Contains 1000s of titles (books, pamphlets, maps, etc.) relating to the expansion of European empires, and on slavery and moves toward its abolition in the western world.
Covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. It is also strong in the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century. Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850, Part II: 1851-1914, Part III: 1890–1945, Part IV: 1800-1890.
Examples of catalog searches are followed by a selection of digital primary sources for each time period.
Slaves -- United States -- Biography
Slaves --Cuba-- Biography ***The headings above are very broad, and includes letters, memoirs and other autobiographical accounts written by slaves.
slaves' writings, american
slave writings--cuba
KEYWORD slave narratives and KEYWORD west indies
KEYWORD antislavery and KEYWORD pamphlets
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Personalnarratives
Includes published memoirs, letters and diaries, drawn from more than 500 sources, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials, searchable by words and phrases, as well as by places, battles, dates, form of material, etc. Database also includes 1000-item bibliography and 1000 biographies.
Contains letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, of immigrants to the United States and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Includes 342 authors and approximately 37,500 pages of material, including some audio material.
Contains diaries and letters, dating from colonial times to 1950 drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, and 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials.