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The trade in people: The slave trade in Africa and the West Indies

The trade in people: The slave trade in Africa and the West Indies is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP).  This series includes the following collections:

American slave trade records and other papers of the Tarleton family, 1678-1838 Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907 Scottish trade with Africa and the West Indies in the early 18th century, 1694-1709 Slave trade...
Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Jan 1, 2018 12:05am

Colonial America

Colonial America is a five-module resource expected to incorporate all 1,450 files form the CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK.  CO 5 contains the original correspondence between the Board of Trade and Secretaries of State and the English, later British, colonies in North America and the Caribbean from 1606-1822.

This is a five-module resource, with Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries expected to be released in September 2015.

Module 1: Frontier Life, Early Expansion and Rivalries Module 2: Towards Revolution: Disputes and Origins of the Conflict Module 3: The...

Provider: Adam Matthew Digital
Updated: Nov 1, 2017 12:05am

Early English Books Online

Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides online access to 22.5 million pages from more than 125,000 books from 1473 to 1700. EEBO is being further enhanced through the JISC-funded Text Creation Project*, that is re-keying 20% of the titles in the collection to make them fully searchable for the first time. *The EEBO-TCP project is an international scholarly collaboration and partnership between Oxford University, the University of Michigan, JISC, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and ProQuest.

Provider: ProQuest
Updated: Oct 26, 2017 10:05am

60 Minutes: 1997-2014

The 60 Minutes: 1997-2014 collection from Alexander Street Press provides access to the CBS News archives from this period.  This online collection provides 350 hours of high-definition videos from 17 years of broadcasts, and includes 175 hours of bonus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning.

Provider: Alexander Street Press
Updated: Oct 26, 2017 9:50am

World War 1 and the Spanish Civil War: as reported by an Ambassador, 1863-1939

World War 1 and the Spanish Civil War: as reported by an Ambassador, 1863-1939 provides access to 37,288 pages in 8 volumes of Papers of Sir Esme Howard, 1863-1939.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 3:13pm

Military tactics discussed in letters to and from military leaders, 1881-1935

Military tactics discussed in letters to and from military leaders, 1881-1935 provides access to 6,190 pages in 9 volumes.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 3:08pm

Military intelligence files: Land, Sea & Air, 1938-1974

Military intelligence files: Land, Sea & Air, 1938-1974 provides access to 73,344 pages in 12 volumes of military movements and intelligence reports covering Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia, and more.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:49pm

Life under Nazi rule, reports by anti-fascists in occupied Europe, 1933-1945

Life under Nazi rule, reports by anti-fascists in occupied Europe, 1933-1945 provides access to 2 volumes of Anti-fascist publications of the International Transport Worker's Federation, 1933-1945.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:39pm

The British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files, 1933-1951

The British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files, 1933-1951 provides access to 13,847 pages of newspapers and files from the British Union of Fascistis. 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:26pm

Hitler's Army, Nazi Germany at war and the Nuremburg trials, 1925-1956

Hitler's Army, Nazi Germany at war and the Nuremburg trials, 1925-1956 provides access to 18 volumes of David Irving's private research collection.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:25pm

American slave trade records and other papers of the Tarleton family, 1678-1838

American slave trade records and other papers of the Tarleton family, 1678-1838 provides access to 655 pages of American material from the Tarleton papers. 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:24pm

Conscientious Objection during World War 1

Conscientious Objection during World War 1 provides access to 6,888 pages of papers written by Britain's peace campaigners during World War I.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:20pm

Asia at war, World War 2 as described by USPG missionaries, 1914-1946

Asia at war, World War 2 as described by USPG missionaries, 1914-1946 provides access to 7 volumes and 823 pages covering the Society for The Propagation of the Gospel missionaries in Asia during World War 2.  MAP reports, that "this collection is derived from the 'X Series' records of the USPG which are held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford."

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:16pm

British officers' diaries from World War 1, 1914-1919

British officers' diaries from World War 1, 1914-1919 provides access to 13,041 pages in 5 volumes of diaries from soldiers during The First World War.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 2:12pm

The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade, 1759-1832

The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade, 1759-1832 provides access to 9,122 pages of Jamacian material in the Slebech papers. 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 1:25pm

Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners, 1686-1860

Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners, 1686-1860 provides access to 6,139 pages of Papers relating to the Jamaican estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 12:48pm

Slavery: supporters and abolitionists, 1675-1865

Slavery: supporters and abolitionists, 1675-1865 provides access to 28,202 pages on the anti-slavery and pro-slavery movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 12:39pm

Slave trading records from William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797

Slave trading records from William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797 provides access to 1,890 from The papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797.

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 4, 2017 12:25pm

Scottish trade with Africa and the West Indies in the early 18th century, 1694-1709

Scottish trade with Africa and the West Indies in the early 18th century, 1694-1709 provides access to 10,219 pages of Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694-1709. 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 3, 2017 4:05pm

Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907

Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907 provides access to 25,432 pages of Tudway of Wells Antiguan Estate papers, 1689-1907. 

Provider: Microform Academic Publishers
Updated: Oct 3, 2017 3:25pm

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