Resources in African-American History
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1Author:  Thistlewood family.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Thistlewood family papers, 1748-1792     
 Dates:  1748-1792 
 Abstract:  Of particular interest to scholars of African American history are the materials relating to Thistlewood's time in Jamaica (1751-1786), where he managed a cattle estate (Vineyard Pen) and a sugar plantation (Egypt). 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1461 
 Extent:  16 microfilm_reel(s) 
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 Subjects:  Agriculture -- Jamaica. | Cattle. | Culture, community, organizations | Diaries. | Folklore | Folklore -- Jamaica | Jamaica -- Climate. | Jamaica -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Meteorology -- Jamaica -- Observations. | Microfilm Collection | Natural history -- Jamaica. | Plantations | Plantations -- Jamaica. | Slaveholders -- Jamaica. | Slavery -- Jamaica. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Sugar growing -- Jamaica. | Thistlewood family. | Thistlewood, John | Thistlewood, Thomas, 1721-1786 | Traditional medicine -- Jamaica. | West Indies -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. 
2Author:  Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941Requires cookie*
 Title:  Elsie Clews Parsons Papers     
 Dates:  1880-1980 
 Abstract:  Of particular interest to scholars of African American history is Parson's research in folklore. Parson produced three major monographs on African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans: Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands (1923), Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, S.C. (1924), and Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (3 volumes, 1933-1943). Materials which may be of interest in the collection include: correspondence (e.g. with Melville Herskovits, Anson Phelps Stokes, and Franz Boas); several manuscripts -- "Arabic elements in Negro Folk Tales," "Folklore from Georgia," 1934, "Negro Folklore" (5 folders), "Old signs in Alabama" and "Spirituals in Alabama," "Provenience of certain Negro folk-tales" (6 folders) in Series III; and research notes on African American folklore (Series IV). 
 Call #:  Mss.Ms.Coll.29 
 Extent:  38.25 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  American Anthropological Association | American Folklore Society | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Balch, Ernesto | Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985 | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birth control. | Blacks -- Jamaica -- Folklore | Boardman, Ruth | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bourne, Randolph | Bovey, Charles | Brice, Kirkpatrick | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | Camody, Mary | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Culture, community, organizations | Day, Clarence | Eastman, Max, 1883-1969 | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Feminism. | Fitz, Reginald | Folklore | Folklore -- Jamaica | Galton, Francis, Sir, 1822-1911 | Gelatin silver prints | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | Greece -- Description and travel -- 20th century | Hackett, Francis | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hare, Peter | Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hopi Indians | Hughes, Larry | Illustrations. | Indians of Central America | Indians of Mexico | Indians of North America -- Arizona | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- New Mexico | Indians of South America -- Ecuador | Isleta Indians | Johnson, Alvin | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Kwakiutl Indians | La Farge, G. Grant | La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963 | Law, George | Lewis, Margaret | Looking Elk, Albert | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Nitrate negatives | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 | Pacificism | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1875-1941 | Parsons, John E. | Peace movements -- 20th century | Phillipine Islands -- Description and travel -- 20th century | Pueblo Indians | Quechua Indians | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sketches. | Southwest Indians | Spier, Leslie | Stephen, Alexander M. | Taft, William Howard, 1857-193 | Taos Indians | Tewa Indians | Thompson, Stith | Titiev, Morris | True, Clara | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department. | Watercolors | White, Leslie A. | World War, 1914-1918 | Young, George | Zuni Indians 
3Author:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society [ACLS Collection]     
 Dates:  1853, 1882-1959 
 Abstract:  There are at least two items in this collection which may be of interest to scholars of African American history: Hurston, Zora Neale. " The Florida Expedition (#46)." n.d. 3 pages. Brief report by a student of Franz Boas on fieldwork in Florida studying African American folklore, story-telling, religion, and common-held beliefs. Hurston notes that "the bulk of the population now spends its leisure in motion picture theatres or with the phonograph and its blues." King, Louis E. " Negro life in a rural community (#49)." Circa 1931. 166 pages. Anthropological dissertation study of African American life in a rural community during the years 1927-1931. The work is divided into several sections: Background, Family Life, Breadwinning and Shelter, Education, Activities of the Group, Leaving Home, and Comparing Life in Different Rural Communities.. 
 Call #:  Mss.497.3.B63c 
 Extent:  80 Linear Feet 
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 Subjects:  'Nak'waxda'xw | 'Namgis | Achumawi language | African Americans -- Florida | African Americans -- Folklore | African Americans -- West Virginia | Airplanes | American ginseng | Anishinaabe | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Ants -- Folklore | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Awa'etłala | Babies -- Care | Banister, John, Jr. | Baptists -- North Carolina -- History | Basket making | Bears | Bella Coola Indians | Bella Coola language | Benin -- History | Betrothal | Birds -- Folklore | Cats -- Folklore | Chatino language | Chehalis language | Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions | Cherokee Indians -- Education | Cherokee Indians -- Fishing | Cherokee Indians -- Folklore | Cherokee Indians -- Funeral customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Games | Cherokee Indians -- Government relations | Cherokee Indians -- History | Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure | Cherokee Indians -- Marriage customs and rites | Cherokee Indians -- Material culture | Cherokee Indians -- Medicine | Cherokee Indians -- Military service | Cherokee Indians -- Music | Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government | Cherokee Indians -- Religion | Cherokee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Cherokee Indians -- Social life and customs | Cherokee Indians -- Violence against -- Tennessee | Cherokee dance | Cherokee language | Child care | Children -- Death | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity -- Africa | Chukchi -- History | Clothing and dress -- Middle East | Comox Indians | Corn -- Folklore | Creation -- Mythology | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | DEnaxdax | Da'naxda'xw | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Dogs -- Folklore | Drawings. | Dzawada'enuxw | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology -- Africa | Ethnology -- Russia | Ethnology -- United States | Face painting | Fairs -- North Carolina | Field notes. | Fijians -- Social life and customs | Fire -- Folklore | Folk music -- Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore -- Africa | Folklore -- British Columbia | Folklore -- Florida | Folklore -- Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Ghost stories | Ghosts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Gop'inuxw | Gourds | Group portraits | Gusgimukw | Gwasala | Ha'xwamis | Haida Indians | Haida language | Haudenosaunee | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Hymns | Illustrations. | Imprisonment -- North Carolina | Indians of North America -- Alaska | Indians of North America -- British Columbia | Indians of North America -- Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kootenai language | Koskimo | Kwagu'ł | Kwakiutl language | Kwikwasutinuxw | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Ma'amtagila | Makah Indians | Mamalilikala | Mandan language | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Milky Way -- Folklore | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North Carolina | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | North Carolina | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Nuu-chah-nulth | Nuxalk Indians | Ojibwe people | Omens | Oowekeeno Indians | Owls -- Folklore | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pleiades -- Folklore | Pomo language | Powwows | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Rabbits -- Folklore | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Sarsi Indians | Sarsi language | Sermons | Shasta language | Sioux Nation | Sketches. | Slip files | Smallpox -- United States -- History | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Social psychology | Sound recordings | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Swearing | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit Indians | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 | Tsetsaut Indians | Tsimshian language | Tsuut'ina language | Tunica language | Turtles -- Folklore | Twi (African people) | Tłatłasikwala | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.) | Volga River Region (Russia) -- History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Witches -- Folklore | Word lists | World War I | World War, 1939-1945 | Wuikinuxv | Xuyalas | Yana language | Zapotec language | Ławit'sis