Black Studies and Africana Studies: Online Resources

A free collection of open primary sources documents. It contains historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. Do explore this resource as it might be relevant to history studies, black africana studies and more.

This an online reference center that provides information of the History of African American and people of African ancestry from around the world. Includes links to primary sources, journal titles, speeches, timelines, among other helpful resources.

Explore a comprehensive digital archive documenting the transatlantic and inter-American slave trades, meticulously compiled from numerous libraries and archival collections spanning the Atlantic world.

The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies) preserves at-risk ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and their descendants in slave societies. The collection holds over 700,000 digital images from nearly 2,000 volumes dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries, documenting the lives of an estimated four to six million individuals.