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View Contents: Black Abolitionist Papers

This collection searches a unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. The content includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays from libraries and archives in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States. Over 15,000 items written by nearly 300 Black men and women are available for searching.

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- Abby Kelley and Stephen S. Foster Papers
- Adjutant General's Office, Compiled Military Service Record, Independent Battery, Colored Light Artillery
- Albany Institute of History and Art
- Albany Public Library
- Allen and Hanburys Ltd., London, England
- AMA Collection
- American Anti-Slavery Society Papers
- American Antiquarian Society
- American Baptist Historical Society
- American Home Missionary Society Papers
- American Missionary Association Archives
- Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, La.
- Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Anderson R. Abbot Papers
- Andrew Johnson Papers
- Anthony Family Collection
- Anthony Family Papers
- Anti-Slavery Collection
- Anti-Slavery Collections
- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets
- Anti-Slavery Pamphlets Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
- Antioch College
- Archives
- Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans Fifteenth Annual Report
- Atlanta University
- Autograph File
- Aydelott Papers
- Bailey Family Papers
- Bellows Papers
- Beman Papers
- Benjamin F. Butler Papers
- Benjamin Rush Collection
- Bibliotheque Nationale—Paris, France
- Birney Papers
- Black Medical History File
- Blair/Lee Papers
- Boston Athenaeum
- Boston Public Library
- Boston University
- Bowditch Family Papers
- Breck Collection
- British Library
- Brown Papers
- Brown University—Hay Library
- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, S.C. Record Group 105, Assistant Commisioner, Letter Received, D-7-1865
- Bureau of Refugees, Letters Received, Beaufort District
- Bureau of Refugees, Office of Commissioner, Letters Received
- Bureau of Refugees, South Carolina, Assistant Commissioner Letters Sent
- Burton Historical Collection—Wilkin-Ross Papers
- Calendar of Virginia State Papers
- California Historical Society
- California State Archives, Sacramento, California
- California State Library
- Carter G. Woodson Papers
- Carter Woodson Papers
- Cary Papers
- Central Michigan University
- Chapman Family Papers
- Charles Chapman Papers
- Charles Roberts Autograph Letters Collection
- Chase Family Papers
- Chicago Historical Society
- Christian Fleetwood Papers
- City of Hartford, Connecticut—Town Records
- Clark University
- Coates Papers
- Colonial Church and School Society
- Columbia University
- Concord Public Library
- Congregational Library—Boston
- Connecticut Historical Society
- Cornell University
- Corning Papers
- Cortland County Historical Society—Cortland, New York
- County Clerk's Office Madison County, Wampsville, New York
- Cowles Papers
- Crawford Blagden Collection of the Papers of Wendell Phillips
- Cuffe Papers
- Dana Papers
- Dartmouth College
- Deed Book B-1
- Detroit Public Library
- DeWitt Historical Society—Ithaca, New York
- Dillard University—Amistad Research Center
- Dr. Williams Library—London, England
- Drew University Library
- Duke University
- Education Papers
- Elizur Wright Papers
- Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts
- Female Anti-Slavery Society Papers
- File 7/1/5
- Foster Papers
- Fourth Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society
- Fred Landon Papers
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Friends House, Dublin, Ireland
- Friends Library—London, England
- Gardiner Collection
- Garrison Collection
- Gay Papers
- George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
- George DeBaptiste Papers
- George E. Ellis Papers
- Gerrit Smith Collection
- Gerrit Smith Papers
- Glasgow Female Anti-Slavery Society, Sixth Annual Report
- Gratz Collection
- Grellet Collection
- Grimke Papers
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Harvard University
- Harvard University—Amistad Research Center
- Harvard University—Houghton Library
- Harvard University—Widener Library
- Harvard University, Cambridge—Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Haverford College
- Helen Thoreau Scrapbook
- Henry E. Huntington Library
- Historical and Philosophical Society
- Historical Pennsylvania
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Howard University Library—Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
- Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
- James Rush Collection
- Jay Family Papers
- John B. and Mary A. Estlin Papers, 24.122.28
- John Brown Collection
- John Jones Papers
- John Rylands Library—Manchester, England
- Joshua R. Giddings Papers
- Kansas State Historical Society
- Landon Papers
- Latimer Papers
- Leon Gardiner Collection
- Lewis Tappan Papers
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- Library of Congress
- Livingston Papers
- Lovejoy Papers
- MA Collection
- Maine Historical Society
- Maloney Collection—Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
- Manuscripts Department, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary Papers
- Mary Shadd Cary Papers
- Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Collection
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Meharry Medical College—Nashville, Tennessee
- Microfilm Copy, Frame #175
- Microfilm Copy, Frame #805
- Miles Papers
- Miscellaneous Anti-Slavery Collection
- Miscellaneous Anti-Slavery Papers
- Miscellaneous Bound Anti-Slavery Materials
- Miscellaneous Bound Manuscripts
- Miscellaneous Burn Papers
- Miscellaneous Collections
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
- Miscellaneous Pamphlets
- Mitchell Library—Edinburgh, Scotland
- Mitchell Library—Glasgow, Scotland
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
- Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia.
- Morgan Papers
- Morgan State University Library
- Moses Brown Papers
- MSS, British Empire, C/25/19
- MSS, British Empire, C/27/42
- MSS, British Empire, C103/52
- MSS, British Empire, C110/48
- MSS, British Empire, C119/
- MSS, British Empire, C119/45
- MSS, British Empire, C119/46
- MSS, British Empire, C119/47
- MSS, British Empire, C119/48
- MSS, British Empire, C122/41
- MSS, British Empire, C15/138
- MSS, British Empire, C154/202
- MSS, British Empire, C156/187
- MSS, British Empire, C158/53
- MSS, British Empire, C159/194
- MSS, British Empire, C159/66
- MSS, British Empire, C159/67
- MSS, British Empire, C159/68 and C159/69
- MSS, British Empire, C17/86
- MSS, British Empire, C21/52
- MSS, British Empire, C25/18
- MSS, British Empire, C26/85
- MSS, British Empire, C27/39
- MSS, British Empire, C27/40
- MSS, British Empire, C27/41
- MSS, British Empire, C28/125
- MSS, British Empire, C28/47d
- MSS, British Empire, C28/47G
- MSS, British Empire, C31/65
- MSS, British Empire, C31/66
- MSS, British Empire, C36/138
- MSS, British Empire, C6/127
- MSS, British Empire, C8/128
- MSS, British Empire, C9/141
- MSS, British Empire, G85
- MSS, British Empire, G88
- MSS, British Empire, S17/68
- MSS, British Empire, S30/11
- National Archives
- National Archives Library
- National Library of Canada—Ottawa, Canada
- National Library of Ireland
- National Library of Scotland
- Naval Records Collection, Officers' Letter Books, R.G. 45
- New Bedford Public Library
- New Jersey Historical Society
- New York Historical Society
- New York Public Library
- New York State Library—Education Department
- Newberry Library
- Newport Town Hall, Newport, Rhode Island
- Newspaper Clipping File
- Northampton, Massachusetts Public Library
- Oberlin College
- Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
- Onondaga County Public Library
- Ontario Archives, Toronto, Canada
- Ontario Provincial Archives
- Ontario Provincial Archives, Toronto, Canada
- Ottawa Public Archives
- Painter Papers
- Pamphlet Collection
- Pamphlets
- Passmore Williamson Scrapbook
- Passport Records
- Penn School Papers #3615
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers
- Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Manuscripts
- Pennsylvania Archives, Harrisburg—John Strohm Papers
- Pennypacker Papers
- Petitions to the State Assembly
- Portland Anti-Slavery Society Papers
- Post Papers
- Presbyterian Church Collection
- Presbyterian Historical Society
- Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia
- Princeton University
- Provincial Archives of British Columbia
- Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Queens Borough Public Library—New York
- Queensborough N.Y. Public Library
- R.G. 105, Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen, South Carolina
- R.G. 105, Bureau of Refugees, South Carolina, Assistant Commissioners Letters
- R.G. 107, Secretary of War Letter Received D-471 (115)
- R.G. 393, U.S. Army Continental Commands Department of the South, Letters ans Reports Received Relating to Freedman and Civil Affairs, Series 4112
- R.G. 48, M160—Records of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization
- R.G. 48, M160—Records of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Supression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization
- R.G. 59, Passport Applications
- R.G. 84, Adjutant General's Office, U.S. Colored Troops Division, Letters Received. D-76-1865
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office US Colored Troops Division, Letters Received, D-135-1863
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, 104 US Colored Infantry, Colored Division Letters Received
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, Compiled Military Records, 104 U. S. Colored Infantry
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, Compiled Military Records, 104 U.S. Colored Infantry
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, Compiled Service Records, 104 U.S. Colored Infantry
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, Military Service Record, Personal Papers and Miscellaneous
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, U.S. Colored Troops Division, Letters Received, D-76-1865
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, U.S. Colored Troops, Letters Received
- R.G. 94, Adjutant General's Office, US Colored Troops Division, Letters Received, D-135-1863
- R.G. 94, Adjutant Generals Office, Compiled Military Service Record, Independent Battery, Colored Light Artillery
- R.G. 94, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, U.S. Colored Troops Division, Applications for Appointments
- Racine, Wisconsin—Register of Deeds
- Rapier Papers
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Rare Books
- Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Rare Books Collection
- Records of the American Abolition Society
- Redpath Letterbook
- Redwood Library—Newport, Rhode Island
- Regional History Collection
- Regional History Collection—S.J. Smith Papers
- Remond Papers
- Rhode Island Historical Society
- Rhodes House—Oxford, England
- Rider Collection, Box 152
- Rogers Papers
- Royal Geographic Society Archives—London, England
- Royal Geographical Society Archives, London, England
- Ruffin Family Papers
- Ruffin Papers
- Rutgers University
- Ryerson Papers
- Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society Papers
- Sanderson Papers
- Schomburg Collection
- Scrapbook
- Sella Martin Book
- Seward Papers
- Shadd Cary Papers
- Shadd Collection
- Shadd Family Papers
- Shadd Papers
- Shelf T1/31
- Shiloh Presbyterian Church Records
- Siebert Collection
- Slaughter Collection
- Slavery, Emigration and Colonization Pamphlets
- Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
- Sophia Smith Papers
- Special Collections and Rare Books
- Starr Collection
- Starr Papers
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Stearns Papers
- Still Papers
- Summer Papers
- Sumner Papers
- Syracuse University
- Syracuse University—George Arents Research Library
- Tallcot Family Papers
- Texas Technical University
- Texas Technological College
- The George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
- Toronto City Hall Archives—Toronto, Canada
- Toronto City Hall Archives, Toronto, Canada
- Toronto Public Library—Toronto, Canada
- Torrey Papers
- Town Record Book 34
- Town Records, Volume 65
- Tubman Papers
- U.S. Library of Congress
- U.S. National Archives Library
- Ullman Papers
- United Church Archives, Toronto, Canada
- University of California—Bancroft Library
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan—Clements Library
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- University of North Carolina
- University of Rochester
- University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- University of Windsor—Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Van Renssalaer Papers
- Victor Ullman Papers
- Victoria, British Columbia.
- Villard Papers
- Weed Papers
- Weld-Grimke Papers
- Wendell Phillips Papers
- West Chester Historical Society, Chester, Pennsylvania
- West Chester State College
- Western Anti-Slavery Society Papers
- Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
- Wharton Collection
- White Papers
- Whittier Papers
- William H. Seward Papers
- William L. Clements Library
- Woodbrooke College—Birmingham, England
- Worcester Historical Society
- Wright Papers
- Yale University
- Yale University—Beinecke Library
- Yale University—Sterling Library
- Zebina Eastman Papers

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