Books

Digitized Books from In Motion and The Abolition of the Slave Trade
You can access more than 430 full length books, book chapters and articles, as well as dozens of manuscripts and tables covering the African and African Diasporan experience from the transatlantic slave trade and slavery and the fight against them to contemporary migrations to, within, and out of the United States.

African-American Women Writers of the 19th Century
An essential collection of 41 full length books representing several genres such as autobiographies, poetry, novels, compilation of slave testimonies, and memoirs. Authors range from the famous like Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Harriett Jacobs, Elizabeth Keckley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Mary Prince, to the anonymous “Old Elizabeth.”