The following is a list of repositories with significant digital collections in Early American and Atlantic History that I have complied for teaching. In some cases, I have noted larger collections by name. If you know of a source I have missed or notice that a link is no longer working, feel free to send me a Tweet (@ProvAtlantic).
Black Atlantic/African-American/Slavery
Africana and Black History (New York Public Library)
Anti-Slavery Images (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Black Abolitionist Archives (University of Detroit, Mercy)
Charles F. Heartman Manuscripts of Slavery (Xavier University, New Orleans)
Digital Schomburg (New York Public Library)
Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies(Vanderbilt)
Freedom on the Move (Cornell)
Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records (University of California, San Diego)
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership (University College London)
Manuscripts Related to Slavery (New-York Historical Society)
New York African Free School (New-York Historical Society)
North Carolina Runaway Slave Ads (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Runaway Slaves in Great Britain (University of Glasgow)
Slave Rebellion Database (Pan African Studies – California State University, Northridge)
Texas Runaway Slave Project (East Texas Research Center)
Transatlantic Slave Trade Voyages Database
Colonial/Early America
Adams Family Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Alexander Hamilton Papers (University of Virginia)
American Manuscripts (New-York Historical Society)
Benjamin Franklin Papers (Yale and American Philosophical Society)
Bibliothèque Numérique des Caraïbes (University of Florida)
British Library, Digitized Manuscripts
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
Colonial North America Project (Harvard)
Correspondence of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (Dartmouth)
Correspondence of Mercy Otis Warren and Hannah Winthrop (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Cushing-Whitney Medical Library (Yale/Internet Archives)
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Digital Public Library of America
Digitized Historical Periodicals (Canada)
Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Gallica (France)
George Washington Papers (University of Virginia)
Guide to French Louisiana Manuscripts (Historic New Orleans Collection) *Index useful for location repositories with French Louisiana Manuscript Collections
Hathi Trust (US)
Immigration to the US (Since 1789) (Harvard)
Index to East Florida Papers (University of Florida) *Currently index only. Microfilm available via ILL)
Internet Archive (US)
James Madison Papers (University of Virginia)
John Jay Papers (Columbia University)
Joseph Story Digital Suite (Harvard)
Latin American Travelogues (Brown)
Library of Congress/Memory Project (Library of Congress)
Lowcountry Digital Library (College of Charleston)
Maps, Seven Years War (Massachusetts Historical Society)
Medicine in Americas (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
New England Indian Papers (Yale)
New Netherlands Research Center
Nova Francia (Canada)
Reading (Harvard)
Seymour B. Durst Old York Library (Columbia)
The History Education Network (Canada)
Thomas Jefferson Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society)
University of Pennsylvania Digital Image Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Yale Indian Papers Project (Yale)
Religious History:
Bridwell Library (Southern Methodist University)
Hidden Histories/Colonial Era Church Records (Congregational Library, Boston)
Jonathan Edwards Papers (Yale)
Manuscripts Relating to Sansom Occom and Eleazor Wheelock’s Indian Students (Dartmouth)
Revolution:
American Revolution Era Maps (Norman Leventhal Map Center)
Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr. (Massachusetts Historical Society)
