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		Chapter 14 - The Old South: An American Tragedy
	Images and Maps Africans in the Americas (This site includes primary and secondary sources.) The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture Map: Slave Crops in the American South, 1860 Map: Slavery in the American South, 1790-1860 American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass: National Historic Site Sojourner Truth Instititute: Gallery Cane River Creole National Historical Park Located in Natchez, LA (Images of plantations) The Liberator Maps of Liberia: 1830-1870 Black Southerners in the Old South: The Slave Community William Lloyd Garrison   Primary Sources Documenting the American South (A wealth of primary sources. One of the best sites on the web!) Afro-American Alamanac: Historical Documents From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 Anonymous. A Slave's Story "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth The Narrative of Sojourner Truth "Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl," by Harriet Beecher Stowe Frederick Douglass Papers "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery," by Frederick Douglass Etexts: Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass Henry Bibb, Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself Harriet E. Wilson, Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Abolitionism 1830-1850 (This site also contains many images.) Proslavery Counterattack (This site also contains many images.) Watson Family: Slave Account Entries Excerpts from Slave Narratives G. B. Wallace, "Slave Purchases and Breeding: Unruly Slave" The Amistad Case John A. Chandler, "The Speech of John A. Chandler...on the Policy of the State with respect to Her Slave Population" The Liberator: Inaugural Editorial by William Lloyd Garrison, January 1, 1831 American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology   Secondary Sources The Underground Railroad (There are many primary sources at this site.) Howard Jones, "All We Want Is Make Us Free" (An article exploring the Amistad case)     - back to the eReserves Index

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