African American/Black History and Experience: Enslavement

Collection from the Library of Congress with more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of formerly enslaved Africans.

Collection of over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles regarding slavery.

Orimary sources on the experience of enslaved Africans. Topics include religion, living conditions, gender, education, arts, and legal rights.

Digital collection of records of the largest slave trades in history in which European colonizers forced millions of Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, and from one part of the Americas to another.

Library of Congress collection of 7 hours of recordings of formerly enslaved persons, telling their stories. Includes many songs learned during enslavement.

In collaboration with partners around the globe, the Slave Societies Digital Archive is dedicated to the preservation and free dissemination of endangered records documenting the history of Africans and their descendants across the Atlantic World.

Provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global Black experience through online materials at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture through the NY Public Library. Curated by staff and librarians.

The 1619 Project reframes the country’s history based on the premise that enslavement and Black American contributions are at the center of its formation. The project began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of August of 1619, when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia, bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans. This voyage which marked the beginning of American slavery.
Nikole Hannah-Jones - Producer
The New York Times Magazine