Legal Databases by Subject
Slavery Databases
This is a selective list. Other databases may include additional resources relevant to the topic.
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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
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowDigitized images of America's historical newspapers. More InfoFull-Text PUBLIC
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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...."
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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
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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.
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HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowSee this database in HeinOnline:
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
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ProQuest 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, including African American studies, women’s studies, political science, social sciences, sociology, and international studies. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
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Sabin 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 ONLY
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Slavery 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