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Harvard University. Atlantic History Seminar: "Members of the Seminar are drawn from the nations of Western Europe, Africa, and Latin America, joined by U.S. and Canadian scholars who are also at an early stage of their careers, for presentation of work in progress,... and exchange of views with senior scholars." See the Working Paper Abstracts for papers such as "Women as Actors and Victims of the Slave Trade in Igboland, Nigeria" by Gloria Ifeoma Chuku (1999 papers).

The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1527-1867 was the 1998 workshop. Has full text (in Adobe .pdf format) of the introduction by David Eltis to a cd-rom database of 27,224 slave voyages, 1562-1867. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~atlantic/index.html

Herbstein, Manu - "Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade": Site for a 450 page novel on Ama, captured and enslaved in Ghana in the eighteenth century and taken to a sugar estate in Brazil. The novel recounts "the experience of enslavement and resistance, seen from the point of view of one African slave." Has excerpts and maps from the novel, bibliographies of related sources, excerpts from books related to Attitudes to Slavery and the Slave Trade, links to related sites. Manu Herbstein's book won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book overall and for the Africa Region. http://www.ama.africatoday.com/

History Footsteps. Victoria County History Project: Includes The Bristol Slavery Trail. The British port town of Bristol was involved with the Transatlantic slave trade "just over 150 years from around the 1660's to the early 1800's. History as "told through historical documents (in Archive section), illustrations, photographs, video clips, with activity sheets for young people. There are teachers' notes. "The Slave Trail web was commissioned in 2001 by the Victoria County History Project based at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London..." [KF] http://www.historyfootsteps.net/

H-Slavery: Moderated discussion list "to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation....dedicated to the dissemination of information about the history of slavery and antislavery in all time periods and parts of the world." Subscribe at http://www.h-net.org/lists/subscribe.cgi or at http://www.h-net.org/~slavery/; To subscribe by e-mail, send a message from the account where
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Hunwick, John - "The Same but Different: Approaches to Slavery and the African Diaspora in the Lands of Islam": Full text in Adobe PDF format, in the Saharan Studies Association Newsletter, V. 7, No. 1/2, Dec. 1999. Keynote address, Workshop on Slavery and the African Diaspora in the Lands of Islam, Northwestern Univ. 1999. On the web site of the Saharan Studies Association. http://ssa.sri.com:8002/news/newsletters/v7n1-2.pdf

Internet African History Sourcebook - Paul Halsall: Has many full-text sources on the Impact of Slavery, including excerpts from "Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African" (London, 1789). Maintained by Paul Halsall, Fordham University. [KF] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html

Klein, Herbert S. Angola Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1723-1771 (1970?, 1997): "...contains information on the date ship sailed, name of ship, Brazilian port of arrival, persons (adults and children) shipped, total number of slaves aboard, physical capacity (arqueacao) of the ship." The site is part of Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Distributed by Data and Program Library Service University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/slaintro6.html

Library of Congress. Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu: "Dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries, the ancient manuscripts... are indicative of the high level of civilization attained by West Africans during the Middle Ages." "The manuscripts...are from the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of Boujbeha,..." Has images of the documents which concern Islamic knowledge of astronomy, law, the Songhai Empire, slavery, Sufi religion, mathematics, political governance, medical knowledge, attitude towards non-Muslims, trade. [KF] http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mali/

Livingstone, David, "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa": Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. (London, 1857). Full-text of the book with information on slavery. Part of Project Gutenberg. Includes an 1858 review of the book in Harper's Magazine. [KF] http://tom.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/lookup?num=1039

Livingstone (David) National Memorial, Blantyre, Scotland: About the Livingstone Centre in Blantyre where Livingstone was born. Includes a biography of Livingstone. http://www.biggar-net.co.uk/livingstone/

Lodhi, Abdulaziz Y. - The Institution of Slavery in Zanzibar and Pemba: (Research Report 16) 43 p. Uppsala, Sweden, Scandivavian Institute of African Studies (now Nordiska Afrikainstitutet), 1973. Full text report, in Adobe pdf. Appendix I: Categories of Africans and Arabs. [KF] http://130.238.24.99/webbshop/epubl/rr/rr016.pdf