E-Treasures from the Center for Research Libraries

The most recent collection added to the CRL's e-collection repositories is titled "Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu." From the official announcement:

"The collection of 206 manuscripts are from the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali. Abdel Kader Haidara, Curator of the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara and John O. Hunwick, Professor of History and Religion, Northwestern University, selected these manuscripts for conservation treatment and digitization in order to make them accessible via the Web. The manuscripts were returned to the Bibliotheque Commemorative Mama Haidara following their conservation and digitization.

The materials, in Arabic, include documentation on Africans in slavery and manumission in Muslim societies. "

This digital collection is fine addition to the others currently available, including:

• Chinese pamphlets: Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China
• Brazilian Government Documents
• Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848
• The Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)

Please note that these are digital scans of original documents in their original languages.