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American Colonization Society, Library of Congress Exhibit: The U.S. Library of Congress holds the records of the American Colonization Society which established Liberia. The exhibit descriptions provide historical background on this period. The Colonization section is part of the African-American Mosaic exhibit. http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html

American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States

Amistad Links: Links to sites about the Amistad incident. Includes Exploring Amistad, a web site, partially funded by NEH, which will have primary historical documents. Also links to the Steven Spielberg/Debbie Allen film site which has a slavery timeline and huge (9MB) film trailer/ads video clips. http://www.amistad.org/

Ancient Dutch Forts and Castles in Ghana - Michel R. Doortmont and Michel van den Nieuwenhof: "Some notes on Fort Patience (Apam) and Ussher Fort (Accra). A special contribution to the official home page of the Netherlands Embassy in Accra by Michel R. Doortmont and Michel van den Nieuwenhof." Part of the web site of the Netherlands Embassy in Accra, Ghana. http://www.ambaccra.nl/pages/c_forts.htm

Arts Diary - The Slave Route: "The history of slavery in South Africa is as old as the establishment of white settlement at the Cape; the first slaves were domestic servants in Jan van Riebeeck’s household." From the 1999 Arts Diary site sponsored by the South African government's Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. [KF] http://www.artsdiary.org.za/guide99/slaveroute.html

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Demographic Simulation: Developed by Patrick Manning, (Prof. of History and African-American Studies, Director, World History Center, Northeastern Univ., Boston) and Northeastern Computer Science Dept. members. Manning writes: "This simulation, ... enables users to set input data (rates of birth, death and migration), and observe the results for free, slave, and captive populations in Africa and in the Americas. Teachers and students may find it useful in sorting out the many connections involved in this forced migration. The site will be revised and updated regularly, especially in response to user comments. Part of a larger project on Migration in Modern World History, based at the World History Center at Northeastern, developed with support of The Annenberg/CPB Project.". http://www.whc.neu.edu/afrintro.htm

The Atlantic World: An Electronic Exploration: A discussion on the Atlantic World of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. "We envision papers that will be of interest to all who explore Atlantic history, but also papers that attract electronic gatherings of scholars whose interests are in a more narrowly defined subject such as the first British Empire or the Atlantic slave trade." Has full text of "African Political Ethics and the Slave Trade, Central African Dimensions," by John Thornton
: "Scholars who have work in progress that they wish to test by putting it before a collegial gathering of others interested in the field are invited to send a paper in electronic form to one of the seminar moderators, listed below. They will share such submissions and rapidly decide which to post. If a paper is accepted the moderators will arrange with the author for a mutually convenient time when the author will be available for a ninety minute to two hour electronic chat session for discussion of the paper." The moderators are Dr. Francis J. Bremer and Dr. John Thornton or Millersville University (in Pennsylvania). http://www.millersv.edu/~winthrop/atlantic.html

Atlas Mutual Heritage (Amsterdam): A data-bank on the Dutch East India Company trading posts and settlements which will include paintings, drawings, maps, prints and photographs.; "The first stage of the project involves the collation of illustrative data in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg in Zeist and the Algemeen Rijksarchief in The Hague. Stage 2 will include the collation of illustrative data relating to Dutch East India Co. settlements in other collections in the Netherlands and abroad."; "The data-bank is primarily intended for storing information relating to VOC settlements in Africa and Asia as well as illustrations of these settlements. The AMH data-bank can also be adapted for supplementary modules: for example, the Portuguese East India Company, embassies and expeditions, Dutch monuments overseas from 1800 to the present day." http://www.art-culture.nl/amh/index.html