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- The
African Background of American Culture Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade
- An NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers at the Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities, June 8- July 3, 1998 on the African background to
American history, and the processes that brought Africans to the British
Americas from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries.
Participants were full time undergraduate teachers. Co-directors were Jerome
S. Handler (Anthropology) and Joseph C. Miller (History).
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~roots/site/home.html
- African Century
- E-magazine with full text articles such as "Unfinished
Business: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in Africa"
by Professor J. F. Ade Ajayi. Managing editor of the e-magazine is Dapo
Ladimeji. "Dapo Ladimeji was educated at Cambridge University and holds an
MBA with distinction from Insead, Fontainebleau. He works as a chartered
accountant and is currently International Tax Partner in a major City firm
in London)." http://www.african-century.com/
- African
Studies Quarterly
- A Roundtable on Reparations
- Includes "From Slave Ship to Space Ship: Africa Between Marginalization
and Globalization" by Ali Mazrui, "Political Versus Legal Strategies for the
African Slavery Reparations Movement" by Ricardo Laremont, "The Debt Has Not
Been Paid; the Accounts Have Not Been Settled" by Dudley Thompson. Volume 2,
Issue 4, [1998]. Electronic journal published by the Univ. of Florida,
Center for African Studies. http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i4.htm
- Africans in America -
October 19-22, 1998
- "a companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television
series. The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United
States -- from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to
the end of the American Civil War in 1865 -- " Covers People & Events,
Historical Documents; has a
Teacher's Guide.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
- AfriGeneas, African Ancestored
Genealogy
- Has an beginners' guide, discussion list, surnames database, U.S.
censuses, a description of the
Louisiana Slave
Database, 1719-1820, ny Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, and other databases,
transcripts of America On Line interviews in the Genealogy Forum with
Professor Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and others, newspaper / journal articles,
related sites. [KF] http://www.afrigeneas.com
- Afro-Louisiana History and
Genealogy, 1719-1820
- Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, New Orleans writer and historian, assembled
over 15 years a database of 100,000 slaves brought to Louisiana in
the 18th and 19th centuries. Information was gathered from courthouses in
Louisiana, and archives in France, Spain and Texas. Dr. Hall's database
contains information about African slave names, gender, ages,
occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin,
prices paid by slave owners, and slaves' testimony and emancipations.
Through the free online database " locate individual slaves who lived in
Louisiana between the years of 1718 and 1820..." Search by name, origin of
the slaves, gender, racial designation, or plantation location. Includes a
listing of slaves with African names, slaves involved in a conspiracy or
a revolt against slavery, charts of characteristics, etc. One can
download the slave database. http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/
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