The Penn Libraries has purchased online access to Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, the first installment of a major digitized collection of primary source materials on the global history of slavery.
SAS, Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition reproduces documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Constitution, the changing world of African Americans in the American South. SAS, Part I provides digital page images with fulltext searching for more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, with more than 1.5 million pages covered.
SAS, Part I aims to reproduce entire document collections, rather than draw illustrative or sample documents from their context. Included among the major document collections reproduced in SAS, Part I are:
- American Colonization Society records (Library of Congress)
- American Missionary Association archives, 1839-1882 (Tulane University)
- Lewis Tappan papers and Salmon P Chase papers (Library of Congress)
- Rhodes House Library, Anti-Slavery collection, 1795-1880, including papers of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
- Christian Faith Society papers, 17th-20th centuries (Lambeth Palace Library)
- U.S. Court decisions, filings, proceedings and other records
SAS, Part I is the first of four SAS collections, to be followed by "Slave trade in the Atlantic world", "Institution of Slavery", and "Age of Emancipation". The Penn Libraries will review the content for each of these forthcoming collections for relevance to Penn's curriculum and research needs.
For more information:
Nick Okrent, US History bibliographer
Ancil George, Africana Studies bibliographer
Lauris Olson, Social Sciences bibliographer
