African American history, culture, and daily life. Delivers news coverage from thousands of sources not found anywhere else with coverage from 1704 to today.
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Vendor: Newsbank
Subscriber: HU
Description:
Compilation of works published from 1693-1830, written by or about members of America's black populace
Subjects: History
Vendor: VIVA
Subscriber: Free
A union database of finding aids to archival and manuscripts collections in thirteen Virginia repositories. The contents of the database represent only a small percentage of each institution's holdings.
Subjects: American Studies, History Vendor: EBSCO Subscriber: VIVA Article abstracts and bibliographic citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Includes links to some full-text articles in other databases.
The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott for primarily African-American readers. This subscription covers publication dates 1910 - 1975
The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project makes available some 2400 advertisements that appeared in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and 1840.
The Geography of Slavery project contains more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants, drawn from newspapers in Virginia and Maryland, covering the years from 1736 through 1803.
The Texas Runaway Slave Project (TRSP) is a database of runaway slave advertisements, articles and notices from newspapers published in Texas. The project has so far documented the names of over 1400 runaway slaves from Texas.
