Holdings for individual authors and titles in Special Collections are traceable in the library's on-line catalogue. In addition extensive African American archival resources are available in both the South Caroliniana Library and South Carolina Political Collections.
Full-text searchable digital facsimiles:
* Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773)
with an introductory essay on Wheatley by Vincent Carretta
* Henri-Baptiste Grégoire, An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes (New York, 1810)
Web-exhibits:
* Exploring Africa: an exhibit of Maps and Travel Narratives, 1500-1900
* Olaudah Equiano and Some Eighteenth-Century African Writers: and exhibit for the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
* James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938
African-American Children's Literature Collection:
* The Augusta Baker Collection of African American Children's Literature and Folklore
This library is a congressionaly designated depository for U.S. government documents. Public access to the government documents collections is guaranteed by public law.