Research Guides: HIST 4823: Black Freedom in the Age of Emancipation: Books and Resources to Consider

Diaries, Correspondence, Interviews, Memoirs: Online Resources

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Covers: 1850s-. Offers non-fiction published works of leading African Americans, including interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and periodicals such as The Black Panther.

Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black & Female in the Old South.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.
Special Collections - Russell F349.N2 C48 1998
Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives
Collects "books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920."
Early Caribbean Slave Narratives
This online exhibit hosted at Northeastern University features the full text of a dozen published narratives.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-38
Offers "more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves."