Title: 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.
1The 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.
2An 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
3The 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
4The 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.
5More 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.
6Covers 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
7New 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
8New research possibilities
- Access rare historical manuscript collections
that were previously accessible only through
microfilm or restricted to academic reading
rooms in multiple locations
9New research possibilities
- Discover opposing views, enriching lectures,
papers and discussions
10New research possibilities
- Conduct interdisciplinary and comparative
analysis, explore new research questions and take
intuitive leaps
11Product 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!
12Searchable 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
13Enhanced 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
14Access 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!
15Part 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.
16Part 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
17Transnational 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
18Multifaceted Study
- Explore multiple facets of the controversy,
focusing on economic, gender, legal, religious
and government issues
19Distinguished 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
20Visit our website or contact your sales
representative for more informationwww.gale.ceng
age.com/digitalcollections