Contemporary Slavery

Academic Centers

Documents, Narratives, Texts

Public History: Media, Museums and Sites.

The African-American Mosaic - A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

http://www.mariner.org/

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
http://www.nmm.ac.uk

The Anacostia Museum and Centre for African American History and Culture
http://www.si.edu/anacostia/

The African American Museum in Philadelphia
http://aampmuseum.org/

B. Davis Scwartz Memorial Library - Web Resources on Slavery.
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslvwww.htm

Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation.
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~slavery/

Wilberforce House, Hull
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/wilberforcehouse/index_body.html

Bristol City Museums
http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk

UNESCO Slave Route Project
http://www.unesco.org/culture/dialogue/slave/html_eng/origin.shtml

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Breaking the silence (Educational Project)
http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/asp/tst/index.htm

Henrietta Marie, 17th century slave ship
http://www.historical-museum.org/exhibits/hm/henmarie.htm

African-American issues on the web
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html

Black history
http://www.blackhistory.com/

Island of Goree, Senegal
http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/
 

Steven Mintz's Excerpts from Slave Narratives.

American Slave Narratives: An On-line Anthology.
Excerpts from the WPA Slave Narratives of the 1930s

Testimony of Canadian Fugitives.
(U. of Gruningen)

Items from Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library, prepared by the Electronic Text Center.

Slavery Sources at Hanover College.

Materials on Slavery From the UNC-CH Collections.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project.
 Documents related to the emancipation of slaves during the Civil War era

African-American Resources from Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library (UVa Electronic Text Center). Primary sources on black life

African American History Archives in the World History Archives.

Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices From the Duke University Special Collections Library.

UPA Guides

USF Library Sources on Slavery

 

The Abolitionist

Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts

Nineteenth Century Documents Project, Furman University

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina

African American Mosaic, Library of Congress

African-American Perspectives 1818-1907 (Daniel P. Murray Collection of African American Pamphlets, Library of Congress

The Emancipation Proclamation, National Archives

African American History at Mississippi State University

 

From F. Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard States (U. of Gruningen)

Digitized Library of Southern Literature

Memoirs and Diaries written by Southerners about the 19th-century

Autobiographies written in American South in the last century
 

The Church and Slavery (U. of Michigan/MOA)

Conscience and the Constitution, with remarks on the recent speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster. (MOA)

Cotton is king; or The Culture of Cotton, and its relation to agriculture...(U. of Michigan/MOA)

The fire and hammer of God's word against slavery. (U. of Michigan/MOA)

The fugitive slave bill, or God's laws paramount to the laws of men. (U. of Michigan/MOA)

Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 (Virginia)

God against slavery: and the freedom and duty of the pulpit to rebuke it, as a sin against God. (U. of Michigan/MOA)

Henry Carey, The Slave Trade (1853) (U. of Gruningen)

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? (U. of Michigan/MOA)

John Brown's Raid (U. of Virginia)

Letter of O.W. Dolen (1840) (Tim Gore)

Letter to Hon. W.C. Rives of Virginia, on Slavery and the Union (U. of Michigan/MOA)

Ought American Slavery to be perpetuated? A debate between Rev. W. G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne. (U. of Michigan/MOA)

A review of Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled Conscience and the Constitution. (U. of Michgan/MOA)

The Rightful Remedy. Addressed to the Slaveholders of the South. (U. of Michigan/MOA)

Rights and duties of the United States relative to slavery under the laws of war.(U. of Michigan/MOA)

A Scriptural examination of the institution of Slavery in the United States.(U. of Michigan/MOA)

Slavery and the war: a historical essay. (U. of Michigan/MOA)

A Slave's Story (1857) (U. of Virginia)

Speech of Hon. C.C. Clay, jr. on slavery issues, delivered at Huntsville, Alabama.(U. of Michigan/MOA)

The Dred Scott Case (1856) (U. of Kansas)

Atlantic Slave Trade, Demographic Simulation

Historical, Social and Demographic Data from the US Decennial Census

Statistics on Slavery

Studies In The World History Of Slavery, Abolition And Emancipation

Slavery and Abolition Home Page

The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery

Slavery In America

Steven Mintz's Home Page

Museum of Slavery

Underground Railroad (National Parks Service Site)

Canadian Confederation: The Blacks, Anti-Slavery and the Underground Railway

LII Amistad Home Page

Amistad, the Film

American Anti-Slavery Group

Anti-Slavery International - Home Page

Human Enslavement