The following Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) can help identify materials about slavery and abolition in InfoHawk as well as many other library catalogs and databases.
Antislavery movements -- United States
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- History
Slavery -- Justification
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements
Slavery -- United States -- Condition of slaves
Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature
Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories
Slavery -- United States -- History
Slavery -- United States -- Insurrections, etc.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions
Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions
Slave-trade -- United States
This list is by no means comprehensive. These are simply some of the more general subject headings. You may want to explore more specific subject headings to identify material relevant to your topic.
These subject headings will also give you an idea of how LCHS are structured. Subject headings/terms can also identify…
Examples of common subject terms you can use in combination with other search terms to locate sources in the InfoHawk catalog:
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Individuals: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Robert Carter
Geographic Areas: Southern States, South Carolina, Spartanburg County, Charleston
Populations: Women, Family, Children
Time Periods: Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775,18th Century, 19th Century
African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic
African American History
African American Lives
African American National Biography
African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia
Black Women in America
Encyclopedia of African American Society
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History : the Black Experience in the Americas
Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage
Encyclopedia of African-American Politics
Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion
Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature
The Longman Companion to Slavery, Emancipation and Civil Rights
Pan-African Chronology II: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia, 1865-1915
Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400-1865
Slavery in North America : From the Colonial Period to Emancipation
The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations
