ULibraries Research Guides: The Third Crossing dramaturgy: Slavery

Selected Titles: Slaves at Monticello

Enslaved People at Monticello: Domestic, Skilled Trade, and Field Worker
Slavery and the Making of America
(PBS) Texts, images, audio recordings. Topics covered: history of slavery, legal rights, family, gender, living conditions, education, arts, culture, religion, and emancipation.
Documenting the American South: Virginia Slaves' Writings
Primarily digital reproductions of published, first-person narratives, including text and images. Well worth exploring beyond this initial page.
Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
From the Collections of the Library of Congress
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
PBS. WGBH-Boston. America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries
Unearthing America's Secrets: These American Lives
PBS. Scientific American Frontiers. "Archeologists Marley Brown and Fraser Neiman uncover evidence that reveals much about the lives of slaves in America during the colonial period up through the 19th Century."

Horrors of slavery, or, the American tars in Tripoli by William Ray, 1808
(NOTE: Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this book.) Available as an e-book, which can be accessed on the UofU campus or with an active uNID when off-campus.