Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom
Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Houghton Library, Harvard University’s largest rare books and manuscripts repository, is home to hundreds of thousands of materials relating to African American history in North America. This wonderful website is being developed to provide free access to a range of digitised primary source items – manuscripts, photos, letters and organisational documents. Themes include women’s voices, conventions, slave narratives and emancipation.
There are also teaching resources.
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