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Digital Resources for Early American Studies

African American Studies

Africans Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society

Africans in America, PBS

Digital Library of the Caribbean, University of Central Florida

Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

First Blacks in the Americas, CUNY Dominican Studies Institute

John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture, Duke University

Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London

Musical Passage: Voyage to 1688 Jamaica

Slave Voyages, Emory University

The Antislavery Literature Project, Arizona State University

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record, University of Colorado Boulder

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive, Northeastern University

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, The Gilder Lehrman Center

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

Please note: New Sources are Forthcoming, thank you!

 

Sequoyah

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Hannah Foster. The Boarding School

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.