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Ability's African-American History Page
This is a disability friendly website.
AcademicInfo
This in-depth directory is a round up of the best and most useful links and resources within a specific subject area. In most cases they list both printed reference works and electronic resources. The subject guides are also put together taking into account their accessibility, authoritative sources as well as their ease of use and aim to present a fair and well rounded perspective of the respective subject matter.
ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVES, Inc.,
A provider of electronic full-text searchable 18th and 19th century historical databases. It publishes an on-line version of "The Liberator," (1831-1865), a weekly newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston, Massachusetts.
African American Historical Alliance (SC)
The African American Historical Alliance, a South Carolina-based nonprofit organization, is a leading resource for education and the celebration of African American Civil War and Reconstruction history in South Carolina. The Alliance strives to enhance the quality of life in the communities of South Carolina by promoting the common heritage and shared legacy of all our people. We do this through our programs - preservation, education and commemoration.
African American Resources at the Smithsonian
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
This new, online newsletter addresses the broader subject areas of African diasporas worldwide, and related archaeological and historical studies. It is published quarterly, with issues in September, December, March, and June.
The African Online Digital Library
AODL serves scholars and students conducting research and teaching about West and South Africa as well as teachers and students of African languages in both the United States and Africa.
African Voices at the Smithsonian
Africana: Gateway to the Black World
The Africana Heritage Project
This free access website
was begun in order to assist African Americans who are researching their family histories. Their mission is to rediscover those valuable records that document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons, and their descendants.
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.
African-American History at About
African-American History at the SC State Department of Education
African-American In History at ProTeacher
African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
An online exhibition with graphics, primary sources, and historical narrative.
African-American Odyssey: Library of Congres
The Peculiar Institution (Part I) 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.
African-American Perspectives
Audio clips, samples of text, and historical facts relating to pamphlets written by African-American authors between 1818 and 1907.
African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
Within this web presentation, the Massachusetts Historical Society brings together historical manuscripts and rare published works that serve as a window upon the lives of African Americans in Massachusetts from the late seventeenth century through the abolition of slavery under the Massachusetts Constitution in the 1780s.
Description of early history of slavery at Jamestown, timeline of pertinent events, and bibliography of further reading.
African-Americans in South Carolina at SCIway
Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
The companion site to the series, offering hundreds of primary source documents, scholarly essays, and stories from the series. The Terrible Transformation (Part I) includes numerours articles tracing the origins of American slavery fromthe European incursion into Africa to mid-18th century America, maps, timelines, illustrations.
Afro-Louisiana History & Genealogy, 1719 - 1820
A collection of documents from all over Louisiana, as well as archives in France, Spain and Texas, this database contains information about African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners, and slaves' testimony and emancipations.
After Slavery: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas
Aimed at historians and aspiring historians of slave emancipation and its aftermath, the site is a collaborative work-in-progress involving a team of four scholars based in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom, whose current research is focused on labor, race and citizenship in the post-emancipation Carolinas.
The Atlantic World and the Dutch 1500 - 2000
This project, "The Atlantic World and the Dutch", aims to preserve and study the mutual cultural heritage resulting from Dutch contact with the peoples of both Africa and the Americas over a period of some five hundred years.
America Cultural Resources Association
A 501-C-3
American Memory: From Slavery to Freedom
An array of historical collections and primary sources and archival history related to American culture and history.
American Slave Narratives
Narratives of former slaves (documented 1936-1938) of the 19thcentury.
American Slavery Until 1820
A brief history of american slavery up till the compromise of 1820.
Amistad at Mystic Seaport
Amistad Links.
Anthropology of Slavery: Black Africans and their Descendants in Spain (1492-1866)
A research project on the history of slavery and abolition in Spain. The website is in both English and Spanish and contains information about the research project and team, publications (some of which can be printed), documents, and links.
The Antislavery Literature Project
A series of online digital videos for education on the history and culture of the struggle against slavery in the United States. All resources are available for course adoption free of charge.
Archiving Early America
Access material from 18th-century America, including original newspapers, maps, and writings, as well as Early American Review, a historical journal.
Association for the Study of African-American Life and History
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Several hundred images relating to the slave trade, including maps, housed at the University of Virginia.
The Atlantic World Workshop at NYU
The Atlantic World Research Network at UNCG
The UNCG Atlantic World Research Network will embrace and foster interdisciplinary Atlantic World research, teaching, and creative work across campus. The Network also seeks to identify UNCG as the leader in Atlantic World Studies in the southeastern United States, and will provide leadership in Atlantic World Studies throughout North America and around the world.
Avalon Project - The Emancipation Proclamation
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Barbados Slave Registry
100,000 names of Barbados slaves registered in 1834 in the colony
Black History at Education Planet
Black History at Lesson Planet
Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
Black History Hotlist: A Collection of Internet Sites
Black History Month at Infoplease
Black History Month at LessonPlansPage.com
Black History Month at Teachervision.com
Black/African Related Resources
Black Seminoles
John Horse and the Black Seminoles: First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery. These maroon warriors, descendants of free blacks and fugitive slaves in the American South, led the largest slave revolt in American history, influenced Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation movement, and were the most successful black freedom fighters in the U.S. prior to the Civil War.
The Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
Brown University's research and education committee investigating the university's ties to slave trading and other topics.
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The Carolina Gold Rice Foundation
Celebrating Black History on the WebChronology 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.
The City of Bristol and Its Links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade
This website features the city’s links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade by tracing the history, the Trade Triangle, as well as the people and companies involved in the trade.
Coming To The Table
This initiative is an effort to involve direct descendants of slavery, black and white, in exploring their unique role in addressing the legacy of slavery, on a personal and societal level.
Complicity
Multimedia presentation of the Hartford Courant's 2002 special supplement exploring slavery in Connecticut
City of Charleston: Convention & Visitors Bureau
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Directory of Historical Records Depositories in South Carolina
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.
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk
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Ecclesiastical Sources and Historical Research on the African Diaspora in Brazil and Cuba
This project is advancing the study of slavery and the African diaspora by identifying, inventorying, and creating a digital archive of rich, underutilized, and at-risk ecclesiastical sources for Africans and persons of African descent in Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish circum-Caribbean.
Education World’s Black History on the Internet
Encyclopædia Britannica Guide to Black History
Events and People in Black History
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
Compiled by the University of Houston, this contains more than 40 slave narratives from the 17th to the 20th century.
Eyes of Glory
Explores the history of blacks in Newport, Rhode Island.
Eyewitness To History
Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming.
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The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
FOOTSTEPS
This website containis a magazine designed for young people, their parents, and other individuals interested in discovering the scope, substance, and many often unheralded facts of African American heritage.
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the most famous African American of the 19th Century.
Free The Slaves
Free the Slaves was established in 2000 as the American sister-organization of Anti- Slavery International (UK), the world's oldest and original human rights organization, founded in 1787. The educational packets cover contemporary slavery as well as one pack on historical slavery. They include project work, in-class exercises, illustrations, even games to help students understand slavery. You may download these packs free of charge.
Freedom
Freedom is part of the Understanding Slavery Initiative, a partnership of UK museums whose collections shed a unique light on our understanding of slavery.
The Freedom Schooner Amistad at Amistad America, Inc.
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The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
This is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers.
The Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Globe Fearon Educational Publishing
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Harlem, 1900–1940: An African-American Community
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad for Children
Site by a second grade class at Pocantico Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Harriet Tubman Resource Center on the African Diaspora
A digital library and repository as well as facilities for the digitalization of materials.
Heritage of Slavery in South Africa
This website is part of a larger project to acknowledge the contribution of slaves made to South Africa.
Historic Charleston Foundation
Historical Text Archive
A list of links from which you can access electronic texts, maps, photos, and documents.
History of the Abolitionist Movement
The Quakers were the first to question slavery from a moral point of view.
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.
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Ile en Ile
For those interested in the French Atlantic. It is devoted to francophone culture with links to other sites as well. In French.
Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Historical Society created this website in order to highlight some of the visual materials from their collection that deal with this facet of American history.
Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Media Database
Compiled by Dr. Jerome S. Handler.
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Juneteenth, USA
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.
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Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Cultural Centre
Located in Cairo, Egypt, founded and directed by Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's eldest surviving son, Dr. Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah, now has its own web space on the Pan-African Perspective web site. Look under the "What's happening in Pan-Africanism" section.
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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
This is a database containing the identity of all slave-owners in the British Caribbean at the time slavery ended. The records concern slave-owners, not the enslaved themselves.
Lifeline Expedition
The Lifeline Expedition began as a reconciliation journey linking the European and African nations along the Greenwich meridian line (zero longitude.)
London, Sugar & Slavery
This permanent exhibit at the Museum of London Docklands examines London's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The site includes an online interactive map of people and places keyed to various themes: black presence, enslavement, and resistance.
Mapping the African American Past
The Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) project, produced by a
team of researchers and specialists at Columbia University, offers a
marriage of African American history and geography in New York City.
Memories of Slavery
A database compiled by Professor Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff at the University of Trier, Germany that contains several hundred images from both Europe and Africa.
Merry Merryfield's Favorite Links
This website provides links to Global Education/African Awareness/Children as Survivors of War Resources
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Transatlantic Slavery: Against human dignity
This gallery was originated and has been generously supported by the Peter Moores Foundation. It examines transatlantic slavery and seeks to increase understanding of what has happened to people of African descent in the modern world.
The Museum of African Slavery
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is a virtual museum dedicated to the history of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic.
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National Association of African-American Studies
National Center for History in the Schools
National Park Service Cultural Resources
Negro Artist
This website promotes the work of black artists both nationally and internationally through a variety of ways including images of African American artists, slave narratives, colored soldiers, and African American art galleries and black art publications. This a very detailed and comprehensive website that gives links to the sites of black artists, African American art galleries and a host of others.
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.
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
College of William & Mary and Colonial Williamsburg
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.
The Origins of American Slavery
As part of an ongoing collaboration between the College Board and the Organization of American Historians, this article is part of "America on the World Stage," a series of essays -- co-published by AP Central and the OAH -- about the ties between American history and world history. Each piece offers suggestions for U.S. history teachers.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
This site has an extended essay on the abolition of the British slave trade, with live links to its biographies of the principal - and some minor - participants in the fight.
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The Port Royal Project
Port Royal on the island of Jamaica was one of the largest towns in the English colonies during the late 17th century. The importance of Port Royal and Jamaica to England was increasingly due to trade in slaves, sugar, and raw materials.
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.
Priscilla's Homecoming
Documents, images, and history tracing one girl's journey from Africa to America, and her descendant's return visit to Sierra Leone.
Priscilla's Homecoming
This is a one-hour documentary films in progress by Rice Coast Films, Inc. a non-profit organization in South Carolina dedicated to creating films that explore the remarkable culture that grew from our indelible link with the west coast of Africa.
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Roadmap to African American and Diversity Resources
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SCI-way--South Carolina's Information Highway Social Studies School Service
Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture
Access primary sources, manuscripts, photographs, music, and other documents about African-American history and culture.
The Abolition of the Slave Tradehttp://abolition.nypl.org/ on-line exhibit.
Scotland's Transatlantic Relations Project (STAR)
Set All Free
Provides information on the forthcoming bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and aims to remember the past and apply its lessons to tackle the legacies of Transatlantic Slavery and its modern day equivalent.
Slave-Studies.net
A portal for research and education
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
The most ambitious project of its kind, this a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. Once completed, this digital collection will comprise five million pages of documents selected by a renowned board of scholars and organized in four parts
Slavery and the Making of America
Timelines, resources, narratives, and lesson plans associated with the PBS television series.
South Carolina African-American History Online
South Carolina Council for African American Studies
The SCCAAS is a professional organization for persons interested in any aspect of African American instruction. It offers its members the opportunity to share in the development of ideas and programs with educators from the state, southeastern region and the nation.
South Carolina Historical Society
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi
The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South
SHADD - Studies in History of the African Diaspora-Documents
This is a publication of the York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland Project, Department of History, York University.
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Teaching about African Americans
Traces of The Trade
Describes the upcoming feature documentary about the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island, the largest slave-trading family in the United States
TransAfrica Forum
The organization serves as a major research, educational, and organizing institution for the African-American community offering constructive analyses of issues concerning U.S. policy as it affects Africa and the Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
This impressive new website on the slave trade is an enlarged and revised edition of the Cambridge 1998 CD-ROM dataset (that was clumsy to
use) and will be very useful for teaching and research... and its all free, folks!
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Underground Railroad Digital Classroom
The House Divided Project is a team effort led by professors, students and staff at Dickinson College that is devoted to finding new and creative ways for understanding the story of the coming of the American Civil War.
Since Summer 2006, the House Divided Project has hosted a series of professional development workshops on the Underground Railroad for K-12 educators. Part of the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) "Landmarks of American History & Culture" program series, these workshops have helped establish the foundation and inspiration for this digital classroom.
The United States Constitution
This site offers The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and a way to navigate through the U.S. Constitution.
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Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820
Created by art historians at Smith College in 2005, the goal of the Vistas project is to promote wider understanding of the visual culture of the Spanish Americas. The project covers a vast region and time period, running geographically from California to Chile, and temporally from the 16th century to the early 19th century. The centerpiece of the site is the gallery, with over 100 images arranged by time period. The 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s are the most populated sections.
Images range from a modern photo of Saqsawamen, which is a series of masonry zigzagging walls used as a fortress, palace, and temple from the mid-15th to early 16th century in Cuzco, Peru, to the Chicano Park murals in San Diego, California, begun in 1973. In between there are examples such as a portrait of Simon Bolivar in Lima, 1825, by Jose Gil de Castro, and a Mexican Chippendale Chair, built in the mid- to late-18th century, in the style of the English furniture maker Thomas Chippendale, using mahogany from the forests of Central or South
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Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House.
Virginia Black History Archives
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
This database documents the slave trade from Africa to the New World that took place over three centuries — between the 1500s and 1800s — and includes searchable information on nearly 35,000 trips and the names of 70,000 human cargo. The voluminous work includes data on more than 95 percent of all voyages that left ports from England — the country with the second-largest slave trade — and documents two-thirds of all slave trade voyages between 1514 and 1866.
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Web Pages Containing Black History Lesson Plans
The West Africa Council of South Carolina
Wisconsin Historical Society
The Wisconsin Historical Society has made available digitized versions of the entire run of "Freedom's Journal [pdf] ", which was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. There are 104 issues available here.
