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The Internet Resources | Slavery and African American History-The African-American Mosaic | Other Slavery Resources | African-American and 'Buffalo' Soldiers

The Internet Resources

• The African-American Mosaic - The Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.

• The Sixteen Largest American Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules - Transcribed By Tom Blake

• Slavery and Religion in America: A Time Line 1440-1866

• IPL Collections

• Africans in America - America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses.

Slavery and African American History-The African-American Mosaic

• Colonization

• Abolition

• Migrations

• Cavalcade of the American Negro

• Authors and the Federal Writers' Project

• History Line- African-American Voices - Links to site to inform about Slavery and the African-Americans.

• Slavery - Links to many categories on slavery

Other Slavery Resources

• Sojourner Truth - A web site of the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project in Florence, Mass.

• Personal Stories - 'MY BEDSTEAD CONSISTED OF A BOARD WIDE ENOUGH TO SLEEP ON' Francis Henderson was 19 when he managed to escape from a slave plantation outside of Washington, D.C., in 1841. Here, he describes conditions on his plantation.

• Turner's Confession - Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, Thomas R. Gray of the said District, deposited in this office the title of a book, which is in the words as following.

African-American and 'Buffalo' Soldiers

• Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars

• The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

• Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients - The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

• The 9th Cavalry - The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

• The 10th Cavalry - The Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier