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Slavery (Researching Slavery)

This guide provides access to print and electronic resources available from the ASU Library. The focus is on books and research databases.

About the Hyperlinked Searches

The pages within the Available Books tab (menu) are an alphabetical listing of all Library of Congress Subject Headings focused on Abolitionists. African American abolitionists. African American women abolitionists. African Americans -- Colonization. African diaspora. Child slaves. Free African Americans. Freedmen. Fugitive enslaved persons. Fugitive slave communities. Fugitive slaves. Plantation life. Plantation owners. Plantation owners spouses. Slave insurrections. Slave labor. Slave narratives. Slave ships. Slave trade. Slave traders. Slaveholders. Slaves' writings. Underground railroad. Women abolitionists. Women slaves.

Entries in the list were gathered through consultation of the Library of Congress Catalog - Browse ("Subjects beginning with" and "Subjects containing" options) - which is part of the LC Subject Headings (LCSH) [controlled vocabulary] Linked Data Service suite of the Library of Congress.

  • Each of the various LCSHs were searched against the ASU Library Catalog.
  • When 1 or more results match the subject heading a persistent hyperlink has been created.