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Slavery: British

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The papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1786-1845	The papers of Sir Thomas Fowell-Buxton, abolitionist and reformer, are crucial to the study of the abolition of slavery. In 1822, Buxton succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of Great Britain's anti-slavery movement. He was concerned with the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, and with the suppression of slave trade on the high seas. He joined Wilberforce and others in founding the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1823. This collection provides valuable material for the examination of slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries, the colonization and "Christianization" of Africa and the Empire, and the parliamentary and extra-parliamentary history of the abolitionist movement. Guide available.	MICFILM 3139	No
The Rhodes House Library, Oxford, Anti-slavery collection: 1795-1880	The Rhodes House Library has the largest collection of anti-slavery material in Britain. Among the organizations whose records are included in the collection are: the London Anti- Slavery Society (Buxton's Society, 1823-1840); and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. The bulk of the selection is from the files of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society whose goal was the abolition of slavery throughout the world. It includes minute books of this society, 1839-1868 and memorials and petitions, 1839-1850. Guide available.	MICFILM 3063	No
The slave trade, 1858-1892: British Foreign Office	The slave trade was abolished in 1807 throughout the British Empire. Owning of slaves was abolished in 1833. As master of the seas, English vessels scoured the Atlantic looking for ships that might contain illegal human cargo. This collection includes correspondence and reports from 1858-1892 regarding the slave trade from British slave trade commissioners and naval officers worldwide, as well as court and commission records. The documents provide information such as: names of slave ships and British vessels; lists of the vessels, captains and crews; dates when slave ships were seized, where they were captured and emancipated; and the statute under which sentence was passed.	MICFILM 3195	No
Wilberforce: slavery, religion and politics	William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was an English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade. He wrote memoranda on different subjects, the most famous being his unfinished sketch of Pitt - but the sheer volume of his correspondence alone would have buried most men. He often wrote and received as many as twenty letters a day, and few of them were short.The collection also includes the papers of his sons, Robert and Samuel. Digital guide.	MICFILM 4003	No

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Anti-slavery collection: 18th-19th centuries	Originally from the Library of the Society of Friends, this collection contains anti-slavery tracts, pamphlets, and journals pertaining to the abolition movement for ending the African slave trade. Guide available.	MICFILM 1283	No
Annuals / Journals of Black Baptist (National) Conventions in America	This collection inculdes the annual reports of several African-American Baptist conventions, dating from 1842-1974.	MICFILM 4071	No
Southern Baptist Convention (1845-1953)	This collection includes minutes, proceedings, historical records of Southern Baptist Convention and it's annual meeting.	MICFILM 106	No

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Religion: Missions

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African archives of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel	A mission organization of the Church of Englandm, it was formed in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and renamed following a merger with Universities' Mission to Central Africa in 1965. The microfilm contains all correspondence and reports concerning Anglican missions in South Africa prior to diocesan organization, and concerning five dioceses: Capetown, 1847-1900; Grahamstown, 1853-1900; Natal (Maritzburg), 1853-1900; St. John's-Kaffraria, 1874-1900; and Zululand, 1866-1900. Guide available.	MICFILM 1521	No
American Missionary Association archives. Alabama	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1714	No
American Missionary Association archives. Flordia	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1715	No
American Missionary Association archives. Georgia	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1716	No
American Missionary Association archives. Louisiana	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1717	No
American Missionary Association archives. Mississippi	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1718	No
American Missionary Association archives. North Carolina	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1719	No
American Missionary Association archives. Virginia	The American Missionary Association (AMA) was established in 1846 as an interdenominational missionary society devoted to abolitionist principles. The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the futile efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1720	No
Church Missionary Society Archive	The official archives of the Church Missionary Society comprise the records of the administrative departments at the Society's headquarters, principally the General Secretary's, Finance, Medical, Candidates and Women's Departments, and the records of its Overseas Missions. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3309	No
Church of Scotland missionary archive from the National Library of Scotland	The Church of Scotland entered the mission field in 1824 and sent its first missionaries to Bombay in 1829, to Calcutta in 1830, to Poona in 1834 and to Madras in 1837. Digital guide.	MICFILM 4363	No
Gold Coast Records of the U.S.P.G., 1753-1933	Reverend Thomas Thompson instigated this Mission, arriving at Cape Coast Castle in 1752. The period from 1903 onwards is the most substantially documented, recording the amalgamation of the Missions for the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, the spread of English education, the introduction of education for women and the development of missionary work in an ever-widening area.	MICFILM 4042	No
Methodist Episcopal Church missionary correspondence, 1846-1912	Organized by the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York in 1819, the Missionary Society aided the Annual Conferences in spreading the gospel and benevolent and charitable work in domestic and foreign missions. In 1907, the Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) was created to absorb the Missionary Society's duties in foreign work, promotion and support of Christian missions, and educational institutions in foreign countries. The BFM was succeeded in 1912 by the Division of Foreign Missions.	MICFILM 4366	No
Missionary files: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1912-1949	This correspondence was begun under the Board of Foreign Missions and continued by the Division of Foreign Missions of the Board of Missions and Church Extension. It is composed of outgoing correspondence, which contains letters to missionaries from the Board (or Division) of Foreign Missions, and incoming correspondence, which contains letters from missionaries to the Board. Correspondence is filed together under each missionary’s name.	MICFILM 4375	Yes
Papers of the Christian Faith Society, 1642-1972	The Christian Faith Society originated in 1691 from a bequest of Robert Boyle, a director of the East India Company, for "the advancement of the Christian religion amongst infidels". The Society was renamed in 1794 as the Society for the Conversion and Religious Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands. Particular undertakings of the Society included the awarding of grants to the William and Mary College in Virginia, for the education of young Native Americans, and missionary work amongst slaves in the Caribbean, Mauritius and other British dependencies. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1366	No
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 1833-1911	The Board of Foreign Missions (BFM) was established in 1837 by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (PCUSA), launching a worldwide missionary operation destined to embrace nearly fifteen countries on four continents. The records of BFM of the Presbyterian church provides insight on social conditions in developing Third World nations and on efforts to spread Christianity during the 19th century. These records contain a wealth of correspondence and reports relating to China, India, Korea, and Japan. The vast majority of material is incomming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the board headquarters. Guide available.	MICFILM 4358	No
Regions beyond missionary union archive	The Regions Beyond Missionary Union (RBMU) dates back to 1873 and Henry Grattan Guiness's pioneering missionary work in the East End of London. As it evolved, the RBMU specialised in the training of missionaries and sponsoring missions at the boundaries of Empire - literally reaching the parts that other missionary organisations found it difficult to reach. Digital guide.	MICFILM 4152	No
Slavery tracts and pamphlets from the West India Committee collection	A collection of pamphlets on the sugar trade of the West Indies and its slave labor. Included are many items not easily found in other public collections. There are approximately 350 pamphlets, including some by Wilberforce Macaulay. Guide available.	MICFILM 1365	No

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Russia (encompassing former Soviet Union)

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The Association of Workers of Revolutionary Cinematography (1923-1932)	This collection features microfilm copies of interviews, articles, speech transcripts and surveys from members of the Association of Workers of Revolutionary Cinematography. The documents are in the Russian language. Guide available.	MICFILM 4185	No
Confidential U.S. diplomatic post records - Russia and the Soviet union, 1914-1941	Thousands of pages document this pivotal quarter century, spanning the last days of czarist rule to the early campaigns of World War II. These Diplomatic Post Records include the voluminous files from the U.S. listening post at Riga, as well as reports on foreign affairs from U.S. consulates elsewhere. The diplomatic posts served as the United States’ "eyes and ears" on Russia and the emerging USSR during those turbulent years. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1704	No
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. The Soviet Union, 1960-January 1963	Foreign policy and the resultant crises were major concerns of the Soviet government during the early 1960s. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev concentrated on increasing the strength and international position of the USSR, particularly in Europe and the newly independent countries of the old colonial empires. Digital guide.	MICFILM 4102	No
Confidential U.S. State Department central files: the Soviet Union foreign affairs, 1945-1949	This collection includes files relating to Soviet foreign affairs prepared for the President of the United States by this field of State Department regional experts. Included in the collection are US State Department files relating to the repatriation of German prisoners of war from the Soviet Union following World War Two; Soviet boundary disputes involving the People's Republic of China, Bulgaria, Hungary, Iran Romania, and Turkey; and Soviet economic, non-aggression, and peace treaties with the People's Republic of China. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1579	No
Confidential U.S. State Department central files: the Soviet Union foreign affairs, 1950-1954	This collection combines diplomatic reports from Moscow with intelligence records; transcripts and reports from Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Camp David meetings with President Eisenhower; minutes from Communist party meetings in the USSR; and analyses from the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the White House. The result is a major source of documents on the rise of a world superpower from the ashes of war. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1580	No
Confidential U.S. State Department central files: the Soviet Union internal affairs, 1945-1949	This collection includes files relating to Soviet foreign affairs prepared for the President of the United States by this field of State Department regional experts. Included in the collection are US State Department files relating to the repatriation of German prisoners of war from the Soviet Union following World War Two; Soviet boundary disputes involving the People's Republic of China, Bulgaria, Hungary, Iran Romania, and Turkey; and Soviet economic, non-aggression, and peace treaties with the People's Republic of China. Digital guide.	MICFILM 2093	No
Confidential U.S. State Department central files: the Soviet Union internal affairs, 1950-1954	This collection combines diplomatic reports from Moscow with intelligence records; transcripts and reports from Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Camp David meetings with President Eisenhower; minutes from Communist party meetings in the USSR; and analyses from the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the White House. The result is a major source of documents on the rise of a world superpower from the ashes of war. Digital guide.	MICFILM 2094	No
Fond 89, declassified documents	Includes documents that support the Russian government's brief in the court case over the government's ban of the Communist Party. It was the government's task in that case to prove the party an illegal, parasitic, extraconstitutional body that controlled all the institutions and funds of both state and society behind a veil of secrecy and deceit. Among the files of fond 89 are more than two thousand secret and top-secret Politburo, Central Committee, KGB, military, and Foreign Ministry documents. Fond 89 is of particular value since it contains previously unavailable materials from the period of perestroika under Gorbachev (1985–91), including several partial transcripts of Politburo meetings. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3292	No
Kalinin, M.I. (1875-1968) (Leaders of the Russian Revolution, part 9)	The documents reproduced come from the Russian Centre for the Preservationand Study of Documents of Most Recent History (RTsKhIDNI), known until 1991 asthe Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Kalinin was a member of the St. Petersburg-based "Union for Struggle of the Liberation of the Working Class" and a founder of the RDSRP. One of the very few leading Bolsheviks to come from a working-class background, he was first arrested and exiled for his revolutionary activities in 1899. Guide available.	MICFILM 3280	No
The Moscow Lenin Order Mosfilm Studio (1938-1945)	Soviet cinema became one of the most influential in the world, and its foremost directors are in the pantheon of filmmakers. Although Soviet film production was divided among various studios, the largest and most prestigious during the era of the Great Patriotic War was Mosfilm in Moscow. It was in this premier studio that some of the landmarks in Russian cinema were imagined and produced. Digital guide.	MICFILM 4243	No
Records of the All Union Communist Party, Smolensk District, 1917-1941	The records of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union relating to Smolensk. On January 2, 1919, the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in Smolensk, but its government moved to Minsk as soon as the Polish interventionists had been driven out of the Belarusian capital several months later. During World War II Smolensk was the stage for the Battle of Smolensk. The first Soviet counteroffensive against the German army was launched here in August 1941.	MICFILM 3272	No
The Richard Nixon national security files. USSR and Eastern Europe: national security files, 1969-1974	Covering the USSR under Leonid Brezhnev, the file on USSR and Eastern Europe, 1969–1974 includes intelligence estimates on the ABM and SALT issues, and the East-West conflict in the Third World, as well as reflections on the political changes that occurred in Eastern Europe in the early 1970s.	MICFILM 4301	No
Russia in transition: the diplomatic papers of David R. Francis, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1916-1918	The diplomatic reporting of Francis and his staff provides an almost daily flow of news summaries and analyses on the volatile state of Russian politics. There are reports on the policies of Lenin, anarchist movements, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the Council of the Workingmen’s Deputies, Trotsky, Kerensky, Kornilov, political parties, the revolution in Siberia, peasant and labor unrest, living conditions, elections, counter-revolutionary activities — and many other topics. Guide available.	MICFILM 2086	No
The Soviet Union and republics of the former U.S.S.R.: special studies, 1992-1994	The Special Studies series offers federally commissioned, in-depth research on topics of the highest priority from leading public and private research facilities. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3313	No
The Soviet Union - special studies (1970-1991)	The Special Studies series offers federally commissioned, in-depth research on topics of the highest priority from leading public and private research facilities. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3327	No
U.S. military intelligence reports. The Soviet Union, 1919-1941	The U.S. military intelligence reports on the Soviet Union for 1919–1941 provide data on the major events of the formative decades of the Soviet Union: the civil war between Red and White forces; intervention by foreign troops following the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks; the organization of the Red Army; the purge of Red Army officers; the pact with Germany; preparation for war; and the surprise attack by Germany. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1709	No
U.S. military intelligence reports. The Soviet Union, 1941-1944	In many respects the eastern front was the main theater of the Second World War. The Soviet Union endured the most massive battles, suffered the largest loss of life, and emerged from the war with a leading role in the world. These military intelligence reports chronicle all of the major events of the eastern front. In addition, the reports contain material on Soviet industrial production during the war, on the attitudes of the Soviet citizenry toward the invading Germans, on the overhaul of the Soviet military leadership, and on all of the other developments that ultimately led to a Soviet victory and to the postwar reordering of European and world affairs. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1710	No

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Science: history of science

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The early letters and classified papers, 1660-1740: from the archives of the Royal Society	The Early Letters collect the Society’s official scientific correspondence from its founding in 1660 to 1740—some 4,237 items recording the often lively debates among scientists concerning new theories and discoveries. Among the many illustrious names of the period represented are Robert Boyle, Magnus Celsius, Edmund Halley, Johannes Hevelius, Robert Hooke, Christian Huygens, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Martin Lister, John Locke, Cotton Mather, and Isaac Newton. Guide available.	MICFILM 3334	No
Letters and papers of Robert Boyle: from the archives of the Royal Society	This collection includes 7 guardbooks of correspondence dating from the 1640s until Boyle's death in 1691. The material is classified under the headings Theology, Philosophy, Science, Physiology, and Miscellaneous. Included are notes on experiments, drafts of published treatises, unpublished writings, writing fragments, juvenilia, Latin translations, and much more. Most of the material is published for the first time. The Boyle notebooks contain manuscript material collected by Boyle on a broad range of ideas and topics. Guide available.	MICFILM 3333	No
Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books: list no. 6 (History of science: astronomy, botany, chemistry, physics, medicine)	Compiled from Jesuit archives, this collection contains 65 works on science originally published between 1506-1773. Guide available.	MICFILM 224	No
Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books: list no. 7 (History of science: mathematics, geography, and related subjects)	Compiled from Jesuit archives, this collection contains 72 works on science originally published between 1503-1794. Guide available.	MICFILM 225	No
Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books: list no. 10 (History of science: astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry)	Compiled from Jesuit archives, this collection contains 65 works on science originally published between 1499-1818. Guide available.	MICFILM 238	No
Microfilms of rare and out-of-print books: list no. 62: History of science and mathematics	Collection of 16th-19rh century imprints from the Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Guide available.	MICFILM 478	No

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Science: key figures

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Dana family papers, 1859-1925	These papers relating to James Dwight Dana, nineteenth-century naturalist, mineralogist, and geologist, contain his correspondence and papers documenting his teaching years at Yale University and his scientific voyages, on a Mediterranean excursion, 1833-34, and as a member of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Correspondents included Louis Agassiz, Harriet Dwight Dana, James Dana, Charles Darwin, Timothy Dwight, Sr., Asa Gray, Arnold Guyot, Benjamin Silliman, Sr., and Charles Wilkes. The papers of Edward Salisburg Dana, 1849-1935, are also included. Guide available.	MICFILM 3411	No
The papers of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1782-1878	The collection documents Schoolcraft's career as glass manufacturer in Vermont and New Hampshire. Mineralogy, geology and ethnolgy are the subjects documented throughout the collection. Schoolcraft's writings include material on American Indians, his history, language, mythology, maxims, characteristics, and potential. He also documented the past and future roles of the federal government and the Indian, Indian hieroglyphics and picture writing, and religion as practiced by the Indians, and Christian missionary work among the tribes.	MICFILM 3547	No
Thomas A. Edison papers: a selective microfilm edition	The Edison Papers show directly the interrelatedness of technological innovation and cultural change. Edison’s development and promotion of inventions such as the phonograph and the kinetoscope and his marketing of sound recordings and motion pictures both reflected and disrupted the cultural practices of his time. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1505	No

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Slavery: American

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Abolition & emancipation	This project brings together a strong group of papers from libraries and museums froma round the world. An extensive assembly, it is divided into six colelctions categorized from their source location. The colleciton includes the papers of leading figures in the movement for the Abolition of Slavery, such as Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe & William Wilberforce. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3413	No
Anti-slavery collection: 18th-19th centuries	Originally from the Library of the Society of Friends, this collection contains anti-slavery tracts, pamphlets, and journals pertaining to the abolition movement for ending the African slave trade. Guide available.	MICFILM 1283	No
Black Abolitionist papers, 1830-1865	The collection, gathered from over 100 libraries, contains writings, speeches, correspondence, other manuscripts and printed materials of African-Americans involved in the anti-slavery movement. Topics covered are: Northern/Southern separatism within the church; black colonization and emigration; black political action; church support of black educational institutions; and black intellectual and social life. Guide available.	MICFILM 3161	No
The Boyd B. Stutler collection of John Brown papers	John Brown (1800 – 1859) was an American abolitionist, the first white abolitionist to advocate and to practice guerrilla warfare as a means to the abolition of slavery. His attempt to start a slave rebellion in 1859 electrified the nation. Brown's subsequent capture by federal forces commanded by Robert E. Lee, his trial for treason to the state of Virginia, and his execution by hanging were an important part of the origins of the American Civil War Digital guide.	MICFILM 1291	No
Letters received by the Secretary of the Navy from commanding officers of squadrons, 1841-1886: African Squadron, 1843-1861	Pre-Civil War records regarding the enforecment of banning the slave trade.	MICFILM 136	No
Papers of the American slave trade	The collection documents the international slave trade in Britain’s New World colonies and the United States from 1718 to the trade’s demise after 1808. Materials primarily come from the slave trading ports in Rhode Island and North Carolina. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3386	No
Race, slavery, and free blacks: petitions to southern legislatures, 1777-1867	The collections include virtually all extant legislative and county court petitions on the subject of race and slavery. The documents were written by a broad range of persons, including blacks and whites, males and females, slaveholders and nonslaveholders. Digital guide.	MICFILM 3551	No
Race, slavery, and free blacks: Series II, Petitions to southern county courts, 1775-1867	The collections include virtually all extant legislative and county court petitions on the subject of race and slavery. The documents were written by a broad range of persons, including blacks and whites, males and females, slaveholders and nonslaveholders. Digital guide.	MICFILM 4126	No
The records of the American Colonization Society	The purpose of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817, was to help freed slaves emigrate from the United States to Africa, and it was instrumental in establishing the colony of Liberia. Its membership was a mix of both pro- and anti-slavery individuals who believed colonization was the best way to deal with racial problems. The Society achieved limited success in its endeavors prior to the 1860's. After the Civil War and the end of slavery, the Society's activities centered primarily on helping people who wished to emigrate to Liberia and on providing funds for their support after arrival in Africa. In the twentieth century, the Society was concerned chiefly with the support of education in Liberia. Guide available.	MICFILM 3409	No
Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870	The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine. The Bureau also assumed custody of confiscated lands or property in the former Confederate States, border states, District of Columbia, and Indian Territory. Guide available.	MICFILM 3208	No
Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869	The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, clothing and medicine. The Bureau also assumed custody of confiscated lands or property in the former Confederate States, border states, District of Columbia, and Indian Territory. Guide available.	MICFILM 1200	No
Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the suppression of the African slave trade and Negro colonization, 1854-1872	The collection records relating to the suppression of the slave trade and the colonization of recaptured and free blacks. By Acts of 1807 and 1819, Congress prohibited the importation of slaves into the United States and the act of 1819 authorized the President to employ U.S. armed vessels to seize any ships or vessels of the United States engaged in slave trade, also to return the captured Africans to Africa and to appoint agents on the coast of Africa to receive the returned Africans. The records include communications relating to colonization in Liberia, British Honduras, the Danish West Indies, and Haiti; Letters regarding the capture of slave ships and the suppression of the slave trade; communications from the president, 1861-1865; and prosecutions for slave smuggling. Guide available.	MICFILM 135	No
Slave trade book and pamphlet collection, 1680-1865	Filmed from the Heartman Manuscript Collection: Manuscripts on Slavery, housed at Xavier University in New Orleans, the collection provides insight into the civil and legal status of enslaved blacks. The New Orleans Municipal records are an extremely valuable source of information on the work and leisure activities of the 19th century slaves, and the Xavier library also holds the only surviving manuscripts of official slave-auction records. Guide available.	MICFILM 1528	Yes
Slavery in ante-bellum Southern industries	While most of the slave labor force in the antebellum South worked in agriculture, a small, often overlooked percentage toiled in industry: in iron and gold mining, naval stores production, metal fabricating, brick making, quarrying, tobacco processing, and railroad construction. The collection includes records of these industries, and also chronicles the transition from slavery to a free labor system during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Although the selections concentrate on the antebellum era, several run well beyond the end of the Civil War. Digital guide.	MICFILM 1742	No
Slavery tracts and pamphlets from the West India Committee collection	A collection of pamphlets on the sugar trade of the West Indies and its slave labor. Included are many items not easily found in other public collections. There are approximately 350 pamphlets, including some by Wilberforce Macaulay. Guide available.	MICFILM 1365	No