Colonial Africa: Home

This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.

British Government documents from the National Archives UK give access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Included are letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies, first-hand accounts of events, and more.

This series consists of correspondence and telegrams received and sent by the United States' diplomatic post in Liberia. The topics covered by these records include all aspects of relations with Liberia, and interactions of American citizens with the Liberian government and people.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.

Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture provides an in-depth look into the motivations, activities, and results of the European conquest of Africa in the nineteenth century.

A digital resource for the study of the letter and its place in the rich writing cultures of the eighteenth century. Database includes 79,254 letters and documents and 10,232 correspondents as of Spring 2022.