HIST 190/WGST 290-US Women's and Gender History & Harriet Tubman, Carroll: Databases & further research

This guide compiles links to digital materials related to Harriet Tubman such as documents, books, and images that are available from the Library of Congress. In addition, it provides links to recommended external websites focusing on Harriet Tubman.

Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. The published volumes containing edited slave narratives are arranged alphabetically by the state in which the interviews took place and thereunder by the surname of the informant.

Correspondence, speeches, writings, court records, slave records, slave deeds, emancipation and manumission papers, birth and marriage records, wills, family and genealogical papers, military records, financial records, ships' papers, broadsides, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers pertaining to African Americans from the colonial period through the early twenty-first century. Subjects include the slave trade, slaves, medical care of slaves, fugitive slaves, abolition, emancipation, manumission, freedmen, free blacks, civil rights, and military service, in particular during the American Civil War.

The recordings of former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-two interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.