Dayton Metro Library Adds To Digital Collection With New African American Research Databases

Press release from the Dayton Metro Library:

Christy Lynne Trotter, Content Writer

30 September 2021

Dayton Metro Library is excited to announce that beginning Monday, October 4, 2021, Library patrons and community members will have access to two new African American research databases that will become part of our digital collection:

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive traces the global history of slavery between the 17th and 19th centuries. Database users can explore the history of slavery and anti-slavery in four parts: Debates over Slavery and Abolition, Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, the Institution of Slavery, and the Age of Emancipation – collections all supported by over five million pages of material from different countries that document the history of slave trade.

Archives Unbound specifically offers 32 different collection titles covering a variety of sub-topics relating to African American history.

The new databases, powered by Gale Primary Sources, are a welcome addition to the other African American research databases the Library offers: Black Freedom Struggle, African American Heritage, and African American History Online.

The above mentioned databases are all free to use by visiting DaytonMetroLibrary.org/Research starting Monday, October 4,2021..

This press release was produced by the Dayton Metro Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.