Slavery -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Black Federal Writers Project collection
Collection
Identifier: 547
Content Description
The collection consists of photocopies of documents from the records of the Federal Writers' Project at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, this collection contains interviews, writings, and poetry by former enslaved individuals detailing their lives in the slave-holding South, primarily Louisiana.
Dates:
Other: 1940-1941
Antoinette Harrell papers
Collection
Identifier: 608
Content Description
The Antoinette Harrell papers primarily document Harrell's career as a historian and activist, with collected files from her civil and social activities within New Orleans and Louisiana. The collection is extremely rich on the subjects of African American history in Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta; slavery reparations; and peonage in the South from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Harrell papers contain correspondence, news clippings, photographs, yearbooks, leaflets, genealogical material...
Dates:
Other: circa 1864-2017, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Antoinette Harrell papers