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Home / Society / History / By Time Period / Eighteenth Century / Slavery
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- A Positive Light - Freedom Shackled - The slave ship, Henrietta Marie, speaks from its watery grave to give us the first true picture of the horror that men, women and children suffered in the Atlantic slave trade.
www.execpc.com/~shepler/slaveship.html
- African American Journey - From Africa to America. World Book has prepared the story of African Americans, detailing the journey from Africa to slavery, emancipation, and the struggle for civil rights.
www2.worldbook.com/features/aajourney/html/intro.html
- African American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 1) - Library of Congress exhibit explores the methods used by Africans and their American-born descendants to resist enslavement, as well as to demand emancipation and full participation in American society.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
- African Americans at Jamestown - Timeline of the legislation which carried into law the evolution of American slavery. Includes bibliography of further reading.
www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/AFRICANS.html
- Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Companion web-site to Manu Herbstein's historical novel, Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award. The web-site contains background texts, references and material on issues such as racism and reparations.
www.ama.africatoday.com
- Boston Abolitionist Sermon regarding the Fugitive Slave Bill - Abolitionist Sermon delivered October 20, 1850 at Tremont Street Church, Boston by Rev. Nathaniel Colver. "The Fugitive Slave Bill, or, God's Laws Paramount to the Laws of Men." Image files of original 24 page booklet.
www.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABT8678
- Captive Passage - Tells the epic maritime story of how enslaved Africans were transported from the coasts of Africa to American shores.
www.mariner.org/captivepassage
- Chronology On The History Of Slavery, 1619-1789 - this page contains a timeline of slavery in America from 1619 until "the end", reportedly in 1865 when the 13th amendment to the Constitution offered universal manumission and abolished slavery. The chronology has been thoroughly researched, with references at the end of each entry, some pointing to other Web resources.
innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
- Click2History: Slave Voices - Links to original source materials, hundreds of organized pictures and graphics which tell the story of American slavery from the slaves' perspective.
www.click2history.com/slave_voices/slave_voices_ch1.htm
- Frederick Douglass - A tribute to the man who dedicated his work and life fighting slavery. Read about his family, religious beliefs, and concept of equality.
www.barefoot-webland.com/FD
- Harriet Tubman Conductor of the Underground Railroad - Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the Moses of her people.
americancivilwar.com/women/harriet_tubman.html
- How the Cradle of Liberty Became a Slave-Owning Nation - Detailed article published by the Washington Post on the origins of American slavery, from its origins in European ignorance towards Africans at the time of European exploration, to George Washington's vested interests in the institution.
www.innercity.org/columbiaheights/newspaper/slavery.html
- Lost Americans Web - Website devoted to hard to find ancestors, esspecially African American slaves, freedmen, Native Americans, and Mixed-Bloods.
lostamericans.netfirms.com
- North American Slave Narratives - Slave narratives from the beginning of American slavery until the 1920's. Published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html
- Original Slave Trade Documents from the 18th and 19th Centuries - This site provides access to raw data and documentation on a variety of slave trade topics from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Published by the Data and Program Library Service
dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
- Requests from Ex-slaves for Pensions from Ex-slaveowners - What happened to the strange relationships between slaves and those who claimed to own them -- after their emancipation by the 13th Amendment? Evidence from the William Preston family papers shows several intriguing aspects.
www.uky.edu/LCC/HIS/scraps/joe.html
- Sixteen Largest County Slave Owners in the U.S. in 1860 - From the 1860 U.S. slave census, data on slavery and a list of the 16 slaveholders who held 500 or more slaves in any single County. Includes citation to sources.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/biggest16.htm
- Slave Narratives - Excerpts from Slave Narratives, published by the University of Houston.
vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
- Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870 - List of large slaveholders from 1860 County slave census, and surname matches for African Americans on 1870 census, with an alphabetical index of holders of 10% of all slaves in the U.S.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac
- Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation - Resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.
www.brycchancarey.com/slavery
- The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom - Collection of articles published by the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library of Long Island University summarizing American slavery. Includes timelines, biographies and links to further reading.
www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
- The Dred Scott Case - Dred Scott, a fifty year-old slave, and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. The disposition of this case, and its infamous ruling, contributed to the tensions leading to the Civil War.
library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott
- The Roots of American Slavery: A Bibliographical Essay - Bibliographical essay by Philip J. Schwarz, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University. Lists many books on the subject with comments on the contents and value.
www.stratfordhall.org/schwarz.htm
- PBS: Africans in America, Part 1, The Terrible Transformation - Numerous articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion into Africa to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, illustrations.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html
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