Research Guides: English 380 The Prison in Literature: 19th Century Primary Sources

19th c. Specific Databases

Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Discover primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Sourced from almost one hundred major world libraries.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Search newspaper content from the nineteenth century, featuring a range of urban and rural regions throughout the United States.
Part of Gale Primary Sources
Newspaper titles include:

New York Herald (NY)
Lynchburg Virginian (VA)
Pacific Commercial Advertiser (HI)
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
Southern Illustrated News (VA)
Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago)
Milwaukee Sentinel (WI)
The Bee (OH)
The Mountaineer (SC)

Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS)
Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is focused on bringing to light the names of enslaved individuals from court petitions, historical newspapers, and deed records held by Register of Deeds offices across North Carolina.
History Vault: Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War
Covers business records (ledgers, accounting books, receipts, and work rules) and personal papers (diaries, correspondences, and wills) from plantations in the American South.
Part of ProQuest History Vault.
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Research, study, and discover endless teaching possibilities on understanding slavery from a multinational perspective.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
From a largely colonial and thus Western and Eurocentric perspective, the material included focuses on the varieties of slavery, the legacies of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery in the twentieth century.
Note: This collection is owned in perpetuity by Davidson College.