Research Guides: Colored Conventions Project: Websites

Selected Websites

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
The collection presents a review of African American history and culture, "spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with the bulk of the material published between 1875 and 1900." (Library of Congress)
African-American Studies Research Guide: Open Access
The Columbia University Libraries library guide describes freely-available web collections related to African American studies.
African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections (Digital Schomburg)
Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA portal searches collections held by US archives, libraries and museums.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South is a digital publishing initiative that offers "Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture." (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
396 pamphlets from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division that complement those from its Daniel A. P. Murray Collection.
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection | Cornell University Library
More than 10,000 titles, including pamphlets and leaflets, that document the anti-slavery movement at local, regional, and national levels.

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Featured Website

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
Provdes information on African American history and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.