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View Resource Anti-slavery Issues in Canada 1830-1870: A Selective Bibliography

Posted earlier this month, this selective, but extensive, bibliography lists "materials held by the National Library of Canada and the National Archives of Canada on the anti-slavery movement in Canada between approximately 1830 and 1870." Though not a complete bibliography of the materials on this topic held by these institutions, it does represent the scope of different sources in these...

https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/lac-bac/anti-slavery-e...
View Resource National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Before 1863, the Underground Railroad was a system of cooperation among Black slaves, abolitionists, sympathetic Whites, and Native Americans to help slaves escape the bondage of American slavery. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center wants to educate the public about the legacy of the Underground Railroad and its historic struggle to abolish human enslavement. The Freedom Center is...

https://freedomcenter.org/
View Resource Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

This site from the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) at the University of Wisconsin provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on a variety of slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ships of eighteenth-century France, slave trade to Rio de Janeiro,...

https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/...
View Resource The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Located at Yale University, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is "dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction." Created by a major gift from Richard Gilder, the Center's Web site provides detailed information about the fellowships, conferences, publications, and...

https://glc.yale.edu/