Research Guides: POLS 023: Slavery and its Legacy for US Politics (SC): Historical Documents

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Historical Documents & Data

LLMC Digital
Searchable database of primary and secondary legal publications. Collections include: U.S. federal, state, and territories government documents; case reporters, legal periodicals and treatises; foreign government, multi-jurisdictional, and international law documents; canon law, Native American law, and legal philosophy.
HeinOnline
Provides searchable database of full text legal periodicals and primary documents
Social Explorer
Tool for finding and mapping historical US Census data from 1790-present.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
This digital collection provides access to primary sources documents related to key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
Collection of legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, including colony and state statutes, federal statutes, and state and federal cases

Quakers and Slavery digital collection
Primary sources from Haverford and Swarthmore College regarding Quakers and antislavery movements.
Quakers and Slavery exhibit
Exhibit about the history of Quakers, slavery, and abolitionism, highlighting resources from Swarthmore and Haverford colleges.

ArchiveGrid
Searches descriptions of primary source collections in archives and libraries. Use this to find archives you could visit.

Philadelphia Area Archives Research Portal
Searches descriptions of primary source collections in archives near Philadelphia

America's Historical Newspapers
Search 2,000+ historical newspapers published in the United States between 1690-1922. Includes publications from all 50 states.
NewspaperArchive.com
Search through newspapers from 1607-present.
African American Periodicals 1825-1995
Search through 170 periodicals by and about African Americans, including academic and political journals, magazines, newsletters, literary journals, annual reports of organizations, and other genres. Includes publications from 25 states and Washington, DC.
This collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998).
African-American Newspapers 1827-1998
Search through 280 African American newspapers from 35 states, published between 1827-1998. Includes Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American-owned and operated newspaper.