Digital Collections
Examples of materials related to slavery are provided for
most of the collections listed below. Search on the term slavery
to locate additional resources within these American Memory
collections.
Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection
includes a special presentation on the Emancipation
Proclamation that includes a timeline
and gallery.
African
American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray
Collection, 1818-1907
The collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review
of African-American history and culture, spanning almost
one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the
early twentieth centuries.
America
Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
This collection spans the period from the turn of the
nineteenth century to the 1880s, although a majority of
the song sheets were published from the 1850s to the 1870s.
American
Notes: Travels in America, 1750 to 1920
The collection comprises 253 published narratives by Americans
and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies
and the United States and their observations and opinions
about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750
to 1920.
American
Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the
Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States
The site contains a slightly expanded and fully searchable
version of the print publication American Women: A Library
of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture
in the United States (Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress, 2001). The guide has been redesigned for online
use, with added illustrations and links to existing digitized
material located throughout the Library of Congress Web
site.
Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936 to 1938
The collection contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts
of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former
slaves. The special presentations in the collection are
An
Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives and Voices
and Faces from the Collection.
"California
as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's
Early Years, 1849 to 1900
The collection consists of the full texts and illustrations
of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's
history through eyewitness accounts.
The
Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake
Bay Region, 1600 to 1925
The collection includes first-person narratives, early
histories, historical biographies, promotional brochures,
and books of photographs that capture in words and pictures
a distinctive region as it developed between the onset of
European settlement and the first quarter of the twentieth
century.
A
Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional
Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The collection consists of a linked set of published congressional
records of the United States of America from the Continental
Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875.
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
The black-and-white photographs of the Farm Security Administration-Office
of War Information Collection are a landmark in the history
of documentary photography.
The
Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American
abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his
own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer,
writer, and publisher. The special presentations for the
collection include a Timeline, Douglass
in His Own Words, and a Family
Tree.
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1824-1909
The collection includes 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book
and Special Collections Division, published from 1822 through
1909, by African-American authors and others who wrote about
slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction,
and related topics.
George
Washington Papers
The complete George Washington Papers collection from the
Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists
of approximately 65,000 documents. This is the largest collection
of original Washington documents in the world.
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic
American Engineering Record (HAER) collections document
achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in
the United States through a comprehensive range of building
types and engineering technologies.
- Melrose
Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose,
Natchitoches Parish, LA.
- Sotterly,
Slave Quarters, State Route 245 & Vista Road Vicinity,
Hollywood vicinity, St. Mary's County, MD.
The
James Madison Papers, 1723 to 1836
The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at
the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000
items captured in some 72,000 digital images.
Map
Collections
The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress
holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections
represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted
to digital form. The collection is organized according to
seven major categories: Cities
and Towns, Conservation
and Environment, Cultural
Landscapes, Discovery
and Exploration, General
Maps, Military
Battles and Campaigns, and Transportation
and Communication.
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870 to 1885
This collection consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.
Pioneering
the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin,
ca. 1820 to 1910
The collection's 138 volumes depict the land and its resources;
the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience
of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and
reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural
traditions; and the development of regional and national
leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics,
religion, law, journalism, education, and the role of women.
Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
The Printed Ephemera collection at the Library of Congress
is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the collection
comprises 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth
century to the present and encompasses key events and eras
in American history.
Slaves
and the Courts, 1740 to 1860
The collection contains just over a hundred pamphlets and
books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult
and troubling experiences of African and African-American
slaves in the American colonies and the United States.
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
A multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes approximately 700 sound recordings, as well as photographic prints, fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States collecting folksongs.
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606 to 1827
The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript
Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately
27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original
Jefferson documents in the world.
Voices
from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented
in this collection took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine
Southern states. The collection includes Faces
and Voices from the Presentation and Biographies
of the Interviewers.
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and
other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign.
Words
and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating
the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
The Manuscript Division staff selected approximately ninety
representative documents spanning from the fifteenth century
to the mid-twentieth century.
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