The most ambitious project of its kind, Slavery and AntiSlavery: A Transnational Archive embraces th

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The most ambitious project of its kind, Slavery
and Anti-Slavery A Transnational Archive
embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a
comprehensive, conceptual and global way.
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An unparalleled collection on the history of
slavery

• "Thanks to Gales Slavery and Anti-Slavery
  Debates over Slavery and Abolition archive, the
  first of four massive transnational digital
  archives on slavery, the information we need to
  research, write, teach, understand, and explain
  slavery is readily available, and in a
  comprehensive, usable format.
• Orville Vernon Burton
• Coastal Carolina University
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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The most ambitious project of its kind
Once completed, this digital collection will
comprise five million pages of documents
organized in four parts Part I Debates over
Slavery and Abolition Part II
Slave Trade in the Atlantic
World Part III Institution of Slavery Part IV
Age of Emancipation
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The worlds largest archive of the history of
slavery
Slavery Anti-Slavery brings together historical
books and pamphlets, legal documents, portraits,
maps, manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals.
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More than a collection of resources

• This primary-source database was prepared
  for the serious researcher, but also contains
  extensive reference material that will reach a
  less expert audience.

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Covers a wide spectrum of interests related to
the history of slavery

• Legal Issues
• The Caribbean
• The American South, race and the Civil War
• Children and women under slavery
• Modes of resistance
• Much more

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New research possibilities

• Make new connections? searching across books,
  pamphlets, manuscripts, newspapers, and Gale
  resources?with Making of Modern Law U.S.
  Supreme Court Records and Briefs, and Making of
  Modern Law Trials
• available to MOML customers

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New research possibilities

• Access rare historical manuscript collections
  that were previously accessible only through
  microfilm or restricted to academic reading
  rooms in multiple locations

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New research possibilities

• Discover opposing views, enriching lectures,
  papers and discussions

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New research possibilities

• Conduct interdisciplinary and comparative
  analysis, explore new research questions and take
  intuitive leaps

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Product information and research tools.
Search 1.5 million pages in a single search box.
Conduct advanced searches.
Want to see selected images? Browse here!
Looking for key documents? They are here!
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Searchable by document type
Browse the results that best serve your needs
from books and pamphlets to newspapers and
periodicals, manuscripts, U.S. Supreme Court
records and briefs
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Enhanced clarity

• The finding aids of all manuscript collections
  have been updated to include more usable data
• Whenever needed and possible, images have been
  rescanned to improve quality

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Access to rare collections

• More than a dozen historical collections are
  presented digitally, in their entirety, adding
  depth and context to the study of the history of
  slavery.

The American Missionary Association Archives,
1839-1882, sourced from the Amistad Research
Center at Tulane University The American
Colonization Society Papers, sourced from the
Library of Congress Salmon P. Chase Papers Papers
of British abolitionist Sir Thomas
Fowell-Buxton Papers of American abolitionist
Lewis Tappan
Records of the Office of the Secretary of the
Interior relating to the Suppression of the
African Slave Trade Negro Colonization,
1854-1872 Abolitionist periodicals from the
Library of Congress Anti-Slavery Collection from
Oberlin College Records of the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia relating to
slaves, 1851-1863 And more!
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Part I Debates over Slavery and Abolition

• Tells the story of the enslavement of Africans
  from the 16th century through 1888, when slavery
  was abolished in Brazil.
• Demonstrates the battles and debates that
  surrounded the practice, experience and eventual
  abolition of slavery.

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Part I Debates over Slavery and Abolition

• Composed of 1.5 million pages, Debates sheds
  light on
• The Abolitionist movement ? and conflicts within
  it
• Anti-slavery and pro-slavery arguments of the
  period
• Debates on the subject of colonization
• Much more

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Transnational Focus

• While Part I Debates over Slavery and Abolition
  supports research with a U.S. focus, it also
  facilitates comparative research with resources
  from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the
  Caribbean allowing for comparative research

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Multifaceted Study

• Explore multiple facets of the controversy,
  focusing on economic, gender, legal, religious
  and government issues

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Distinguished Review Board

• Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University
• University of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign
• Ira Berlin, University of Maryland
• Laurent Dubois, Duke University
• James Horton, George Washington University
• Charles Joyner, Coastal Carolina University
• Wilma King, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina
• Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney
• John Thornton, Boston University
• Chris Waldrep, San Francisco State University

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