An overview of the Schomburg Center is followed by links to specific aspects of the Center's collections, e.g. manuscripts and archives, images, and catalogs. This is followed by links to sites dealing with the African Diaspora. Check Carrier Library's Leonardo Catalog for access to a major Schomburg collection on microfiche. This Civil War site lists ca. 230,000 individual Black American soldiers that fought in the American Civil War.
Links provide additional sites.
The Universal BlackPages - History A site with links to hundreds of sources. Arranged in topical areas, e.g. history,diaspora, life, education, etc. This site has an anthology of slave narratives taken from the mid-1930's as part of the WPA's program of supporting researchers. This site has links to bibliographies on the subject and to additional Internet sources of slave narratives. Excerpts from Slave Narratives Brief excerpts of slave narratives are available at this web page.