"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Cong

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. Subsequently, these former slaves attempted

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it to

A startling and superbly researched book demythologizing the North’s role in American slavery “The hardest question is what to do when human rights give way