The most ambitious project of its kind, Slavery and Anti-Slavery:

A Transnational Archive embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way.

An unparalleled collection on the history of slavery

"Thanks to Gale’s Slavery and Anti-Slavery: Debates over Slavery and Abolition archive, the first of four massive transnational digital archives on slavery, the information we need to research, write, teach, understand, and explain slavery is readily available, and in a comprehensive, usable format.“

— Orville Vernon Burton

Coastal Carolina University

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The most ambitious project of its kind

Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents organized in four parts:

Part I: Debates over Slavery and AbolitionPart II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic WorldPart III: Institution of SlaveryPart IV: Age of Emancipation

The world’s largest archive of the history of slavery

Slavery & Anti-Slavery brings together historical books and pamphlets, legal documents, portraits, maps, manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals.

More than a collection of resources

This primary-source database was prepared for the serious researcher, but also contains extensive reference material that will reach a less expert audience.

Covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery

Legal Issues The Caribbean The American South,

race and the Civil War Children and women

under slavery Modes of resistance Much more

New research possibilities

Make new connections― searching across books, pamphlets, manuscripts, newspapers, and Gale resources*―with Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, and Making of Modern Law: Trials

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New research possibilities

Access rare historical manuscript collections that were previously accessible only through microfilm – or restricted to academic reading rooms in multiple locations

Discover opposing views, enriching lectures, papers and discussions

New research possibilities

New research possibilities

Conduct interdisciplinary and comparative analysis, explore new research questions and take intuitive leaps

Product information and research tools.

Want to see selected images? Browse here! Looking for key

documents? They are here!

Search 1.5 million pages in a single search box.

Conduct advanced searches.

Searchable by document type

Browse the results that best serve your needs – from books and pamphlets to newspapers and periodicals, manuscripts, U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs

Enhanced clarity

The finding aids of all manuscript collections have been updated to include more usable data

Whenever needed and possible, images have been rescanned to improve quality

Access to rare collections

More than a dozen historical collections are presented digitally, in their entirety, adding depth and context to the study of the history of slavery.

The American Missionary Association Archives, 1839-1882, sourced from the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University

The American Colonization Society Papers, sourced from the Library of Congress

Salmon P. Chase Papers

Papers of British abolitionist Sir Thomas Fowell-Buxton

Papers of American abolitionist Lewis Tappan

Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade & Negro Colonization, 1854-1872

Abolitionist periodicals from the Library of Congress

Anti-Slavery Collection from Oberlin College

Records of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia relating to slaves, 1851-1863

And more!

Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition

• Tells the story of the enslavement of Africans from the 16th century through 1888, when slavery was abolished in Brazil.

• Demonstrates the battles and debates that surrounded the practice, experience and eventual abolition of slavery.

Composed of 1.5 million pages, Debates sheds light on:

The Abolitionist movement ― and conflicts within it

Anti-slavery and pro-slavery arguments of the period

Debates on the subject of colonization

Much more

Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition

Transnational Focus

While Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition supports research with a U.S. focus, it also facilitates comparative research with resources from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean – allowing for comparative research

Explore multiple facets of the controversy, focusing on economic, gender, legal, religious and government issues

Multifaceted Study

Distinguished Review Board

Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University;

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ira Berlin, University of Maryland

Laurent Dubois, Duke University

James Horton, George Washington University

Charles Joyner, Coastal Carolina University

Wilma King, University of Missouri-Columbia

Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina

Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney

John Thornton, Boston University

Chris Waldrep, San Francisco State University

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