bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across the Atlantic world, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice.
Kinds of information: primary sources, includes some government documents
Search Tips: start as generally as you can; use limiters like dates and birth dates of known ancestors; be prepared for name variations
Kinds of information: secondary sources; done by professors; download as a PDF; citations; add to a list and personalize and save it;
Search Tips: be specific; great for secondary
All newspaper articles
refine the search by location from country down to the town level
limit search by dates, but it's only 19th and 20th century
Continent of Africa - has about 1/2 the countries
has an interactive maps so you can pick your region visually
can change to other countries with database selection
Can search in the newspapers with "find in page"
Kinds of information: historical statistic sets from US Census data; fully searchable
Search Tips: use "+" to require a word in your results; use a "-" to exclude a word; use "or" and "and" and use quotation marks to search for a phrase
Kinds of information: lots of topics; find something from any time period; peer reviewed articles or books; not like regular google
Search Tips: less words, more sources; more of what you want, be more specific;