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Transatlantic Slave
Trade
The Atlantic
Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual
Record Over one thousand images, most dating from the period of
slavery, to be used as a teaching and research tool by those interested
in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the
Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of
the New World.
Captive
Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the
Americas Online exhibit giving overview of the Transatlantic
Slave Trade system and its effects, from the Mariner's Museum in
Newport News, VA.
The
Amistad From the Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea,
this site contains primary and secondary source information related to
the Amistad incident and its aftermath.
Breaking
the Silence: Learning About the Transatlantic Slave Trade
This site helps teachers and educators Break the Silence that
continues to surround the story of the enslavement of African
peoples.
Merseyside
Maritime Museum's Transatlantic Slavery Exhibit Online Explores
the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the lens of one of the major
British trading ports.
UNESCO
Slave Route Project A project studying the causes and effects
of slavery on various cultures worldwide in order to further the causes
of historical truth, peace, development, Human Rights, memory
and intercultural dialogue.
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Slavery and
Abolition in America
The Yale University
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and
Abolition "is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination
of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its
destruction" and contains numerous primary source documents.
America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For
each era, you'll find a historical narrative, a resource bank of
images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a
teacher's guide.
Slavery and
Freedom in American History & Memory Developed by Area
Cooperative Education Resources and Yale University Gilderman Lehrman
Center to provide resources for middle and high school teachers. Has
strong list of resources for slavery-related materials.
Harper's
Weekly An online resource guide of primary sources published in
Harper's Weekly between 1857 and 1874, dealing with slavery, the
American Civil War, Reconstruction, and African American culture and
society.
Slaves
and the Courts, 1740-1860 Presented by the Library of Congress
American Memory project, this site contains over a hundred pamphlets
and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult
and troubling experiences of African and African American slaves in the
American colonies and the United States.
The African American Migration Experience Presents a new
interpretation of African American history, one that focuses on the
self-motivated movement of peoples of African descent, during and after
the era of slavery, to remake themselves and their worlds. With many
articles and images. A project of the New York Public Library's
Schomburg Center For
Research in Black Culture.
"I
Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America
Featuring rare books, manuscripts, letters, photographs, and other
materials from Cornell University's anti-slavery and Civil War
collections, the exhibition explores the complex history of slavery,
resistance, and abolition from the 1700s through 1865.
American
Abolitionism Resources
for studying the abolition movement. Includes a number of primary
source documents.
Lest We
Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery A website that explores
all aspects of the slave trade and life under slavery. Created in
2004 by the Schomburg
Center For Research in Black Culture for the United Nations Year to
Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition.
National Underground
Railroad Freedom Center This website provides descriptions and
walkthrough movies of museum's exhibits.
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Slave
Narratives
Voices
From the Days of Slavery
Presented by the Library of Congress American Memory project, the
almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place
between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three
interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss slavery,
slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.
Born into
Slavery: Federal Writer's Project Slave Narratives Presented by the
Library of Congress American Memory project, this site contains more
than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white
photographs of former slaves (Also known as the WPA Slave
Narratives).
Documenting the American
South: North American Slave Narratives Books and articles that
document the individual and collective story of African Americans
struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth,
and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all known,
existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves
published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920.
African American Women
Rare primary source documents, including slaves' letters and a memoir
of the daughter of slaves, from the Special Collections Library at Duke
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African History
African
Voices
From the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, this site
allows you to discover Africa's striking diversity and long
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The Henrietta Marie and
Marine Archaeology
A Slave Ship
Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie
Official site from the discovery team that found the Henrietta Marie.
Includes comprehensive information about the ship, ongoing research,
and lesson plans.
Last Voyage of the Slave Ship Henrietta Marie National
Geographic magazine article.
National
Parks Service Submerged Resources Center This program
inventories and evaluates submerged resources in the National Park
System and assists other agencies, nationally and internationally, with
underwater heritage resource issues.
National Underwater and
Marine Agency A non-profit, volunteer foundation dedicated to
preserving our maritime heritage through the discovery, archaeological
survey and conservation of shipwreck artifacts.
Underwater
Archaeology From the French Ministry of Culture, a history of
undersea exploration, explanation of techniques and methods of
discovery, and information about France's undersea archaeological
sites.
Naval
Historical Center's Underwater Archaeological Branch Dedicated
to the preservation of U.S. Navy ships and aircraft wrecks.
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Modern Slavery
Free the Slaves
It is estimated that from 12 to 27 million people worldwide are
currently enslaved. Free the Slaves is a non-profit organization
working to end slavery worldwide.
Slavery
in the 21st Century A special report from the BBC on the global
problem of forced labor.
Anti-Slavery:
Today's Fight for Tomorrow's Freedom Anti-Slavery
International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international
human rights organization and the only charity in the United Kingdom to
work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. News and other
resources about this worldwide problem.
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