To find BOOKS use the Library catalog , search by subject, title, or mixed keyword.
Examples of keywords to use: slavery United States, African Americans history, slaves United States social conditions, slave narratives, person’s name e.g., Nat Turner
TIP 1 : When you find a book that is exactly what you are looking for, copy the call number, pick up a blue stack guide at PCL Information and Research Help Desk to find the book's location, and browse for other works on that topic. |
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TIP 2 : Look in the back of the book for sources the author used to write the book, copy some titles, and check the Library catalog if the library has these books or journals |
HOW TO FIND NEWSPAPER AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
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Online Databases and Indexes to Articles on the Library's home page
Suggested databases to use :
America: History and Life (some full text articles)
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (full text)
International Index to Black Periodicals (some full text articles)
JSTOR (full text) limit your search to African American Studies and History journals
Bibliographies
The African American Experience : an historiographical and bibliographical guide
E 184.65 A37 2001
Black slavery in the Americas : an interdisciplinary bibliography, 1865-1980
HT 1049 S657 1982 PCL Reference, use index in vol. 2 to find sources
Harvard Guide to African-American History
E 185 H326 2001 PCL Reference
Afro-American reference : an annotated bibliography of selected resources.
Z 1361 N39 D37 1985 PCL Stacks
BOOKS
In the Library catalog use these keywords with the name of a person or topic e.g., slave(s): journal(s), diary, letters, narrative(s), memoir(s), letters, correspondence, sources, source materials, plantation records
NEWSPAPERS and PERIODICALS
Online Databases and Indexes to Articles on the Library's home page
Suggested databases:
African American History in the Press, 1851-1899
E 185.2 A25 This 2 volume set includes more than 1200 articles and numerous illustrations from newspapers and periodicals documenting the positive and negative portrayals of African Americans
American Periodical Series on microfilm for period after 1805. Microfilm reel 829, there is a guide to this set in PCL Level 1, ask librarian for help using this set.
Slavery : source materials and critical literature
E 441 S632 1998 PCL Level 1 Microforms
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TIP 3: Use the following sources to find which African American and other newspapers and periodicals were around for your time period, then check Library catalog to see if library has them |
Antebellum Black newspapers: indices to New York Freedom's journal (1827-1829),
The Rights of all (1829), The Weekly advocate (1837) E 185.5 J33 PCL Ref
Anti-Slavery Newspapers and Periodicals
AI 3 B55 PCL Stacks 3C
Checklist of Negro Newspapers in the United States
016.071 B815c PCL Stacks 4C
Early American Newspapers, check Library catalog under this title to get a list. These are mostly on microform in PCL Level 1, ask librarian for help using these
Early Black Press in America
PN 4882.5 H87 PCL Stacks 6D
Plantation Records, these are on microfilm in PCL Level 1, ask librarian for help using these.
| WEBSITES WITH ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES |
Africans in America includes background articles, slave narratives and other primary documents, covers time period 1450-1865
African American Mosaic slave narratives, abolition movement documents, facsimile illustrations
American Memory slave narratives, personal papers, pamphlets, search on keyword "African Americans" in Collection finder
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism Included are footnoted entries from archival and secondary source documents with links to full text Internet sites.
From Slavery to Freedom online pamphlet collection
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles
Making of America full text articles of 19th century American magazines
Slave Narratives selected interviews with former slaves collected as part of the WPA during the New Deal
Slaves and the Courts "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. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance."
