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Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism: "Compiled from Archive, library and Internet source documentation, this timeline on Slavery and in part the History of Racism, has been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of enslaved Americans of African descent..." Compiled by Eddie Becker.; The chronology begins with "1619. The forerunner of slavery in English colonies begins in Jamestown, Virginia, with the arrival of 20 black indentured servants aboard a Dutch vessel." On the Columbia Heights web site, a community in Washington, D.C. http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

Conference - Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britian and its Colonies, 1660-1838, 6 - 7 April 2001: Many papers presented at the conference at the Institute of English Studies, London, United Kingdom will be published in a 2004 anthology. http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/dsa.htm

Conference - Olaudah Equiano: Representation and Reality. Kingston University, Surrey, U.K., 22 March 2003: "the critics S.E. Ogude and Vincent Carretta have cast doubt over Equiano's account of his birth and upbringing in Africa, his kidnapping, and his experience of the Middle Passage." Proposals for papers are due 30 November 2002. http://humansciences.king.ac.uk/humanities/english/equiano.html

Creolist Archives: Page of the CreoLIST mailing list for creolists and others interested in creolistics and other contact language issues. The website has a searchable inventory of various alternative names for West African ethnolinguistic groups involved in the transatlantic slave trade, by Mikael Parkvall. [KF] http://www.ling.su.se/Creole/

Curtin, Philip D. and Herbert S. Klein. Records of Slave Ship Movements Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843: Compiled by Philip D. Curtin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin (1967). Edited by Herbert Klein, Columbia University, New York (1973). From Parliamentary Papers XLIX (73) 593-633, Foreign Office, 1845. "...contains information on the ship's port of arrival, date of arrival, type of vessel, tonnage, master's name, number of guns, number of crew, national flag, number of slaves, port of departure, number of days of voyage, and mortality." The site is part of Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro1.html

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. "The Souls of Black Folk; Essays and Sketches" (1903): Project Gutenberg provides the full-text of the book. ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext96/soulb10.txt

Dutch Portuguese Colonial History: Dutch in South Africa, Portuguese language heritage in Africa, European forts in Ghana, Madagascar, Chronology of Portuguese possessions in Africa, Chronology of Dutch Possessions in Africa, a bibliography of Dutch Colonial history (16th-18th c.) by Marco Ramerini. the Dutch in Mauritius, bibliographies. Maintained by Marco Ramerini from Firenze, Italy. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/

Equiano, Olaudah b. 1745 - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.: Vol. I. London: Author, [1789]. Full text of the book. Electronic version by [Chapel Hill, N.C.] :; Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html

See also the site Carey, Brycchan - "Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African."

France. Bibliotheque nationale. Voyages en Afrique: In French. "900 volumes de textes, 30 titres de revues, 80 cartes venant des collections imprimées de la BnF, 20 heures d'enregistrements sonores des fonds du Musée de la parole et du geste et 6500 photographies issues des fonds de la Société de géographie." Access documents by type (books, journals, maps, photographs), geographic area, era. Part of the French national library's Gallica site. http://gallica.bnf.fr/VoyagesEnAfrique/; Contents include:
Maps of peoples and kingdoms, colonial history, physical map, antique maps, nautical maps

Full text books, journal articles, maps illustrating themes: L'Europe découvre l'Afrique (includes L'Esclavage), L'Afrique des cultures, Histoire coloniale : la France en Afrique, L'Afrique vue depuis la France.

Journal articles (Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris; Bulletin de la Société de géographie de Paris; le Tour du Monde, 1860-1914; La Géographie; Bulletin de la Société de géographie commerciale de Bordeaux; Revue maritime et coloniale, Annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire: Nouvelles annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire. and many more.; A Bibliography and a Chronology and Music from the 1930s and earlier (see L'Afrique vue depuis la France).

France. Ministere des affaires etrangeres. La Petite Bibliotheque de France: In French. Has La traite des Noirs, an essay, by Éric Saugera, on the slave trade. Includes a chronology, bibliography. [KF] http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/france/biblio/

Ghana and Holland, Three Hundred Years: In English and Dutch. Commemorates 300 years of diplomatic relations between Ghana and the Netherlands. Has a short history of Netherlands / Ghana relations from the 1593 arrival of the Dutch in Sao Tome and the 1701 visit of the first European to the Ashanti Kingdom, of slavery, and present day relations. Read about Ghanaians in Holland (their organizations, the 16,000 people of Ghanaian origin living in the Netherlands). Has short video clips from Back to Kotoka, a soap opera about Ghanaians in Holland, articles on (Ghana's forts and the slave trade, a slave who defended the slave trade, Ghanaians in search of their Dutch Ancestors, funerals in Ghana), a piece on Arthur Japin's book, The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi', a piece on Dutch wax textiles with a link to the Vlisco companies. There is a schedule of events including the visit of Crown Prince William to Ghana, a booklet, in Dutch, on Ghanaians in Holland, the photographer Philip Kwame Apagya, a selection of historical photos taken between 1880 and 1890, and many more articles. [KF] http://www.ghana300holland.nl/

Ghana. Public Records and Archives Administration Department (Accra, Ghana): Formerly Ghana National Archives. Has addresses of the Regional Offices, a list of documents relating to the trans-atlantic slave trade (including images of some documents). Observers thirty years access to records. E-mail: praad@internetghana.com http://www.praadgh-gov.org

Gross-Friedrichsburg in Princess Town Ghana: In English and German. About a film and book, "Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste. Die brandenburgisch-preußische Kolonie Großfriedrichsburg in Westafrika" on a Prussian fort on the coast of Ghana built by Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg (1640 - 1688)." Includes a chronology, map, Site by Selignow, publisher of the book on the Prussian fort. The "Brandenburg - Princess Town - Eine Welt e.V." association supports maintenance of the fort. http://www.gross-friedrichsburg.de