Primary Sources


Antislavery in New England
This is an online collection of 100 digitized abolitionist pamphlets from the UMass Special Collections, with a particular emphasis on materials from Massachusetts and Connecticut.  The website allows you to view these materials page-by-page, zoom in for detail, and to format for printing.

This website is an online collection of 10,000 antislavery documents from Cornell University which are freely accessible for students and researchers.  These materials are searchable for keywords that appear anywhere in the text.  The May Collection was complied in the 1870s by antislavery activists who consciously sought to preserve their work for the use of future generations.  As such, it is an indispensable collection for historians of abolitionism.

This site lists the contents of the print antislavery materials located at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.  Most materials are available for research in the Reading Room.  If you are interested in visiting an archive it is advisable to contact the staff to plan a research visit.