Archive

Using a Tumblr account, each student will create an archive of at least 6 primary sources related to their subtopic. Each document will be accompanied by a brief, 100-150 word description.

Economics
Middle Passage
Racial Ideology
Slave Life
Slave Resistance
Women and Gender

Links for sources:

 

Documenting the American South (UNC-Chapel Hill)

http://docsouth.unc.edu/

 

Voyages Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Emory)

http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/resources/images.faces

 

Samuel May Collection (Cornell)

http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/

 

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/topics/

 

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas (UVA)

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html

 

United States National Archives

http://docsteach.org/documents

 

Gilder Lehrman Institute

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collections

 

Biblioteca Virtual Nacional of the National Library of Portugal

http://purl.pt/index/livro/PT/index.html

 

ARTstor (Harvard)

http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html

 

Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice

http://www.slavery.amdigital.co.uk.ezproxy.rice.edu/Contents/Default.aspx