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Northern Visions of Race, Region & Reform

An online resource documenting conflicting representations of African-Americans, white Southerners, and reformers during and and immediately after the Civil War. In particular, it looks at the stereotypes popularized in the northern press, and the ways that these depictions were countered--or in some cases, reinforced--in the letters written for northern readers by freedmen's teachers and freedmen themselves...... Read more

Black History Web: A Teacher's Guide to African American Heroes Online

Black History WEB is a free resource for teachers and students searching the web for information (including biographies, timelines, speeches, quotes, documents, lesson plans, trivia, quizzes and more) on famous african-american heroes including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Denmark Vesey, Septima Clark, Nat Turner, etc...... Read more

Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom

These images were selected to meet requests regularly received by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...... Read more

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy

In 1984, a professor at Rutgers University stumbled upon a trove of historic data in a courthouse in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Over the next 15 years, Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a noted New Orleans writer and historian, painstakingly uncovered the background of 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries making fortunes for their owners...... Read more

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

No event in American history matches the drama of emancipation. More than a century later, it continues to stir the deepest emotions, and properly so. In the United States, emancipation accompanied the defeat of the world's most powerful slaveholding class and freed a larger number of slaves than did the end of slavery in all other New World societies combined. Clothed in the rhetoric of biblical prophecy and national destiny and born of a bloody civil war, it accomplished a profound social revolution. The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of that revolution by depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the elite, Northerners and Southerners...... Read more