Hunter College Libraries

The library has a trial of a database  called African American Archives. It provides over 1 million pages of original historical documents. These  documents include:

• Records relating to court cases involving the Spanish schooner Amistad

• Military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops (1861-1866)

• A list of slaves of a plantation owner

• 18^th century records of the auctions of slaves

• Records concerning slavery and emancipation in the Danish West Indies (1672-1917)

•   Documents of the American Colonization Society, an organization which helped to establish Liberia ( a colony for freed American slaves).

Explore this database to discover important primary source materials  concerning the history of African Americans in this country. To access the database click here.