Primary Sources - HIS 401: History Seminar (Caribbean History 1500s - 1900s) - Research Guides at Cleveland State University

Michael Schwartz Library

Primary Sources: Caribbean History

Digital Library of the Caribbean
A cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean
Danish West-Indies - Sources of History
Rigsarkivet (some content in Danish)
Early Caribbean Digital Archive
Northeastern University

British Library Collections
General collection of British primary sources
World Digital Library
Materials about the Caribbean
Primary Sources Collections: Caribbean
Research Guide from Berkeley
Latin American Travelogues
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The JCB Library
Collection of 50,000 rare books, maps and manuscripts that encompasses more than two hundred languages and spans over three centuries of early American history.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
A collection of primary source documents centered on the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning from 1490 to 2007. Note: this is heavy on US history but if you search using Caribbean island names or topic-related searches, you'll find materials for your capstone.

HathiTrust
"A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items"

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
Primary source documents centered on the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning from 1490 to 2007. Includes original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps, and images.

Liberated Africans
After 1807, over 250,000 people were involved in an international effort to abolish the Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades. This resource is dedicated to their memories.
Legacies of British Slave-ownership
Supported by the Hutchins Center at Harvard.
Slave Societies Digital Archive
Vanderbilt University (mostly in Spanish)
Slavery Images
A visual record of the African slave trade and slave life in the early African Diaspora
Haitian Declaration of Independence
Duke University Libraries

Haiti and the Atlantic World
Sources and resources for discussions about Haiti and Haitian history
Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) Digital Collections
Digital collections with digital manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps and other resources held in the University of Miami Libraries
A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
University of Maryland
Digital Photographic Archive of Historic Havana
Five College Compass

General History

MIT Visualizing Cultures
World History Matters
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use
World Digital Library
Large, well-organized collection of print and visual primary sources from ancient to current times.
Contentdm Collection of Collections
Try a keyword search for "United States Civil War." Collections that contain materials from this time period will come up as results.