Cultural Heritage II: The Atlantic World: Books

When searching for primary documents about slavery you will run across documents with a LAC call number.  These documents are on ultrafiche, which is very difficult to read.  Many of these documents are freely available as e-books on the web and many have a link to the electronic version in the HopeCat record.  If a link is not available, do a google search for the title of the item.

Example: Negro slavery unjustifiable [microform] : a discourse / by Alexander McLeod ... 1802

Searching Tips

• Try different groups of keywords to see what different kinds of results you get
• From the results, click on a title that looks interesting; your search terms will show up in red.
• Look for Subject headings in the record that match your topic and try searching under these as a subject search.
• Also, if you click on one of the subject headings links in a record, it will bring up a list of similar subjects that might also be helpful.

Books, pamphlets and other published materials:

Slavery:

• Perform a subject search on HopeCat
• Subject headings include:
  
  • "Slavery"
  • "Slavery and the Church"
  • "Slavery Anti Slavery Movements United States"
  • "Slavery Fiction"
  • "Slavery in the United States"
  • "Slavery Justification"
  • "Slavery Law and Legislation in the United States:
  • "Slavery United States Personal Narratives"
  • Books that discuss slavery in specific states
• The majority of the texts are from the Nineteenth Century.

Anti-Slavery:

• Perform a subject search on HopeCat
• Subject headings include:
  
  • "Anti Slavery Movements Fiction"
  • "Anti Slavery Movements United States"
  • "Anti Slavrey Movements Pennsylvania Gettysburg"
• The majority of these texts are from the Nineteenth Century

Abolition:

• Perform a subject search on HopeCat
• Subject headings include:
  • "Abolitionists"
  • "Abolitionists Pennsylvania Fiction"
  • "Abolitionists Pennsylvania Gettysburg"
• Note: When searching the subject heading "Abolitionism" one will be directed to see "Antislavery Movements"
• The majority of these texts are from the Nineteenth Century

Africa or other geographic regions

• Perform a Keyword search on HopeCat
  • Slavery and Africa

Specific aspects of slavery

• Perform a Keyword search on HopeCat (use * to truncate a word)
  
  • Slave* and Children
  • Slavey and Christianity