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SPA 390

Resources for researching slavery in the Caribbean area.

Where to Begin

Open yellowed bookStart with an LVC Books search. 

Not finding anything there? 

Search WorldCat for books found in libraries worldwide (you'll need to use interlibrary loan).  

Image Source:   Paulus Hulsius, Korte oopeninge van Pauli beide brieven, geschreeven aan Timotheus. Begreepen in eenige academische kerk-reeden, Rotterdam, N. Topyn, 1727.  Public domain.  Wikimedia Commons.

Subjects

Useful subject terms for searching for books in the LVC catalog and WorldCat:

Slavery--Bahamas

Slavery--Barbados

Slavery--Caribbean Area

Slavery--Cuba

Slavery--Jamaica

Slavery--Latin America

Slavery--West Indies

Search also slaves and geographic region.

Find Books

Links below search book collections. 

LVC Books searches books--ebooks and print--that LVC owns. WorldCat is database that searches 77,000 worldwide library catalogs.  Books found in WorldCat, may require you to use ILL/Interlibrary Loan/Tipasa to get copy.  

Locate F

You've found a book in the LVC Books search.  Now what? 

A - PR      Located on the upper level 
PS - Z Located on the lower level
OVERSIZE    Located on the north and east sides of the upper level