Primary Source Collections - History - The South - University Libraries at Coastal Carolina University

Southern Life and African American History

Primary Source Databases in History
This is a link to all of Kimbel's primary source databases in history.

History Vault This link opens in a new window
Primary source archival materials on: Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; Women's Studies; Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals; American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; International Relations and Military Conflicts.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive Parts 1 - 4 This link opens in a new window
Primary source materials. Part I: 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. Includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database This link opens in a new window
Information on slaving voyages between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries in database form. Search using year, ship name, owner(s), itinerary, captain, and more. (1501 - 1866).

Digital Collections

War of 1812: Diplomacy on the High Seas This link opens in a new window
Letters of marque and letters regarding enemy aliens; passenger lists of vessels; correspondence regarding passports; agreements for the exchange of prisoners of war; miscellaneous correspondence.
War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824 This link opens in a new window
Letters of correspondence received by and sent to the War Department. Attachments include vouchers, financial statements, speeches to Indians, proceedings of conferences with Indians in Washington, licenses of traders, passports for travel in Indian country.
The Southern Literacy Messenger: Literature of the Old South This link opens in a new window
Shows how the topics of slavery and secession were presented in Southern intellectual and literary culture in the early stages of the Civil War. Dates of coverage: 1834-1864.
Civil War in Words and Deeds This link opens in a new window
Diaries, memoirs, regimental histories, and other first-person accounts compiled in the postwar period and early 20th century, chronicling the highs and lows of army life. Dates of coverage: 1860-1865.
Literature, Culture and Society in Depression Era America: Archives of the Federal Writers' Project This link opens in a new window
Archives of the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a program of the Works Projects Administration (WPA). Publications from all participating states, including city guides, social-ethnic studies, original poems and plays, and many others. Dates of coverage: 1933-1943.
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
History Vault This link opens in a new window
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 Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 This link opens in a new window
Documents originated by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation on operatives investigating politically suspect figures and organizations. Topics include A. Philip Randolph, the Black Panther Party of NC, the Committee for Public Justice, Malcolm X, Mississippi Burning, NAACP, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others. Dates of coverage: 1920-1984.
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.

Featured Library Materials

Documents of the American Revolution: 1770-1783
Offsite Storage Facility ; E203 .G68 1972 (21 volumes) Contains summaries and full text of surviving correspondence between the Colonial Office in Great Britain and the North American colonies in the years preceding and during the American Revolution.
Records of ante-bellum southern plantations [microform] : series B. selections from the South Carolina Historical Society
Records and correspondence from reels 1-3. Thomas Porcher Ravenel papers -- reel 4. Thomas Porcher Ravenel papers (cont.). Henry Ravenel papers -- reel 5. Thomas Walter Peyre plantation journal. Samuel Barker...
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estate account books. Gourdin-Gaillard family papers -- reel 6. Gourdin-Gaillard family papers (cont.) -- reel 7. Gourdin-Gaillard family papers (cont.). "Richmond" Overseer journal -- reel 8. Alonzo White slave auction book. John B. Milliken plantation journals. Paul D. Weston papers -- reel 9. Paul D. Weston papers (cont.). John Sparkman plantation book. Joshua John Ward plantation journals. Dr. Andrew Hasell medical account book. Reverend Alexander Glennie parish diary. Thomas Aston Coffin plantation book. Daniel Webb plantation book -- reel 10. Daniel Webb plantation book (cont.). Glover family papers.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from South Carolina
Digitized service records from the National Archives.
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Online at Making of America. Print copies in Offsite Storage E470 .U6 1985.