University Libraries: African Americans and the African Diaspora: Primary Document Collections

Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive Parts 1 - 4

Part 1: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Part 2: The Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; Part 3: The Institution of Slavery: Part 4: Age of Emancipation. Contains full-text documents books, manuscripts, newspapers, broadsides, and legal documents on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, and the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.

Primary Document Collections

History Vault This link opens in a new window
Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War subcollection
Records of antebellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Includes business records and personal papers.
Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle subcollection
Collection contains the NAACP Papers and federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers regarding the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century.
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new window
FBI Library documents on on the internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent radical groups in the United States in the 1960s. Subjects include COINTELPRO, Abbie Hoffman, the United Farm Workers, Students for a Democratic Society, Kent State University, and Brown Berets. Dates of coverage: 1956-1971
We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 This link opens in a new window
FBI Library documents on civil rights activists, the Freedom Riders, who rode interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia, which outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
For "Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984"

Select "Archives Unbound" --> Click "Collections" --> Select "Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984"

Documents originated by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation on operatives investigating politically suspect figures and organizations.Dates of coverage: 1920-1984.