Anti-Slavery Collection: Other Holding Institutions / Related Projects
Anti-Slavery Archives/Repositories at other Institutions
- Anti-Slavery Collection (Oberlin College)2,500 items including annual reports, books, pamphlets, slave narratives, children's literature, poetry, music, newspapers and periodicals
- Papers of Frederick Douglass (Library of Congress)Digital collection of 7,400 items related to noted abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass. Includes diaries, correspondence, speeches, financial documents, and family papers.
- Raymond English Anti-Slavery Collection (University of Manchester)Letters, diaries, and printed works of English abolitionist George Thompson, who is a major correspondent represented in the BPL collection.
- Researching Slavery & the Slave Trade (Brown University)LibGuide with links to notable collections nationwide and describes Brown's special collections holdings related to anti-slavery.
- Samuel J. May Collection (Cornell University)Abolitionist Samuel Joseph May donated 10,000 pamphlets and leaflets documenting the anti-slavery struggle.
- Weld-Grimke Papers (University of Michigan)3,200 items related to abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimké, Angelina Emily Grimké Weld, and Theodore Dwight Weld. The collection includes letters, newspaper clippings, diaries, notebooks and other writings, a manuscript biography of Theodore Weld, loose photographs, and ephemera.
Transcribing Anti-Slavery Letters with Zooniverse
The BPL has partnered with Zooniverse, a crowd-sourced transcription platform, to transcribe more than 12,000 digitized letters from the library's anti-slavery collection. As of April 2018, nearly 3,000 participants have transcribed materials, one line at a time (once three users agree on a line's wording, it is considered complete). Transcriptions will be uploaded to complement the digital files already online via Digital Commonwealth.
Learn more about the transcription project and how to participate.
Data Mining the BPL's Collection
Professor Caleb McDaniel (Rice University) uses metadata from the BPL's digitized anti-slavery letters on the Internet Archive to create a data visualization of the correspondence among the abolitionists in the collection. William Lloyd Garrison represents the central node, while the Weston sisters display as another cluster above him.