Manuscripts A guide to twenty-four Virginia manuscript repositories. Arranged by repository. Entries give a brief overview of each collection. Record types include plantation records, church and Bible records, diaries, photographs, medical records, business records, family papers, state and local records, etc. Check with Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina for a similar guide for North Carolina.
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African American - General African American Collections at UC Berkeley . Links to hundreds of sources are available here. This site has links to hundreds of sites in many subject areas although the main emphasis is historical. There is a lot of local history. Additional topics include areas as Library of Congress pamphlets, Civil War and Black troops, slavery, Underground Railroad, newspapers, Martin Luther King, Jr., book texts, bibliographies, etc.