Legal Databases by Subject: Slavery
Slavery Databases
This is a selective list. Other databases may include additional resources relevant to the topic.
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2 This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of America's historical newspapers. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
- Citing Slavery ProjectContent by Justin Simard and Editors.
"The Citing Slavery Project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent."
"...These citations practices cause serious harms and reveal the legal profession’s ethical limitations...."
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowThis collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Fugitive Slave Ads: Topics in Chronicling AmericaA guide for researching the topic of "fugitive slave ads" in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowSee this database in HeinOnline:
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
More InfoUB ONLYProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new windowProQuest® History Vault provides access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The vast majority of the content in History Vault is not available elsewhere. The content in History Vault is perfect for researchers in history, African American studies, women’s studies, political science, social sciences, sociology, and international studies. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYSabin Americana This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to the contents of a legendary bibliography covering every aspect of the history and culture of the Americas.More InfoFull-Text UB ONLYSlavery and Anti-Slavery, Parts 1-4 This link opens in a new windowPrimary source documents on all aspects of the phenomenon of slavery and its abolition in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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