*African and African American Studies (AAAS)

Describes the Civil War in five chronological sections, each of which frames the war as both a military conflict and a social force that shaped the U.S. Maps of population, economic development, elections, transportation networks accompany articles.

Discusses how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day. News articles, editorials, and cartoons from the time offer a range of contentious and impassioned opinions and reports on the crucial events in the Civil War.

Main Library Microform Closed Stacks: E449 .B625 1993
Main Library Microform Reference: E449 .B625 1993 (guide)
Main Library Stacks: E449 .B624 1985

Primary materials on industrial uses of slave labor. Includes company records, business and personal correspondence of industrialists, their managers, financiers, and customers. Includes documents pertaining to the purchase, hire, medical care, and provisioning of slave laborers, descriptions of actual production processes, journals recounting costs, and income. Although the selections concentrate on the Antebellum era, several run well beyond the end of the Civil War.

These papers were those that were in his personal library at the time of his death in 1895. They relate principally to his career after the Civil War.

An online database of over 35,000 slave voyages that enslaved over 10 million Africans between 1500s-1800s. Includes African names database of over 90,000 individuals identified by name.