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Database: African American Experience Online
Description:
The African American Experience is a unique compilation of Internet-accessible digital images of works published from 1693-1830, written by and about members of America's black populace. It is an ideal resource for individuals and students who wish to gain firsthand insight into black history in America.
Created by Readex in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society, the African American Experience is a carefully chosen subset of works from Early American Imprints 1639-1819, one of the most important anthologies ever produced on microform and a staple resource in research library. The contents of the African American Experience extend beyond the limits of that coverage to include additional materials from 1820-1830. The collection includes digital images of imprints ranging from one-sheet broadsides and small pamphlets to books more than 400 pages in length.
The African American Experience seeks to integrate the works of the first black writers in this country with late 18th and early 19th century literature addressing blacks and slavery, including:
- Biographical information related to notable personalities
- Conflicting viewpoints within anti-slavery movements and pro-slavery thought
- Debates regarding why slaves should not be imported into the early American territories
- Definition of master and servant
- Slave narratives revealing real-life experiences
- Captivity narratives
- Slave life, slave insurrections, and runaway slaves
- Original advertisements of rewards for fugitive slaves
- Legal history, crime and punishment, trials
- Government documents that relate to slavery and the slave trade
- African American colonization movement
- Evidence of early black nationalism (e.g., Walker's Appeal)
- Church history
- History of African American literature, early American publishing and individual printers
Dates Coverage: 1693-1830
Subjects: African American
Page updated: April 3, 2007
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