by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 12, 2025
The Race & Slavery Petitions project, part of the Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) at UNC Greensboro, is a searchable database derived from extensive research spanning 18 years. It aggregates data from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court...
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 12, 2025
The African‑American Religion: A Documentary History Project (AARDOC), based at Amherst College and founded in 1987, aims to produce a multi‑volume printed history of African‑American religious experience, published by the University of Chicago Press. Its online...
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 12, 2025
The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and published by UNC Press in 2008, is a two‑volume annotated collection offering nearly 300 primary source documents from over 900 discovered items relating to Harriet Jacobs, her activist brother John S....
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 12, 2025
The MGPP program at UCLA’s African Studies Center focuses on the legacy of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). It examines Garvey’s historical significance as a leader within the broader African and African‑American struggle for...
by Erica Cavanaugh | Aug 12, 2025
The Freedmen and Southern Society Project, established in 1976 at the University of Maryland, produces a documentary history of emancipation during the Civil War and early Reconstruction (1861–1867) through firsthand voices of freed African‑Americans, former...
