The African American Journey
Slavery and the Americas
Under the auspices of UNESCO, this project is one of the first international efforts to document, preserve, and digitize original archival materials and finding aids of the international trade in slaves during the 18th and 19th centuries. So far, the following countries have agreed to participate in the project: Angola, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haïti, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938:
This collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African American slaves in the American colonies and the United States.
This electronic exhibit focuses on the depictions of slaves in Confederate currency. It is important to remember that these images were created by those who institutionalized and worked to preserve slavery, and they do not necessarily portray the slaves as they viewed themselves and their condition.