Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Freedmen's Bureau
This collection of documents, images, and readings from the era give an overview of the work done by the Freedmen's Bureau and the racial and political struggles the agency faced during the Reconstruction Era. Includes a teaching guide.
This Nation
This nation.com: "Emancipation Proclamation" Abraham Lincoln
This Nation site provides the full text of President Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" which freed slaves.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Free African Americans in the Colonial Era
Read about the ways some slaves gained their freedom and where they often lived once free.