Africana Studies

Databases with U.S. and Global Content

Collections with content specific to the United States

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 by Newsbank
African American Newspapers: the 19th Century by History Commons
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African American Song
American National Biography
Civil War Collection, Part I, A Newspaper Perspective by History Commons
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Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
HarpWeek: the Civil War Era 1857-77
HistoryMakers
Produced by a non-profit institution whose purpose is to record, preserve and disseminate the content of video oral history interviews highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements. Interviews date from 1993 to the present.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
Part 3 explores the inner workings of slavery from 1492 to 1888. Through legal documents, plantation records, first-person accounts, newspapers, government records, and other primary sources, this collection reveals how enslaved people struggled against the institution. These rare works explore slavery as a legal and labor system, the relationship between slavery and religion, freed slaves, the Shong Massacre, the Demerara insurrection, and more.
Part 4 includes numerous rare documents related to emancipation in the United States, as well as Latin America and the Caribbean. This collection supports the study of many areas, including activities of the federal government in dealing with former slaves and the Freedmen's Bureau, views of political parties and post-war problems with the South, documents of the British and French government on the slave trade, reports from the West Indies and Africa, and other topics.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law