Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents selected by a board of scholars and organized in four parts:
Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition
Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World
Part III: Institution of Slavery
Part IV: Age of Emancipation
The first part of Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is available now and contains more than 6,000 books and pamphlets, more than 60 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections. Sources range from well-known journals to private papers. The 1.5 million pages in Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition shed light on the:
- Abolitionist movement and conflicts within it
- Anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period
- Debates on the subject of colonization
- And more
