Search for a Black History Project
This website is a free, searchable directory for online history projects that can help further Black History research. This ongoing project was created to collect information about these digital Black History projects in order to benefit historians, genealogists, and family historians who are researching the lives of Black individuals and families.
406 Search Result(s)
| Project Name | Description | Creator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761 | An interactive map that narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the 18th century British Empire. | Harvard University, Dr. Vincent Brown |
| Slave Revolt Map | Google map on slave revolts-each marker has text, video and audio information | Dr. Ife Williams |
| Slave Societies Digital Archive | A project that preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies. Contains over 700,000 images from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Provides valuable information about the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and about the indigenous, European, and Asian populations who lived alongside them. | Vanderbilt University |
| Slave Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database | Records of over 36,000 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade voyages from 1514-1866. | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship |
| Slavery Adverts 250 | Examines colonial newspaper advertisements and their role in upholding the institution of slavery. Shares a daily advertisement from 250 years ago. | Dr. Carl Robert Keyes |
| Slavery and the Making of the University | "Slavery and the Making of the University" introduces materials that recognize and document the contributions of slaves, college servants and free persons of color primarily during the university's antebellum period. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Libraries |
| Slavery and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Amistad Case | A digital collection of hundreds of letters and documents relating to Amistad v. United States Supreme Court case in 1841 Documents written by Amistad captives, government officials, and others. | Amistad Research Center Tulane University Digital Library |
| Slavery Images | An educational resource that contains images of the experiences of Africans, as well as their descendants, who were enslaved. These include paintings, photographs, lithographs, etc. from before 1900. The project will also include 3D environments to further illustrate these experiences. | Dr. Jerome Handler, Dr. Michael Tuite, University of Colorado Boulder (Office of Research Computing and Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship) |