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"Traditionally, historians have sought out and poured over archival evidence wherever it could be found: libraries, courthouses, government buildings, musty attics. It can be–and often must be –a painstaking and time-consuming process. That painstaking process may not be necessary anymore...Thanks to Gale’s Slavery and Anti-Slavery Archive, the first of four massive transnational digital archives on slavery, the information we need to research, write, teach, understand, and explain slavery...is readily available, and in a comprehensive, usable format."
Orville Vernon Burton, Coastal Carolina University
 Slavery and Anti-Slavery is a digital archive in four series devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America. Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition is a scholarly collection of approximately 1.5 million pages of primary source documents focussing on the abolitionist movement and the conflicts within it, the anti- and pro-slavery arguments of the period, and the debates on the subject of colonisation. The collection assembles a wide variety of materials - more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections. Varied sources — from well-known journals to private papers, monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts and periodicals - explore the economic, gender, legal, religious, and government issues surrounding the slavery debate. Additionally, a number of research tools – research guides, subject outlines and scholarly essays on the subject –  highlights the value of the content and assists students with access to the primary materials; introductory essays on sources will describe archival collections history and explain their research value. A subject guide search will allow researchers to submit searches against the archive's subject vocabulary.
• The American Missionary Association Archives, 1839-1882 • The American Colonization Society Papers • Papers of British abolitionist Sir Thomas Fowell-Buxton • Papers of American abolitionist Lewis Tappan • Salmon P. Chase Papers • Anti-Slavery Collection from Oberlin College• Papers of the Christian Faith Society • Abolitionist periodicals • Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonisation, 1854-72 • Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863 Future Series:
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