Primary Sources
African American Newspapers: The 19th CenturyIncludes the complete text of major 19th century African-American newspapers such as
The Christian Recorder (1861-1902)
, Freedom's Journal (1827-1829)
, The North Star (1847-1851), and the
Frederick Douglass' Paper (1851-1863).
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The collected correspondence, speeches, sermons, lectures, editorials, society proceedings and poems of close to three hundred Black abolitionists including hand-written correspondence.
Geographical coverage: United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany.
America’s Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex)A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922. The collection includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.
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Historical New York Times (ProQuest)The complete archive of the
New York Times from 1851 to the present with the exception of the most current two years. Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.
Helpful limit options: date, author, document type.
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200 years of American history as recorded in magazines, journals and newspapers starting in 1741. Includes numerous abolitionist magazines such as the
Liberator and the
Abolitionist.
Click on
Publications and look up anti-slavery periodicals by subject.
Journal subjects include
abolitionist, freedmen, fugitive slaves, slavery and
blacks-colonization.
Use the
author search to locate articles written by abolitionists.
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Online collection of primary sources digitized by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress through the 103rd Congress.
Search the full text or browse documents on subjects such as Emancipation of Slaves, Antislavery Movements, Abolitionists, Slavery or Underground Railroad.
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Early American Imprints. Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century.
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Books, pamphlets, serials and other documents published from 1500 to the early 1900's that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more.
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A digital collection of books and documents on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport published from 1450 through 1850.
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Autobiographies, diaries, letters & other primary sources from the library's print collection
Search the library's catalog for primary sources. Here are some examples:
Author search - Frederick Douglass ; Alexander Crummell ; Henry Box Brown
Subject search - abolitionists and speeches
African American Studies Center Online (Oxford)Find primary sources under the
Browse tab. The collection also includes maps, images, charts and tables.
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Biographical Information
American National Biography OnlineBiographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
Click on the
Search tab and scroll down to
Occupations & Realms of Renown. Type
Abolitionists into the text field. ANBO includes 157 short biographies of abolitionists. The bibliographies list available primary sources and recommended secondary sources.
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Includes more than 7,000 biographies from the
African American National Biography project.
Search for
Abolitionists and then narrow the search results to
Biographies. The
AASC features biographies of close to 800 abolitionists.
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An index to biographical dictionaries. Use this resource to locate biographical dictionaries with relevant entries.
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Biographical Information in the Library's Print Collection
Search by subject or keyword.
Use personal names such as William Still or search for "African American abolitionists."
WorldCat (OCLC)A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
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Biographical Information from Obituaries
Search the libraries digital newspapers for obituaries of African American abolitionists.
Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Society of Friends Manuscript Census Schedules, 1838, 1847, 1856Philadelphia Social History Project.
Initially taken in 1838 to demonstrate the stability and significance of the African American community and to forestall the abrogation of African American voting rights, the Quaker and Abolitionist census of African Americans was continued in 1847 and 1856 and presents an invaluable view of the mid-nineteenth century African American population of Philadelphia.
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Critical Studies/Secondary Literature
Falvey Library CatalogBooks and book chapters in the Library's print collection are an important source of critical literature. Take advantage of the different search options available in the library's catalog. Start with a
keyword search and use the hyper-linked
subjects to further narrow your search results. Facets can also be used to limit search results. Topic,
region,
era, and
language are some of the available facets.
Subject search: African American abolitionists
Subject search: Abolitionists and "Civil Rights"
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Find books that are not owned by the library and request them via interlibrary loan. Titles owned by
Falvey Memorial Library are tagged, those not held by
Falvey can be requested through interlibrary loan with the
"Borrow from another library" link. WorldCat uses the same
Library of Congress subject headings as the Library's catalog. Use the
Export feature to download selected references into RefWorks.
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A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Subjects include "African American abolitionists," "African Americans - Colonization," "Antislavery movements," and "Blacks."
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Start with a simple keyword search for "Black Abolitionists."
Most of the recent dissertations are available full text online. Scan the bibliographies for additional primary and secondary sources.
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Citing Your Sources
RefWorksNever type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.
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A comprehensive tutorial on how to use Refworks, a web-based tool to help manage your citations. The tutorial is broken into short sections by topic.
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Chicago Manual of Style OnlineThe 16th edition of the standard style manual used by writers and editors of scholarly books and journals.
Available online and in print.
Use the
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide for easy reference.
Information desk copy: Z253.U69 2010
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