Slavery--United States
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The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected books, and
access to online periodical articles about this subject. The Web site links have
been researched, evaluated, and annotated by Rio Hondo College Librarians. The
Librarians have specifically selected these Web sites to meet the research needs
of Rio Hondo College students
Web Site Links
Africans
in America : America's Journey through Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
The Web site is a companion to the 1998 PBS six-part series of the same name
and is based upon years of extensive research. Four periods are examined: the
Terrible Transformation (1450-1750), the Revolution (1750-1805), Brotherly Love
(1791-1831) and Judgment Day (1831-1965). For each period, biographies, notes,
annotated visual materials, text, and commentaries by scholars supplement the
historical narrative.
Amistad
Links http://www.amistad.org/
The Mystic Seaport maritime museum and Amistad America, Inc. developed this
directory of links to pages about the history of the Amistad, the Amistad
incident and the filming of Amistad (1997).
Amistad Research Center http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
Based in Tulane University, the Center holds manuscripts related to the
study of ethnic history and culture and race relations in the United States.
Select the "Amistad Incident" button for accounts of the famous Amistad revolt.
Chronology
on the History of Slavery and Racism http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
"Researched and compiled by Eddie Becker, this site arose from independent
research into the Smithsonian Institution's oldest building in Washington, DC,
the Holt House. It includes comprehensive footnoted entries from archival and
secondary source documents, including links to full text Internet sites, ...
spanning the period from 1619 to the present."
Documenting the American South http://docsouth.unc.edu/
This full-text database is a collection of primary resources on Southern
history, literature and culture form the colonial period through the early 20th
century. Clink on "North American Slave Narratives" for the full text of slave
narratives published in English in broadsides, pamphlets or book form up to
1920. Alternatively, select "First-Person Narratives of the American South" to
see 101 printed texts documenting the culture of the American South from the
Southerner's viewpoint.
Similar Sites:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Subject/Slavery/
-- A list of reviewed Web sites related to slavery in U.S. History
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
-- American Slave Narratives: an Online Anthology (Univ. of Virginia)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
-- Born in Slavery : Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
-- Texts by and about African Americans (Univ. of Virginia)
Online Databases (Rio Hondo Students only)
Gale Virtual Reference Library
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cclc_rio?db=GVRL
Contains the full text to Gale Reference print volumes.
Type in "slavaery" to find many book articles.
Books
The following books can be located in
the Rio Hondo College Library.
The African-American almanac
Call number: Ref E 185.N385 2000
Chronology of African-American history : significant events and people from
1619 to the present
Call number: Ref E185.H64
1991
Civil rights (Current controversies)
Call number: Ref JC599.U5C5618 2004
Dictionary of Afro-American slavery
Call number: Ref E441.D53 1988
The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery
Call number: Ref HT861.H57 1997
Reparations for American slavery
(At issue) (Opposing viewpoints series)
Call number: Ref E185.89.R45R47 2004
The timetables of African-American history : a chronology of the most
important people and events in African-American history
Call number: Ref E185.H295 1995
Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the
following Library of Congress subject headings:
African Americans--History--To 1863
Slavery--United States--History
Media
The following media can be located in the
Rio Hondo College Library, to be viewed in the Library.
Africans in America : America's journey through slavery
Call number: Video 001202 (4 videos)
This program follows the history of American slavery from its birth to the Civil War. Considers the contradictions that lie at the heart of the founding of the American nation. The infant democracy pronounced all men to be created equal while enslaving one race to benefit another. Portrays the struggles of the African people in America, from their arrival in the 1600s to the last days of the Civil War.
A Biography of America
Call number: Video 000467 (13 videos)
This 26-part series of half-hour programs explores the human side of American history and encourages critical thinking about the forces that shaped America. Using photos, film footage, and documents, host historians lecture in a first-person narrative to describe a collective life story and history of American people and their every-day events.
Frederick Douglass : an American life
Call number: Video 000381
Leader of men, publisher-editor, statesman, orator, abolitionist, and U.S. Marshal. This documentary explores the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Told in his own words, Douglass recalls the brutality of his own bondage...his escape to freedom...his commitment to human rights of African people...his newspaper The North Star...poignant reflections on his family life...and his relationship with historical people like Harriet Tubman and John Brown.
Frederick Douglass : when the lion wrote history
Call number: Video 000540
Based upon his writings and speeches, this is the story of Frederick Douglass, an elegant orator and provocative abolitionist.
Harriet Tubman : antislavery activist
Call number: Video 000991
The story of Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery activist.
Roots
Call number: Video 000798 (6 videos)
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors, Kunta Kinte, was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Roots of resistance : a story of the underground railroad
Call number: Video 000970
Recounts the story of the underground railroad through narratives of escaped slaves. Includes interviews with descendants of slaves and slave holders of Somerset Place, a plantation in North Carolina, who describe the personal danger and terrible risk involved in each slave's departure.
Articles
The Rio Hondo College Library provides
online access to full-text articles through our
online databases - http;//library.riohondo.edu/online_databases.
Please note: you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board
member to use these services.
The 2 sample searches below are from the
ProQuest database.
Use Advanced Search and type each tern in a separate box:
1.
SUB(slavery) AND SUB(black history) [from
Scholarly Journals only]
2.
SUB(slavery) AND SUB(research)
Researched and evaluated by:
J. Sevilla-Marzona, Librarian 2/1999
last update: D. Yashar, Librarian 5/2008