EN 329: American Literature I

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

Enslaved.org provides richly detailed stories of the lives of those enslaved. Since 2018, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org) has been serving the needs of scholars, genealogists, students, and members of the public interested in the people of the historical slave trade. Enslaved.org is a discovery hub that helps users to search and find information from a large and growing number of datasets and digital projects.

Archival Justice for the Enslaved Project was born to critically modify existing archival representations of enslaved figures in the Princeton University Rare Books and Special Collections manuscripts.

Houghton Library, Harvard University’s largest rare books and manuscripts repository, is home to hundreds of thousands of materials relating to history across the world. Houghton’s collections related to Black history range from the 18th century through today, but have historically been difficult to discover amongst all the other material. This collection brings together a curated collection of materials ranging from the Early Republic through Reconstruction. This project is a first foray into actively sharing our rich collections related to Black experiences from the 18th through early 20th century.

From the University of Virginia, provides digital images and transcriptions of documents relating to the trials including court testimony, maps, books, letters, and journals among other sources.

Cornell’s Witchcraft Collection contains over 3,000 titles documenting the history of the Inquisition and the persecution of witchcraft, primarily in Europe.

Holds a collection of materials related to the trials, particularly early writings on the subject. Website also features information about the trials.

Holds the records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

Collections include a volume of legal documents related to the trials as well as personal papers of Samuel Sewall, Cotton Mather, and others who were involved.

Volume 135 of the Massachusetts Archives Collection contains official copies of records relating to the trials and petitions to the General Court to recover expenses for those who were imprisoned and executed.

Holds various records relating to the trials and the imprisonment of accused persons.