• A chronology of slavery
  A detailed and scholarly chronology of slavery and abolition from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. If, like me, you have sound on your PC you will get an interesting sound file as well.
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
  At Yale University in the US, this academic centre is "dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction."
• The history of slavery
  A really comprehensive set of links on slavery and abolition
• Slavery and Abolition
  Slavery and Abolition is the most important academic journal in the field.

British Slavery and Abolition

• Black and Asian History Map
  This site, run by Channel 4, is a superb resource for anyone interested in the history of the black and Asian presence in the United Kingdom, from the earliest times to the present day.
• Bristol and Slavery
  Home page of a website that explores Bristol's involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the impact on modern Bristol. A very useful site.
• British Anti-slavery
  Written by the historian John Oldfield, and presented by the BBC, this is a brief but very useful introduction to the history of the British anti-slavery movement.
• PORT, the Maritime Information Gateway
  Hosted by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, this fully searchable site provides a wealth of resources for the slave trade and for maritime history more generally.
• Slaves' Stories
  "The year is 1780. In this year European traders will take thousands of Africans into slavery. This website follows four of those people..." This is an excellent website for children, hosted by the Liverpool Museums Service.
• Transatlantic Slavery, Merseyside Maritime Museum
  Information on the slavery exhibits at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
• The Wilberforce House Museum
  William Wilberforce's house in Hull is open to the public as a museum of his life and the campaign against slavery.
• www.blackpresence.co.uk
  The history pages at www.blackpresence.co.uk offer a useful introduction for the the general reader.

North American Slavery and Abolition    

• Africans in America
  Maintained by PBS, an American broadcaster, this site is an excellent introduction to the history of slavery in the United States.
• Black Loyalist Heritage Society
  A Canadian site exploring the history of the 'Black Loyalists': Africans and slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolution. Includes detailed archaeological information about the Loyalist colonies in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
• Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
  A large collection of slavery-related images from the Library of Congress
• North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
  This important site "documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." It includes the full texts of almost 300 slave narratives.
• Slavery in Mexico
  A short but useful introduction to the history of slavery in Mexico.
• Slavery in the North
  A text-heavy, but very informative site about the history of slavery in the northern states of the United States.
• The 1817 diaries of the Quaker Merchant, John Adamson
  A Quaker abolitionist's eyewitness book on slavery and travel in the USA between the war of independence and the civil war. This is mostly a book advert but contains some useful information.
• Twentieth Century African American Writers
  Homepage of a forthcoming encyclopdedia edited by Dr. Wilfred Samuels at the University of Utah. Although focusing on the twentieth century, it will have much to say about writing produced during - and about - the years of slavery.
• Virginia Runaways Project
  A digital database of runaway and captured slave and servant advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. Part of 'Virtual Jamestown'.

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