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In old Virginia : slavery, farming, and society in the journal of John Walker / Claudia L. Bushman

Author:
Bushman, Claudia L  Search this
Walker, John 1785-1867  Search this
Subject:
Walker, John 1785-1867  Search this
Walker, John 1785-1867  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 292 p. ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Diaries
Place:
Virginia
Tidewater (Region)
Tidewater (Va. : Region)
Date:
2002
19th century
Topic:
Farmers  Search this
Country life--History  Search this
Agriculture--History  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_688364
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Jubilee / Margaret Walker

Author:
Walker, Margaret 1915-1998  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 497 p. ; 21 cm
Type:
Fiction
Place:
United States
Date:
1999
Civil War, 1861-1865
Topic:
African Americans--History  Search this
African American women  Search this
Slavery  Search this
Women slaves  Search this
Racially mixed people  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
PZ4.W1814 Ju 1999
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_689817
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Blue beads as African-American cultural symbols / Linda France Stine, Melanie A. Cabak and Mark D. Groover

Author:
Stine, Linda F (Linda France) 1956-  Search this
Cabak, Melanie A  Search this
Groover, Mark D  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Books
Place:
Southern States
Southern states
United States
Date:
1996
Topic:
Evil eye  Search this
African Americans--Material culture  Search this
Beads--Symbolic aspects  Search this
Slaves--Economic conditions  Search this
African American blue beads  Search this
Trade beads  Search this
African American charms  Search this
African American symbolic color  Search this
Blue symbolic color  Search this
Call number:
CC1 .H673
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_662625
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Forts et châteaux de la Côte de l'Or / Antoine Périgot

Author:
Périgot, Antoine  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Books
Place:
Ghana
Date:
1998
Topic:
Slave trade  Search this
Forts  Search this
Call number:
DT470 .B172
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_664313
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O tràfico da escravatura nas costas de Moçambique em 1902 / José Capela

Author:
Capela, José  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Books
Place:
Mozambique
Date:
1988
Topic:
Slave trade  Search this
Call number:
DT459 .A8X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_667705
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Silenzi della memoria : la tratta degli schiavi

Author:
Cafuri, Roberta  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Africa, West
Benin
Ouidah
Date:
2000
Topic:
Slave trade  Search this
Museums  Search this
Call number:
DT1 .A252
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_630320
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Historical events turned into evening attire

Creator:
National Museum of American History  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Blog posts
Published Date:
Thu, 05 May 2016 19:09:57 +0000
Topic:
American History  Search this
See more posts:
Blog Feed
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_469ecce0efa2e915fb874ceb76572267
view “An American Slave:� The Narrative of Frederick Douglass on the 200th Anniversary of his Birth digital asset number 1

“An American Slave:� The Narrative of Frederick Douglass on the 200th Anniversary of his Birth

Creator:
Smithsonian Libraries  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Blog posts
Published Date:
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:00:35 +0000
Topic:
Library science  Search this
See more posts:
Smithsonian Libraries / Unbound
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_130ea386502784093118520723e4cc63
view From seams to strikes: Exploring women at work through clothing in our collection digital asset number 1

From seams to strikes: Exploring women at work through clothing in our collection

Creator:
National Museum of American History  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Blog posts
Published Date:
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:22:48 +0000
Topic:
American History  Search this
See more posts:
Blog Feed
Data Source:
National Museum of American History
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_17ef45ea200d0a0bfe792a370af60bdb
view Open Through Feb. 15, 2016: "Freedom Just Around the Corner: Black America from Civil War to Civil Rights" digital asset number 1

Open Through Feb. 15, 2016: "Freedom Just Around the Corner: Black America from Civil War to Civil Rights"

Creator:
National Postal Museum  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Blog posts
Published Date:
February 27, 2015
Topic:
Postal  Search this
See more posts:
National Postal Museum
Data Source:
National Postal Museum
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_2fece60850eba73a157acfa20f4f1773
view Raise the Spirits for Ancestor Amiri Baraka digital asset number 1

Raise the Spirits for Ancestor Amiri Baraka

Creator:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this
Type:
Blog posts
Smithsonian staff publications
Interviews
Blog posts
Published Date:
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:00:00 GMT
Topic:
Cultural property  Search this
See more posts:
Festival Blog
Data Source:
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:posts_068a45738fe41e15e9dffe10a27cc124
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James Otis Arguing Against the Writs of Assistance in the Old Town House, (painting)

Painter:
Reid, Robert 1862-1929  Search this
Trumbull, Edward 1869-1951  Search this
Subject:
Otis, James  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings-Mural
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Massachusetts State House Beacon Hill Nurses Hall Boston Massachusetts 02133
Date:
1901
Topic:
History--United States--Colonization  Search this
Portrait male--Full length  Search this
Occupation--Writer--Author  Search this
Occupation--Political--Statesman  Search this
Architecture interior--Civic--Massachusetts Old State House  Search this
Architecture interior--Civic--Capitol  Search this
Figure group--Male  Search this
Occupation--Law--Judge  Search this
Control number:
IAP 86130025
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_231845
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In and out of slavery

Author:
Mirzoeff, Nicholas 1962-  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Shonibare, Yinka 1962-  Search this
Type:
Articles
Date:
2001
Topic:
Blacks in art  Search this
Slaves in art  Search this
Call number:
AS4.U8 A14X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_692391
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(Dis)forming the American canon : African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular / Ronald A.T. Judy ; foreword by Wahneema Lubiano

Title:
Disforming the American canon
Author:
Judy, Ronald A. T  Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
1993
C1993
Topic:
American prose literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc  Search this
American prose literature--Arab American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc  Search this
Slaves' writings, American--History and criticism--Theory, etc  Search this
Slavery--Historiography  Search this
African Americans in literature  Search this
Arab Americans in literature  Search this
Narration (Rhetoric)  Search this
Canon (Literature)  Search this
Autobiography  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_710562
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Slave narratives [electronic resource]

Author:
Ancestry.com (Firm)  Search this
MyFamily.com, Inc  Search this
United States Works Progress Administration  Search this
Physical description:
1 computer optical disc : col. ; 4 3/4 in
Type:
Electronic resources
Biography
Personal narratives
Place:
United States
Date:
2000
C2000
Topic:
Slaves  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Slaves' writings, American  Search this
Slavery  Search this
Call number:
mrdf 000452
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_712423
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Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky borderland / J. Blaine Hudson

Author:
Hudson, J. Blaine  Search this
Physical description:
x, 205 p. : ill, maps ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ohio River Valley
Date:
2002
C2002
19th century
Topic:
Underground Railroad  Search this
Fugitive slaves--History  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_688575
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Un plan d'action contre les esclavagistes dressé par l'explorateur Hermann von Wissmann

Author:
Luwel, Marcel  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Wissmann, Hermann von 1853-1905 Travel  Search this
Tippu Tip 1837-1905  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Africa, Central
Tanzania
Date:
1970
To 1908
Topic:
Antislavery movements  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
History  Search this
Call number:
DT641 .A258
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_689991
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Islam's Black slaves : the other Black diaspora / Ronald Segal

Author:
Segal, Ronald 1932-2008  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 273 p. : maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Islamic countries
Date:
2001
Topic:
Slavery and Islam--History  Search this
Slavery--History  Search this
African diaspora  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_678352
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Historical dictionary of slavery and abolition / Martin A. Klein

Author:
Klein, Martin A  Search this
Physical description:
xxiii, 348 p. ; 23 cm
Type:
Dictionaries
Date:
2002
Topic:
Slavery--History  Search this
Antislavery movements--History  Search this
Abolitionists--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_678364
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Catalogue

Author:
Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI  Search this
Subject:
Vodun (Cult)  Search this
Type:
Articles
Place:
Benin
Date:
1997
Topic:
Art, Fon  Search this
Récades  Search this
Call number:
HT985 .M45 1997
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_678488

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