AP African American Studies Resource Archive | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Learn more about the debates related to colonization in the context of other antebellum reform movements.

Explore the role of military service during the Civil War on emancipation and abolition.

Understand the relationship between the Haitian Revolution and American Revolution.

Read about Frederick Douglass from his childhood and youth as an enslaved person and his legacy as a leading abolitionist and equal rights advocate.

Read about musician Muddy Waters, the blues, and the historical exhibits at the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Read about Robert Johnson and the rise and evolution of blues music.

AP African American Studies Resource Library