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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE CIVIL WAR: IMPACT OF SLAVERY
This is a selected guide of resources held in the University Libraries to support research on the
impact of slavery during the American Civil War. To locate any of the listed materials, consult
the online catalog or ask the librarian.
CLASSIFICATION OF MATERIAL:
Library of Congress classifications for American slavery during the American Civil War are:
E185.2-185.89-African Americans-Status and Development Since Emancipation
E441-453- Slavery in the United States- Anti-Slavery Movements
SELECTED RESOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
Bartlett, John Russell. The Literature of the Rebellion: a Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets
Relating to the Civil War in the United States, and on Subjects Growing Out of That
Event, Together with Works on American Slavery, and Essays from Reviews on the
Same Subjects.
[African American Collection Reference Z1242.B2 1970]
Brignano, Russell Carl. Black Americans in Autobiography: an Annotated Bibliography of
Autobiographies and Autobiographical Books Written Since the Civil War.
[African American Collection Z1361.N39 B67]
Morgan, Kenneth. ed. Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide.
[African American Collection E441.S6325 2005]
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Calarco, Tom. People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary.
[African American Collection E450 .C38 2008]
Hudson, J. Blaine. Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad.
[African American Collection E450 .H855 2006]
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Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and
Operations.
[African American Collection E450.S65 2008]
HANDBOOKS
Battle, Thomas C. and Donna M. Wells. eds. Legacy: Treasures of Black history.
[African American Collection E185.53.W3M66 2006]
Dodson, Howard and Colin Palmer. eds. Origins.
[African American Collection E185.O75 2008]
Lightner, David L. Slavery and the Commerce Power : How the Struggle Against the Interstate
Slave Trade Led to the Civil War.
[African American Collection E442 .L54 2006]
Penrice, Ronda Racha. African American History for Dummies.
[African American Collection E185 .P43 2007]
Stewart, James Brewer. Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War.
[African American Collection E441 .S895 2008]
DATABASES
African American Biographical Database
Brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to
be found in any other reference source. Contains extended narratives of African American
activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians,
writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers,
scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person. Their stories are
pivotal to an understanding of the Black American experience over the last two centuries.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
The full text of major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the
19th century including Freedom’s Journal, The Colored American, The North Star, The National
Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
America History and Life
America: History & Life covers United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the
present. Includes current affairs, area studies, ethnic studies, folklore, historiography and
methodology, international relations, oral history, prehistory, government and political science,
popular culture, urban affairs, teaching of history, and interdisciplinary studies of historical
interest and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
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Primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
A Composite autobiography of the life histories of former American slaves including transcripts
of actual slave interviews and sound files of ex-slaves discussing their lives in their own voices.
America's Historical Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers provides access to newspaper articles from early American
newspapers from 1690-1922, covering events from the early colonial period to the roaring
twenties.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
The Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 11 million
biographical sketches in over 3000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference
books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Biography Index
A bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in
other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual
and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical
books. Periodicals indexed are selected from all subject areas represented by other Wilson
Company databases. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and
represent all fields and nationalities.
Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from
throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines
approximately 250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million
biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who. The database also includes full-text
articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such
as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation gender, or combine criteria
to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
Black Studies Center
The Black Studies Center provides current and historical materials for researching African
Americans, the African Diaspora, and Africa. It is comprised of the following cross-searchable
databases: (1) Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience provides interdisciplinary topics on
the African experience throughout the Americas via in-depth essays accompanied by detailed
timelines along with important research articles, images, film clips and more. (2) International
index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) provides current and retrospective bibliographic citations and
abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the
Caribbean, and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. (3) The Chicago Defender
full text back file from 1910 to 1975. (4) Black Literature Index, the electronic index to the
Black Literature microfiche collection. This index allows users to search over 70,000
bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals
and newspapers between 1827-1940.
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Black Thought and Culture
Black Thought and Culture contains 1,297 sources with 1,098 authors, covering the non-fiction
published works of leading African Americans. Particular care has been taken to index this
material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Where possible the
complete published non-fiction works are included, as well as interviews, journal articles,
speeches, essays, pamplets, letters and other fugitive material.
JSTOR
Full text of 100+ core research journals in many subject areas. Coverage starts at the beginning
year of publication and includes all but the most recent years (as required by the publisher). Each
year an additional year of currently published titles is made available. More subject areas and
additional titles are being added regularly.
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.). Recording of Slave Narratives and Related Material in the Archive
of Folk Song: Reference Tapes.
[Federal Documents LC 1.12/2:Sl 1]
Division of Publications, National Park Service. Underground Railroad.
[Federal Documents I 29.9/5:156]
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases.
[Federal Documents LC 1.12/2:Sl ½]
Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
Emancipation Hall: a Tribute to the Slaves who Helped Build the U.S. Capitol : Hearing
before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency
Management of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of
Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, September 25, 2007.
[2007]
[Federal Documents Online] [full-text=http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS91966]
INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
Goodson, Martia Graham. An Introductory Essay and Subject Index to Selected Interviews from
the Slave Narrative Collection.
[Coleman E444 .G661 1979]
Jacobs, Donald M. and Steven Fershleiser. Index to the American Slave.
[African American Collection E444 .A45 Suppl. 3]
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PRINT AND ELECTRONIC BOOKS
Abbott, Richard H. Cotton & Capital: Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854-1868.
[NetLibrary 1991]
Adams, Charles. When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern
Secession.
[Coleman E468.9 .A33 2000]
Andreano, Ralph L. ed. The Economic Impact of the American Civil War.
[Coleman HC105.6 .A5]
Blight, David W. A Slave no More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom: Including Their Own
Narratives of Emancipation.
[African American Collection E450.W325 B58 2007]
Conrad, Robert Edgar. In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave
Trading and the Crisis of the Union.
[NetLibrary 2001]
Davis, David Brion. In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and our Heritage of Slavery.
[African American Collection HT871 .D28 2001]
Eyerman, Ron. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity.
[NetLibrary 2001]
Gerteis, Louis S. From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks, 18611865.
[African American Collection E453 .G47]
Huston, James L. Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the
Economic Origins of the Civil War.
[African American Collection E441 .H895 2003]
King, Wilma. Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-century America.
[NetLibrary]
Lonn, Ella. Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy.
[Coleman HC105.65 .L6]
Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood. Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American
Civil War.
[Coleman E459 .O58 2006]
Ransom, Roger L. Conflict and Compromise: the Political Economy of Slavery, Emancipation,
and the American Civil War.
[African American Collection E441 .R3 1989]
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PRINT AND ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
American history
from 03/01/1997 to present in ProQuest Research Library (Legacy Platform)
America’s Civil War
from 03/01/1998 to present in ProQuest Research Library (Legacy Platform)
Civil War Times Illustrated
[Coleman- Periodicals-Shelved by Title]
The Anti-Slavery Record
[African American Collections E449 .A6239]
The Liberator
[Coleman-Microforms-Shelved by Title]
The Liberty Almanac 1847-1852
[African American Collection E449 .L685]
ONLINE RESOURCES
Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War-Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/tguide/tgsocw.html
American Memory Collections Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=African%20American%20Histo
ry
Born in Slavery W.P.A. Federal Writer’s Project 1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/
Impact of Slavery in America
http://www.suite101.com/content/impact-of-slavery-in-america-a327881
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
Slave Documents and History
http://www.africanafrican.com/negroartist/slavery/index.htm
Slave Documents Collection- Maryland Digital Heritage
http://www.mdch.org/collection.aspx?id=5110-
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Slavery and the Origins of the Civil War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/tguide/tgsocw.html
Oklahoma Genealogy and History Slave Narrative Collection
http://www.okgenweb.org/slave.htm
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