Alden, John, and Dennis C. Landis, eds. European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493–1776. 6 vols. New York: Readex, 1980–1988.
Not strictly on race or racism but a comprehensive bibliography of European texts on America, which contains many of the works used by racial thinkers or contain contemporary discussions of race and racism. Of particular use are the subject, geographical (of printers and booksellers), and alphabetical (including printers and booksellers) indexes.
Conrad, Robert Edgar. Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Wide-ranging selection of mostly unpublished primary sources on slavery and the slave trade to and within Brazil. Contains useful selections on the urban lives of slaves, relations between races, and legal aspects of slavery.
Empire Online.
Subscription website containing a wide range of digitized print and manuscript sources on empire. Of particular interest is Section 5 (“Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonization, 1607–2007”), which contains essays, pamphlets, government papers, maps, and extracts from books. Most of these are from the 19th and 20th centuries, but there is much material on early modern Ireland.
Loomba, Ania, and Jonathan Burton, eds. Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2007.
Very broad selection of primary sources on race, ranging from Aesop’s Fables (6th century BCE) to Edward Tyson (1699), although the primary focus is on the period 1519–1699. Contains an excellent introduction and useful translations of extracts from works in ancient and modern European languages.
Quinn, David B., ed. New American World: A Documentary History of North America to 1612. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
Encyclopedic collection of documents ranging from ancient geography to the settlement of Virginia. Several chapters contain useful documents on Native Americans and relations with Europeans, although there is less information on Africans.
Recovered Histories.
Website containing digital copies of almost eight hundred pamphlets held at the library of Anti-Slavery International, dating from the early 18th to the early 20th centuries (the bulk was produced 1820–1850). Contains much information on American and British slavery debates, including proslavery and early racialist texts, and government inquiries.
Slaves and the Courts, 1740–1860.
Digitized collection of just over one hundred pamphlets on slavery and the law (both within and outside the courtroom). Contains much material on celebrated cases, such as Dred Scott v. Sandford and the trial of John Brown, and a manuscript copy of the District of Columbia Slave Code (1860).
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
Based on a CD-ROM project first published by Cambridge University Press in 1999, this open-access database has details on almost 35,000 (of an estimated 43,600) transatlantic slaving voyages from 1514 to the mid-19th century. Users can search by a wide range of variables and generate tables of statistics from the dataset.