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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice — “Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together [primary] documents from libraries and archives across the Atlantic World, covering an extensive time period from 1490” (database homepage).
Highlights include:
- African forts and the Gold Coast
- Materials on Brazil
- Education and social justice
- Family Papers, Correspondence, Bills and Plantation Journals
- Local court records relating to slavery
- Resistance and Revolts
- Testimony of enslaved people
- Slavery in the Early Americas
- Songs that recall the Transatlantic Slave Experience
- Urban Slavery in New York and Philadelphia
- The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
- Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
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