-1834 [microform]: from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
HUNT MFILM-3 973.0496073 A2586
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
A cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. Includes newspapers, official documents, ecological and economic data, maps, histories, travel accounts, literature, poetry, musical expressions, and artifacts. dLOC now provides access to 2,783,922 pages of content related to the Caribbean.
Latin American Travelogues
A digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries.
Primary Sources Page: Slavery

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
Thousands of original materials related to slavery, abolition, and social justice ranging from 1490-2007.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window
All known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery, as well as every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, which includes many essays and articles in obscure, hard-to-find journals in the United States and elsewhere

Transatlantic Slave Trade
Includes documents, photographs, artwork, and maps that tell the story of the slave trade and its impact.

Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Essays and original documents relating to Empire Studies, race, class, imperialism, and colonialism, sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
Thousands of original materials related to slavery, abolition, and social justice ranging from 1490-2007.

Transatlantic Slave Trade
Includes documents, photographs, artwork, and maps that tell the story of the slave trade and its impact.