Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

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Coverage:	Sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries
Access:	University of Delaware Library; campus network; available via proxy access
Description:	Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive includes digital collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, and the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. This database contains: 4.2 million cross-searchable pages: 11969 books, 157 serials, 52 manuscript collections, 377 supreme court records and briefs and 194 reference articles from Macmillan, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale encyclopedias. Links to websites, biographies, chronology, bibliographies, and information on key collections, to give users background and context for further research. Collections published through partnerships with the Amistad Research Center, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the British Library, the National Archives in Kew, Oberlin College, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the University of Miami, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and many other institutions. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents selected by a renowned board of scholars and organized in four parts: Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World Part III: Institution of Slavery Part IV: Age of Emancipation
Producer:	Cengage Gale
Trial Ends:	May 10, 2013