Related Resources

Library of Congress Web Sites

• African-American History and Culture
• The African-American Mosaic
• The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
• African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
• Afro-American Genealogical Research
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
• The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
• Emancipation Proclamation
• The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
• The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
• From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909
• Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom from the Collections of the Library of Congress
• Maps of Liberia: Maps from the American Colonization Society Collection, 1830-1870
• Slavery and Abolition from The Nineteenth Century in Print (University of Michigan External and Cornell University External)

Other Web Sites

The selected sites listed below all relate in some way to Slaves and the Courts. The sites were chosen for their educational content and broad accessibility. The Library of Congress neither endorses nor maintains these Internet sites. Users should direct any problems with these sites to the particular administrator or Web master responsible.

• The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom External, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University
• The Amistad Case External, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
• Amistad Research Center External, Tulane University
• Boston African American National Historic Site, The National Park Service
• Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), National Archives and Records Administration
• Documenting the American South External, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• The Dred Scott Case External, Washington University Libraries
• The Dred Scott Decision External, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• The Emancipation Proclamation, National Archives and Records Administration
• NARA: Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade, National Archives and Records Administration
• National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, The National Park Service
• Our Shared History African American Heritage, The National Park Service
• Slavery & Abolition External, Smithsonian Institution
• Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery External, The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
• Toward Racial Equality External, HarpWeek