CLAW: Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World: Find Pan-Africanism Books

Browse the Library of Congress Classification Outline to search for ranges of books by subject classification. It provides a guide to the books that are actually in the library's collections. You can search Addlestone's 2nd floor Book Stacks for the topics that interest you! The ranges listed here are the beginnings of books' call numbers. Below you will find subclass ranges for subjects relevant to this topic.

Class C - Auxiliary Sciences of History

Subclass CB - History of Civilization

• CB195-281 Civilization and race

Class D - World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc.

Subclass DT - History of Africa

•  DT470-671 West Africa. West Coast
  • DT491-516.9 British West Africa
  • DT521-555.9 French West Africa. French Sahara. West Sahara. Sahel
  • DT561-581 Cameroon (Cameroun, Kamerun) 
  • DT582-582.9 Togo. Togoland 
  • DT591-615.9 Portuguese-speaking West Africa 
  • DT619-620.9 Spanish West Africa 
  • DT621-637 Liberia
• DT1251-1465 Angola 
• DT1501-1685 Namibia. South-West Africa

Class E-F - History of the Americas

​Subclass E151-909 - United States

• E184.5-185.98 Afro-Americans 
  • E185.2-185.89 Status and development since emancipation
  • E185.96-185.98 Biography. Genealogy 
• E438 Slavery question, 1857-1861 
• E441-453 Slavery in the United States. Antislavery movements
• E456-655 Civil War period, 1861-1865 

Subclass F1201-3799 - Latin America. Spanish America

• F1601-1629 West Indies 
  • F1630-1640 Bermudas 
  • F1650-1660 Bahamas
  • F1741-1991 Greater Antilles 
  • F2001-2151 Lesser Antilles 
• F2155-2191 Caribbean area. Caribbean Sea 
• F2201-3799 South America

Class G - Geography. Anthropology. Recreation 

Subclass GN - Anthropology

• GN269-279 Race (General)
• GN537-674 Ethnic groups and races 

Class H - Social Sciences

Subclass HT - Communities. Classes. Races

• HT51-65 Human settlements. Communities
• HT1501-1595 Races - Including race as a social group and race relations in general

"Summer reading closing exercises, Dart Hall Branch Library (1953)" from the Images from the Records of the Charleston County Public Library Collection in the Lowcountry Digital Library.