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Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade | BBC
From the middle of the 15th century, Africa entered into a unique relationship with Europe that led to the devastation and depopulation of Africa, but contributed to the wealth and development of Europe.
Africans in America | PBS
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.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
The 1,280 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery.
The Future of the American Past | AHA
The American Historical Association (AHA) and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) co-hosted The Future of the African American Past, a landmark conference that brought together over 60 scholars to celebrate the opening of the NMAAHC and consider the future of the study of African American history.
The National Archives (UK) | Abolition of Slavery
Background and information about Britain and the transatlantic slave trade, and relevant records held by The National Archives.
The Slave Route | UNESCO
Ignorance or concealment of major historical events constitutes an obstacle to mutual understanding, reconciliation and cooperation among peoples. UNESCO has thus decided to break the silence surrounding the slave trade and slavery that have concerned all continents and caused the great upheavals that have shaped our modern societies.
Slavery and the Making of America | PBS
The first were brought in 1619. The last freed in 1865. In the intervening 250 years, slaves labored to make America what it is today.
The Slave Trade
A commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the West Indies
The Transatlantic Slave Trade | Schomburg
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

The Slave Trade
A commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the West Indies
The Abolition of the Slave Trade
Offers insights into the slave trade to the United States, African resistance, abolitionism, the U.S. Constitution and the Slave Trade Acts, 19th century African-American celebrations of the 1807 Act, the illegal slave trade, the campaign to revive the trade, and the end of the Africans’ deportation.
The Abolition Project
This site looks at the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Thomas Clarkson and his fellow abolitionists who fought for emancipation of enslaved Africans in the British colonies.
Portraits, People & Abolition
Site that commemorates the 200th anniversary of the passing of the Act of Parliament that legally ended British involvement in the transatlantic trade in African people to serve as slave labour in the Americas, the West Indies and Europe.
Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery--Nantes
During the 18th century, Nantes became France’s largest slave port. Shipowners, bankers, industrialists, traders, shopkeepers, shipbuilders and sailors all benefited to varying degrees from the trade.
The National Archives (UK) | Abolition of Slavery
Background and information about Britain and the transatlantic slave trade, and relevant records held by The National Archives.
Antislavery Pamphlet Collection, 1725-1911
The Antislavery Collection contains several hundred printed pamphlets and books pertaining to slavery and antislavery in New England, 1725-1911. The holdings include speeches, sermons, proceedings and other publications of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society and the American Colonization Society, and a small number of pro-slavery tracts.

African Origins
African Origins contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic.
The History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade | International Slavery Museum
For more than 2,000 years people in many different parts of the world have forced their fellow humans into slavery. Between about 1500 and 1900, Europeans forcibly uprooted millions of people from throughout West Africa and West Central Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic in conditions of great cruelty.
The Origins of Slavery | Gilder Lehrman
African American life in the United States has been framed by migrations, forced and free. A forced migration from Africa—the transatlantic slave trade—carried black people to the Americas. A second forced migration—the internal slave trade—transported them from the Atlantic coast to the interior of the American South. A third migration—this time initiated largely, but not always, by black Americans—carried black people from the rural South to the urban North.
Smithsonian: On The Water Exhibition
Maritime commerce connected the peoples and nations that rimmed the Atlantic in a web of trade, conquest, settlement, and slavery. Europeans carved out vast new colonies in the Americas. From gold to sugar, the resources of the New World transformed European societies. The transatlantic slave trade carried millions of Africans westward to lives of labor and suffering. Ships and sailors helped create a complex new world with maritime commerce at its core.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade | Schomburg
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery | New-York Historical Society
The library of the New-York Historical Society holds among its many resources a substantial collection of manuscript materials documenting American slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The fourteen collections on this web site are among the most important of these manuscript collections. They consist of diaries, account books, letter books, ships’ logs, indentures, bills of sale, personal papers, and records of institutions.
Geography of Slavery in Virginia
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers.
Documenting the American South | UNC Chapel Hill
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.
The Avalon Project | Yale
Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
Digital Library on American Slavery | UNC Greensboro
Although the current focus of DLAS is sources associated with North Carolina, there is considerable data contained herein relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C., including detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a full-text collection created and managed by the FIU Libraries. Content is multidisciplinary, multilingual and features books, journals, newspapers, photographs, and archival materials in its collection.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade | Shomburg Texts
n Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

Sugar in the Atlantic World
It is impossible to think about sugar production in the West Indies without thinking about slavery. The labor of enslaved Africans was integral to the cultivation of the cane and production of sugar.
Development of the Plantation System
A concise description of the development of the plantation system from the perspective of the UK port city, Bristol.

African Origins
African Origins contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic.
The Abolition of the Slave Trade | Maps
Offers insights into the slave trade to the United States, African resistance, abolitionism, the U.S. Constitution and the Slave Trade Acts, 19th century African-American celebrations of the 1807 Act, the illegal slave trade, the campaign to revive the trade, and the end of the Africans’ deportation.
Historical Census Browser | University of Virginia Library
Browse census data documenting the United States slave population from 1790-1860.
Port Cities: Bristol | Slavery Routes
This section contains information about the journeys taken by the slave ships between Bristol, Africa and America. It also looks at the places involved.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade | Shomburg Maps
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

Slave Rebellions: A timeline | PBS
Slave owners lived in fear of slave revolts, a fear which was far from unfounded: from the Amistad mutiny to the Underground Railroad, American slaves—led by themselves or with the help of abolitionists—staged many instances of revolt and resistance.
Recovered Histories
Anti-Slavery International has digitised its collection of 18th and 19th century literature on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Recovered Histories captures the narratives of the enslaved, enslavers, slave ship surgeons, abolitionists, parliamentarians, clergy, planters and rebels.
African American Women
Includes letters written by slaves.
American Slave Narratives
From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
Excerpts From Slave Narratives
Edited by Steven Mintz, University of Houston

The Age of Slavery (1800-1860)

THIS FILM ILLUSTRATES HOW BLACK LIVES CHANGED DRAMATICALLY IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. FOR FREE BLACK PEOPLE, THESE YEARS WERE A TIME OF OPPORTUNITY, BUT FOR MOST AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE ERA REPRESENTED A NEW NADIR. KING COTTON FUELED THE RAPID EXPANSION OF SLAVERY INTO NEW TERRITORIES AND THE FORCIBLE RELOCATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS TO THE DEEP SOUTH. YET AS SLAVERY INTENSIFIED, SO DID RESISTANCE. FROM INDIVIDUAL ACTS TO MASS REBELLIONS, AFRICAN AMERICANS DEMONSTRATED THEIR DETERMINATION TO UNDERMINE AND ULTIMATELY ERADICATE SLAVERY. (56 MINUTES) DISTRIBUTED BY PBS DISTRIBUTION.

eReference

"New Negroes from Africa" by Rosanne Marion Adderley
ISBN: 9780253218278
The Cambridge world history of slavery by David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, general editors.
ISBN: 052184066X
Shackles of Iron by Gordon T. Stewart
ISBN: 1624664741
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 by Thomas D. Morris
ISBN: 9780807864302

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