The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) is pleased to share our first-ever collaborative online exhibit, “
Enslaved People in the Southeast.” The exhibit commemorates the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans sold into bondage in the English Colonies. The exhibit includes materials from 33 ASERL member libraries and three libraries that are members of the HBCU Library Alliance, including auction records and other bills of sale, plantation records, materials from the abolitionist movement, and photographs and other items from the Jim Crow South.
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Photograph of Sarah Gudger taken between 1936 and 1938
on the occasion of her interview for the WPA Slave Narrative Project. |
Materials contributed by Tulane University Libraries include an
1814 William C.C. Claiborne document, an
1863 order by General G. F. Shepley requiring free access to all formerly enslaved persons on Louisiana plantations, an
1842 deed recording the sale of two enslaved persons by Citizens Bank, and an
1839 sale of fifteen enslaved persons by Josiah Gray to Ann Maria, his emancipated housekeeper.
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