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Lovejoy, Paul E. (ed.) / Africans in bondage: studies in slavery and the slave trade: essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986)

Full text. From the University of Wisconsin Libraries Africana Digitization Project. See the Copyright notice for use. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Africana.Lovejoy Includes -
Chapter 1: when did smallpox reach the New World (and why does it matter)?, Henige, David
Chapter 2: the company trade and the numerical distribution of slaves to Spanish America, 1703-1739, Palmer, Colin A.
Chapter 3: slave prices in the Portuguese southern Atlantic, 1600-1830, Miller, Joseph C.
Chapter 6: Anastácia and the slave women of Rio de Janeiro, Karasch, Mary
Chapter 5: healing and race in the South Carolina low country, Shick, Tom W.
Chapter 6: the slave trade in Niger Delta oral tradition and history, Alagoa, E. J.
Chapter 7: the Atlantic slave trade and the Gabon Estuary: the Mpongwe to 1860, Bucher, Henry
Chapter 8: Kru emigration to British and French Guiana, 1841-1857, Schuler, Monica
Chapter 9: slave trade, "legitimate" trade, and imperialism revisited: the control of wealth in the Bights of Benin and Biafra, Manning, Patrick
Chapter 10: problems of slave control in the Sokoto Caliphate, Lovejoy, Paul E.
Chapter 11: ex-slaves, transfrontiersmen and the slave trade: the Chikunda of the Zambesi Valley, 1850-1900, Isaacman, Allen
Chapter 12: slaves into soldiers: social origins of the Tirailleurs Senegalais, Echenberg, Myron
Chapter 13: warlords and enslavement: a sampleof slave raiders from eastern Ubangi-Shari, 1870-1920, Cordell, Dennis D.

Museum of African Slavery - Pier Larson: " designed as a site for remembering the experiences of enslaved Africans." "The information at this site derives from Professor Larson's lectures and his reading of the existing research on slavery and the slave trade." Includes excerpts from "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African", Frequently Asked Questions, "Who Owns History? Some Thoughts on the Slave Trade and Related Issues" by Ralph Austen. http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~plarson/smuseum/welcome.htm

Mystic Seaport Museum. Exploring Amistad: The Amistad ship uprising "set off an intense legal, political, and popular debate over the slave trade, slavery, race, Africa, and ultimately America itself." Has an account of "the Africans' enslavement, revolt, legal struggle, and eventual return to Africa."

Includes background essays with full text primary sources, several Timelines (Atlantic slave trade, Sierra Leone & West Africa to 1849, etc.), a curriculum / teachers' section. Includes the essay, "The African Squadron, The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1920-1862" by Calvin Lane, professor emeritus of English at the University of Hartford and the full text of "A History of the Amistad Captives" by John Warner Barber (New Haven, Connecticut: E.L. and J.W.Barber, 1840.) The Museum is located in Mystic, Connecticut. http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, U.K. - Port: "The National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, London) has the largest and best collection of maritime-related artefacts [sic] in the world." Sections include "Slavery" with images (and a paragraph on each image) of The Slave Trade, the Abolition Movement, Trade with Colonial Africa. Has a timeline, a database connecting geographic locations to historical events, research guides for those doing in depth research. [KF] http://www.PORT.nmm.ac.uk

Nigerian Hinterland Project: "The Nigerian Hinterland Project affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project focuses on the development of the African diaspora stemming from the "Nigerian" hinterland during the era of the slave trade from approximately 1650 to 1900." Projects include: Archival Inventory and Preservation of Primary Sources, Biographical Data Base of Enslaved Africans, Historical Atlas of Slavery, Ports of the "Nigerian" Hinterland, The Muslim Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Route, Ethnic Identity in the Diaspora and the Nigerian Hinterland, Linkages between the Diaspora and the Nigerian Hinterland. Has full text of the Nigerian Hinterland Project Newsletter. The Director is Paul E. Lovejoy. Based at the Dept. of History, York University, Toronto, Canada.; Has the full text of the Tubman Seminar papers and some full text papers from the conference "Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora" July, 2000, Enugu, Nigeria. [KF]
http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/

Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Media Database: Compiled by Jerome Handler (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) and Michael Tuite (Digital Medial Laboratory, University of Virginia). Images of the slave trade in Africa and the Americas. http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/index.html

Shick, Tom W., Roll of the Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia Sent by the American Colonization Society from 1820-1843: The raw data and documentation which records all emigrants to Liberia between 1820-1843, brought by the American Colonization Society can be downloaded. The data set includes place of origin/arrival, status of individual, occupation, name of the ship which carried the emigrant, etc. Bundled with this is the data set, Liberian Census Data, 1843. The late,Tom Shick, Dept. of Afro-American Studies, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, was Principal Investigator of this project. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Liberia

Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Contains raw data and documentation. Includes -
Curtin, Philip D. and Herbert S. Klein. Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843
Curtin, Philip D. Slave Ships of Eighteenth Century France, 1748-1756, 1763-1792
Klein, Herbert S. Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1795-1811
Klein, Herbert S. Virginia Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1727-1769
Klein, Herbert S. English Slave Trade, 1791-1799 (House of Lords Survey)
Klein, Herbert S. Angola Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1723-1771
Klein, Herbert S. Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-1830
Klein, Herbert S. Internal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1852
Klein, Herbert S. Slave Trade to Havana, Cuba, 1790-1820
Klein, Herbert S. Nantes Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1711-1791
Engerman, Stanley L. and Herbert S. Klein. Slave Trade to Jamaica, 1782-1788, 1805-1808
Distributed by Data and Program Library Service University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html

Slavery @ the Cape of Good Hope in both Dutch and British South Africa: Contents include (from book sources) the Cape slave code of 1754, social conditions of slaves at the Cape, a timeline of slavery at the Cape, an extensive bibliography, scholars of slave history, etc. Hosted on the Dutch East India Company website of the University of Ghent (Belgium).Site by Mogamat G Kamedien. http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/

Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia - British History 1700-1930: The Slave Trade: Includes passages from primary sources, illustrations. Accounts of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah Equiano, Zamba Zembola, and others. Covers the slave system, life, Amistad, anti-slavery legislation, anti-slavery organizations, etc.; See also U.S. 1840-1960. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm
From Spartacus Educational and Schoolnet (a U.K. company providing internet service to schools). http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm

[Speedy] Sarah Speedy: Daughter of Colonel Squire, Wife of Major Speedy ~ Recollections 1818 to 1859: Edited by Allan Lawrence Tristram Speedy. Full text account. 33 p. Sarah Speedy relates her travels in India, Mauritius, South Africa from 1818-1859, meeting with Robert Moffat, the missionary, helping Colonel Graham mark out Grahamstown, brief comments on slaves and other events. Allan Speedy, the great great grandson of Sarah Speedy, lives in New Zealand. [KF] http://www.speedy.co.nz/recollections/

Stanford University. The Slave Trade: A selection of microform sources and print sources for studying the slave trade. In Stanford and outside Stanford. Notes for a two-week seminar. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/slavetrade.html
Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: An e-journal edited by Patrick Manning, John Saillant and Anthony Henderson-Whyte. It will be an occasional publication featuring essays, documents, images, bibliographies and database information relevant to the history of slavery, abolition, and emancipation. The journal is intended to provide a global context for slave studies. The project is intended also to link scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Although the project's primary means of dissemination is electronic, printed copies can be made available to scholars and libraries that lack access to the Internet. The site has a keyword search facility. Vol. 1, No. 1 is August 1996. http://h-net.msu.edu/~slavery/

This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys: Site for the TV program. Site does not work in some older browsers. Includes a profile of Olaudah Equiano, an essay on Religion in Africa, and a timeline beginning with 1526: the first North American slave revolt. Estimated Number of Africans Exported By Region, Estimated Number of Africans, Imported to the Americas,1451-1870. "a co-production of Blackside Inc. and The Faith Project, Inc. in association with the Independent Television Service. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/

UNESCO. Africa Revisited: In English and French. About the "richness, the diversity, and the fragility" of Africa's cultural heritage. Includes West African forts (Elmina, Goree, James Fort). Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. [KF] http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/toc.htm

UNESCO. Slave Trade Archives Project: UNESCO has set up an International Scientific Committee for the Slave Route Project to examine the question of the slave trade and its impact on relevant countries. A "...feasibility study will identify national archives and related institutions in six African countries (Angola, Benin, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal) and in Brazil, Haiti and St. Croix to upgrade their facilities and services." http://webworld.unesco.org/slave_quest/en/ Also: http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/mow_projects.html#4 and http://www.unesco.org/webworld/news/2001/010125_slavetrade.shtml

UNESCO World Heritage Sites: "The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage... agreement, signed to date by more than 150 States Parties, was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972. Its primary mission is to define and conserve the world's heritage, by drawing up a list of sites whose outstanding values should be preserved for all humanity and to ensure their protection through a closer co-operation among nations."
Africa sites include the island of Goree. http://www.unesco.org/whc/nwhc/pages/sites/maplist/africa.htm

United States. Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. 19th Century maps of Liberia: "...includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to be the black American explorer Benjamin Anderson." Has a History of Liberia Timeline. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/libhome.html

United States. Library of Congress. Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860: "Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860, contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States." "trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works.....Of the cases presented here, most took place in America and a few in Great Britain." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/

University of Calgary. Dept. of History. European Voyages of Exploration: A tutorial with a section on African exploration. Includes Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal, the Sugar and Slave Trades. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/eurvoya/index.html

University of California, Santa Barbara. Department of Black Studies: Has a brief account of West African history from the 16th c. and the slave trade to the West Indies; part of an online course. http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/blac/
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