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

Explore this primary source to learn about the process of buying and selling enslaved people in 1855.

Learn more about this pay warrant issued to soldier Sharp Liberty for his service in the Continental Army.

Scrutinize an image and a letter that address the experience of kidnapped Africans on a slave ship.

Read a firsthand account of the retaliation against African Americans in North Carolina after Nat Turner’s Rebellion.

Learn more about the proclamation offering freedom to enslaved people who joined the British army.

Explore an effort to enforce North Carolina’s slave codes in 1856.

AP African American Studies Resource Library