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This database provides full-text articles from several prominent 19th century African American newspapers including The North Star and Freedom's Journal. Searches can be limited to editorials, an important source of abolitionist sentiments.
JStor is an interdisciplinary collection of journals with a much longer historical scope than most journal databases. As such, this could be an especially useful resource for historiographic research on abolitionism.
This peer-reviewed journal approaches the subjects of slavery and abolition with an interdisciplinary and international focus. This could be a particularly useful source for research topics comparing 19th century American abolitionism to abolitionist movements of other nations or periods.
This database is a collection of over 300 biographical reference sources covering African Americans from the 1790s-1950s. Allows the user to construct searches by geographical region, occupation, gender,religion, or birth and death dates in addition to biographical subject.
A database of history journals on the United States and Canada that covers all periods of history through the present. This is a great source for making connections between abolitionism and its larger historical contexts (i.e. abolitionism and the temperance movement, the emergence of the Free Soil Party, etc.). Try narrowing searches by time period for more focused results.
