African American History: Open Access Primary Sources

Digital collections for one of the premier African American history library centers. Click on the selected links at the bottom of the page for an excellent list of additional websites.

Full-text of WPA former slave interviews conducted from 1936-8.

List of searchable digital collections from American Memory.

Selected documents from the book series Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867.

Digital collection that provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture.

Extensive collection of images and text from libraries and other repositories across the U.S. UT Libraries is a participating member.

Ongoing project to index the records of individuals whose names appear in the Freedmen's Bureau records.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. To login, click on the bright yellowish/orange LOG IN button. Select University of Tennessee, Knoxville from the drop-down list and log in with your NetID/password.

Full and partial images of thousands of books and periodicals digitized by Google. To limit results to full-text, use the advanced book search and click on "full-view only." Particularly good resource for finding the complete text of older books and periodicals.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises more than 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes. Users can search for information about a particular voyage or group of voyages. The website provides full interactive capability to analyze the data and report results in the form of statistical tables, graphs, maps, a timeline, and an animation.