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HIST 123 Intro to African Diaspora History (HC): Primary Sources

History 123 Introduction to African Diaspora History (Laurent-Perrault) Fall 2014

Printed Primary Sources

Primary sources can take many different forms.  Letters, accounts and other kinds of documents written at the time of an event or era allow a nuanced and detailed understanding of historical issues.  Material below explains ways to locate primary sources in Tripod and Worldcat.  To find additional primary sources, historical studies in books and journal articles will often offer the best recommendations. Check footnotes and bibliographies for references to specific titles.

Finding Primary Sources 

Primary source translations that are in the Tricollege libraries will often be listed in Tripod under subject words combined with such terms as  "sources"  "early works to 1800"  "correspondence"  "interviews"  or  "personal narratives"    For example, the search Subject:latin america sources AND Keyword:colon* produces books including:

Images as Primary Sources

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 Miguel Cabrera, Casta painting of a couple 

with their children (circa 1763) (Wikimedia Commons)

 

 

For more casta paintings, see the website Constructing Race with Images