Digging Deeper

Internet Research Concerning African American History


Interested in African American History? Here are some interesting links that really helped me with this project:

General African American History Sites

U.S. Department of State: International Information Programs

Index of Sites Pertaining to African American Culture

AFRO-American Almanac

The History Channel: The Best Search in History

The News & Observer: Facts on Slavery

The New York Public Library: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

AFRO-Americ@'s Black History Museum

African American Narratives: An Online Anthology

African American Literature and History


Liturature by and about African American Women

Famous Female Activists and Artists

Biographies and Autobiographies of Black Women

Women of Color, Women of Words

Feldstein, Stanley. Once a Slave: the Slaves’ View of Slavery. New York: William and Morrow and Co., Inc., 1971.

Finkleman, Paul, ed. Articles on American Slavery: Women and the Family in a Slave Society. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Sterling, Dorothy. Black Foremothers: Three Lives. New York: The Feminist Press, 1988.

Sterling, Dorothy, ed. We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Stroud, George M. Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Henry Lonstreth, 1856.

White, Deborah Gray. Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South. New York: W.W. Norton, 1985.


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