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Digital resource of The Schomburg Center, part of The New York Public Library. It consists of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. These include books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text searchable database, subjects written about include family, religion, and slavery. There are additional research resources presented alongside the database.

Celebrating and documenting the creativity of Asian, Black, Latina, and Native women, VG is one of the internet's most comprehensive and well-respected academic databases for women artists of color. We provide innovative teaching and research tools for accessing a global community of women writers of color living and dead, obscure and renowned. The site reaches backward and forward to place readers, thinkers, students, and educators on a bridge which connects the gaps that exist in literature, society, and culture. Through our student-generated profiles, essays, reviews, and interviews, you can engage with artists whose works put faces on difficult and important issues ranging from immigration to racial prejudice, gendered violence to community resistance.

Scott W. Williams is a Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. Under the name 'Big Mouff', he provides links to a number of his web pages relating to black American writers of novels, poetry, and science fiction. These include substantial individual sites on Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Alice Walker and Chester Himes, and more limited pages on other writers such as Lucille Clifton and Audre Lorde

Brycchan Carey is an academic and author specialising in the history and culture of slavery and abolition in the British Empire. This site offers pages dedicated to black British writers before 1850, in particular Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Ottobah Cugoano, as well as resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, British Abolitionists, and e-texts of otherwise difficult-to-obtain texts, such as eighteenth-century poems about slavery. You will also find images and opinions about Cornwall, Brycchan's childhood home, and Gamlingay, Brycchan's current home. Brycchan's most recent book, on the birth of American antislavery, is From Peace to Freedom.

a site dedicated to African American women who have gifted, shaken up, and disturbed the theatre world with their powerful words. It is a testament to their courage and perseverance. Hopefully, this site will encourage other sister storytellers to make their words heard.

Digital resource of archives held at Duke University, Special Collections Library, Durham, North Carolina, USA. This includes the archives of Elizabeth Johnson Harris, and the slave letters of Vilet Lester, Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson.

provides information on African Canadian artists and their work, links to other Canadian resources on the web, and updates about the activities of the Centre. This website began in 1996 as a course project by students at York University's Atkinson College, and was expanded by another class in the summer of 1998. We invite contributions and updates.

The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.