Slavery & Slave Trade in American History
Internet Resources:
Captive Passage
A digital resource on the Transatlantic slave trade and its importance for the making of America.
From the Mariner’s Museum (Newport News, Virginia) in cooperation with the South Side
Seaport Museum (New York City) and the National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside
(Liverpool, UK).
Francophone Slavery
A set of resources on slavery in the France and its colonies, focusing on the 18th and 19th
centuries. Includes materials by Black authors from Haiti and elsewhere in the francophone
world, as well as visual images. Hosted at the University of Georgia.
From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection
A selection of pamphlets by African American authors and others published between 1822 and
1909, and found in the collections of the Rare Book Division of the Library of Congress. Part of
the Library’s American Memory Project.
Liverpool Slavery Trail
An interactive map of Liverpool, showing sites linked to the trade in African slaves by Liverpool
merchants. Clicking on any of the dots provides further information on that site. Mounted by
the Merseyside Maritime Museum (Liverpool).
N-YHS Slavery Manuscripts
A collection of online manuscripts documenting the history of slavery and the slave trade in New
York, drawn from the superb collections of the New-York Historical Society
North American Slave Narratives
A collection of books and articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, including all the
existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides,
pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Produced by the University of North Carolina
Library as part of its Documenting the American South digital initiative.
Papers of Federick Douglass
From the original collection held by the manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. Part of
the Library’s American Memory Project.
Secret Routes to Freedom
Mounted by the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the
Caribbean (IRADAC) at the City University of New York, this site pulls together important
resources on the Underground Railroad experience. [NOTE: Proper display requires
Macromedia Flash]
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Slave Resistance: A Caribbean Study
The product of a Spring 2000 course (History 300: “Caribbean: Slavery and Resistance”) taught
by Ed Baptist at the University of Miami, this website utilizes Caribbean materials from the Otto
G. Richter Library at the University of Miami Libraries and is devoted, in part, to making these
materials more widely available.
Slavery in New York
Online version of a major exhibition on slavery in New York City, mounted by the New-York
Historical Society in 2005.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Compiled by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr., this database includes some 1,200
images of slavery and slave life in the Americas.
The Last Slave Ships
An online exhibition documenting the history and archeology of the Key West African cemetery,
mounted by the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum.
The Missing Chapter
An online exhibit mounted by the SE New York Library Resources Council and Historic
Huguenot Street (New Paltz, NY) to document untold stories of the African-American presence
in the Hudson River Valley. Includes primary documents and lesson plans designed to support
curricula from K through university level education.
Uncle Toms Cabin & American Culture
Produced by the University of Virginia in collaboration with the Harriet Beacher Stowe Center in
Hartford, this site brings together a variety of texts and images (including film clips) for the
purpose of documenting the cultural context of Stowe’s 1852 novel and the important role it has
played as a conversation piece on race in American culture.
USF Africana Heritage Project
A project of the University of South Florida devoted to the rediscovery and sharing of records
that document the lives of the enslaved.
Voyages: The TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database
Successor to the CD-ROM database produced by Cambridge University Press in 1999, this freely
available web resource documents close to 35,000 slaving voyages and their impact on the lives
of 10 million Africans by name. Related information may be found on the scholarly blog
African Diaspora, Ph.D.
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