CHS Pathfinder: Slavery in America

Terms to use in searching the CHS Catalog

slavery, slave-trade, abolitionists, underground railroad

Call numbers: Go "browse" the shelves in these areas

306.3

Some books which may be borrowed

Abolitionists and Slave Resistance (2004) 326 EDW
Celia, a Slave: A True Story (1991) 345.73 MCL
The Atlalntic Slave Trade 306.3 POS
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Slavery to Emancipation  306.3 THO
The Middle Passage : white ships/black cargo by Tom Feelings 759.13 FEE
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester  326 LES

Some Reference books - to be used in the library

Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1998) R 306.3 WOR
Slavery in America: from Colonial Times (An Eyewitness History) (2000) R 973 SCH
Slavery Throughout History R 306.3 SYL

Magazine databases and other eResources

Gale Virtual Reference Library
MAS Ultra - School Edition
Multicultural Reference Center  
SIRS
TOPICsearch

Web sites

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas  
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project
Encyclopedia of Slavery: USA  
Librarian's Index to the Internet: Slavery  
Slavery and the Making of America   from PBS
Voices from the Days of Slavery:  Former Slaves Tell their Stories  

AV - Videos, DVDs

A History of Slavery in America  VID 326 HIS

Biography

Harriet Beecher Stowe B STO
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Petry (1955) B TUB
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845) B DOU

Fiction

Ajeemah and his Son  by James Berry F BER
Letter from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs F LYO
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe F STO

T Dakubu 2006