Description:
Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a thematically organized, historical archive devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.
The library provides access to all four parts: Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition; Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World; Part III: The Institution of Slavery; and Part IV: The Age of Emancipation. Included are 5.4 million cross-searchable pages: 12,048 books, 170 serials, 71 manuscript collections, 377 supreme court records and briefs and 194 reference articles from Macmillan, Charles Scribner's Sons and Gale encyclopedias. Aslo available are links to websites, biographies, chronology, bibliographies, and information on key collections, to give users background and context for further research.
Coverage:
1490-1896
Access:
Access is restricted to ASU students, faculty, and staff; off-campus access is available.
Eresource type:
Primary Sources
Subjects:
Africana Studies–Also Useful
History–Also Useful
Vendor:
Gale Cengage Learning