Search Databases
Search these databases for more information about slavery and abolition in the United States. These require a BSU login. Please see a reference librarian if you need assistance.
- America: History and Life (with Full Text) [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowBibliographic references, with abstracts, to articles from over 2,000 journals covering American and Canadian history. Also includes citations for book reviews and dissertations.
- Historical New York Times (ProQuest News & Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowSearch the New York Times back to 1851.
- Salem History This link opens in a new windowOnline content from Salem Press with essays covering United States and world history.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA full-image collection of retrospective issues from scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
- Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowAn interdisciplinary collection of more than 650 high quality, peer reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences.
- HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,600 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.
Google Scholar
Films on Demand - Streaming Video
Searchable database of video clips on almost any topic. Begin searching by clicking on the icon above. Some possible search terms are slavery; slave trade; child soldiers; child prostitution; and human trafficking
Selected Books & Videos from Webster
- Black slave narratives byCall Number: E444 .B23
- Great slave narratives byCall Number: E444 .B67
- In the image of God : religion, moral values, and our heritage of slavery byCall Number: HT871 .D28
- North over South : northern nationalism and American identity in the antebellum era byCall Number: E415.7 .G73ISBN: 0700610251
- Slave Culture:A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project byCall Number: E444 .S55 2014
- Slavery and the evolution of Cherokee society, 1540-1866 byCall Number: E99.C5 P394
Electronic Books
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