Primary Sources: Digital Collections

African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections [online]. Durham, NC: Special Collections Library, Duke University, 1997 [cited 29 November 2001]. Available from: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html.
A total of five slave letters from 1837, 1838 and 1857.

Bibliography of Sources on Jefferson and the Hemings Family [online]. Charlottesville: Special Collections Department, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, last modified 4 June 2001 [cited 29 November 2001]. Available from: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/tj/hemingsbib.html.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 [online]. [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, 2000. Available from: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html.

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present [online]. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1998- [cited 16 October 2000]. Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/hhhome.html.
Includes numerous images of slave cabins and quarters. Search by keyword for slave.

Costa, Tom. The Geography of Slavery in Virginia [online]. Charlottesville: Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia, 1999- . Available from: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/.
Runaway slave advertisements from 18th century Virginia newspapers. Limiting a search by sex to "female" retrieves 592 hits.

The Dred Scott Case [online]. St. Louis: Washington University, c2000 [cited 29 November 2001]. Available from: http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/.
Also see Scott Hauser's article, Law Professor Shines Light on 'Mrs. Dred Scott'.

Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence [online]. [New Haven, Conn.]: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, [2005]. Available from: http://www.yale.edu/glc/harriet/index.htm
This site offers 15 documents, including an advertisement for the capture of Harriet Jacobs (1835), letters from Jacobs, and a contemporary review of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

North American Slave Narratives [online]. Chapel Hill: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina, 1998 [cited 24 May 1999]. Available from: http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html.

Priscilla's Homecoming [online]. [New Haven, Conn.]: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, [2005]. Available from: http://www.yale.edu/glc/priscilla/index.htm.
In 1756, 10 year old Priscilla was taken on the slave ship Hare from Sierra Leone to South Carolina.

Race & Slavery Petitions Project [online]. Greensboro: Department of History, The University of North Carolina, 2000- [cited 2 August 2002]. Available from: http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions/.
Samples from Loren Schweninger's massive slave petitions project.

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2002 [cited 28 May 2002]. Available from: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html.
The subject index includes entries for "Crandall, Prudence," "Johnson, Jane," "Reed, Margaret Allison Ross," and "Women slaves--Africa."

Commerical Collections

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, ed. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860 [CD-ROM]. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
This collection of over 100,000 records from civil documents, manuscripts, and published censuses provides valuable source material about the lives of slaves and slaveholders.