Web Resources

Library of Congress Web Resources

• African-American Mosaic: Colonization

  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html

• African American Perspectives

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

• History of Liberia: A Timeline

  https://www.loc.gov/collections/maps-of-liberia-1830-to-1870/articles-and-essays/history-of-liberia/

• Maps of Liberia

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/libhome.html

• Mirror Images: Daguerreotypes at the Library of Congress, Search term: American Colonization Society

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/dagamco.html

• The Records of the American Colonization Society, available digitally on Fold3.com after free registration

  http://www.fold3.com

Other Web Resources

• African American Family Database, Central Virginia History Researchers

  https://www.centralvirginiahistoryresearchers.org/welcome/african-american-families-database/

• Africans in America, PBS online and WGBH

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

• Emigrants to Liberia, 1820-1843: An Alphabetical Listing, Tom W. Schick, University of Wisconsin

  http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Liberia/pdfs/alphalist.html

• Free African Americans in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware

  https://freeafricanamericans.com

• In Motion: The African American Migration Experience, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  http://www.inmotionaame.org

• "In Search of a Lost Africa," Helene Cooper, New York Times.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/magazine/06Liberian-t.html

• Liberia Page, University of Pennsylvania, African Studies Center

  http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Country_Specific/Liberia.html

• The Liberian Collections Project, Indiana University

  https://archives.iu.edu/repositories/lcp

• Liberian Law Project

  https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/liberian

• The Liberian Letters, University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center

  http://jti.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/liberia/index.html

• Monticello Enslaved Community Database

  https://www.monticello.org/enslaveddb/

• Notes of Manumissions, Selected Virginia Counties, ca. 1782-1818

  Michael L. Nicholls and Lenaye Howard, Department of History, Utah State University

  http://www.usu.edu/history/faculty/nicholls/manumissions/index.htm

• The Records of the American Colonization Society, Library of Congress, available after free registration

  http://www.fold3.com

• Ricks Institute in Virginia, Liberia

  https://ricksinstitute.org

• Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative

  https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/virginia-untold