SELECTED RESOURCES IN HISTORY
Gender and Slave Labor
History 300., 2/22/00
REFERENCE SOURCES:
Finkleman, Paul and Miller, Joseph, eds. Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery
New York: Macmillan Reference USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan; London: Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International, c1998.
HAYDEN REFERENCE HT861 .M24 1998 2vols.
Harison, Cyntia Ellen. Women in American history: a bibliography
Santa Barbara, Calif.: American Bibliographical Center—Clio Press, c1979-
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1410 .H375X V.1
HAYDEN REFERENCE HQ1410 .H375X V.2
Palais, E. S., ed. Primary sources in History: A guide to Microform Collections at Arizona State University. 2nd ed. Tempe: Arizona State University Libraries, 1991.
D 5 .A75 1991 HAYDEN REF and MICROFORM REF
Describes significant collections held and ASU, University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, and selected titles and the Center for Research Libraries.
Rodiguez, Junius P. Chronology of world slavery Santa Barbara, Calif.; Oxford: ABC-CLIO, c1999.
HAYDEN REFERENCE HT861 .R63 1999
Rodiguez, Junius P. The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery Santa Barbara, Calif.; Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1997. v. 1. A-K –v. 2. L-Z..
HAYDEN REFERENCE HT861 .H57 1997
Schomberg Center African American desk reference New York; Chichester: Wiley, c1999.
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .A37X 1999
Smith, Dwight Afro-American history: a bibliography Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO
HAYDEN REFERENCE E185 .S59x
While somewhat dated (1974), this work has an extensive bibliographic chapter (pp. 103-325) on slavery entitled “Slavery & Freedom (1783-1865)”
ONLINE INDEXES:
America: History and Life, 1954-: Indexes and abstracts over 2,400 articles, bibliographic citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the USA and Canada from prehistoric to the present time.
Archives USA: Access to special collection details of more than 4,400 repositories includes records with complete detailed indexes for approximately 100,000 individual collections.
Documenting the American South A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (1910+) (Full text 1998+) Covers cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, & political issues of relevant to the Black Studies discipline. Includes citations from scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the U.S., Africa & the Caribbean.
JSTOR: Includes long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology.
Making of America (1800-1925) Full text of primary sources in American social history from the Antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
Periodicals Contents Index, 1770-1990/91: PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES:
Yahoo/U.S.History/Slavery:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S_History/By_Subject/Slavery/
Yahoo is my search engine of choice when I begin an Internet Search. Its History sections are excellent. Because of its subject and hierarchical structure, it is the closest to a Library of the Internet.
American Memory Collections – Library of Congress: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.new.html
The collection includes not only digitized documents and maps, but also photos and prints, motion pictures and sound recordings. Some of the subjects covered are: African-Americans; Baseball; California folk music; Gold rush history; Congressional documents, 1774-1873; Civil War photographs; Conservation; early motion pictures; the Dust bowl; and the women’s suffrage movement.
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology:
Http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities and on small farms. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., the American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).
African-American Women: Online Archival Collections:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/African-american-women.html
A select collection of primary source materials from the Special Collections Department at Duke University.
Black Resistance: Slavery in the United States:
http://www.afroam.org/history/slavery/main.html
An example of a more specialized and individualized Internet site.
If you have questions concerning these sources, please contact Edward Oetting at: edding@asu.edu
Edward C. Oetting
Reference Librarian
History/Political Science Bibliographer
Hayden Reference Team
Arizona State University
(480) 965 - 4579
edding@asu.edu
