ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY
The Understanding Slavery Initiative (USI) is a learning project from the UK which supports the teaching and learning of transatlantic slavery and its legacies using museum and heritage collections.
THE SLAVERY MUSEUM
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY
The International Slavery Museum is the only museum of its kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery as well as being an international hub for resources on human rights issues.
SLAVE TRADE DATABASE
UNDERSTANDING SLAVERY
SLAVE TRADE DATABASE
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
THE SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT
SLAVE TRADE DATABASE
IIn this TED ED animated video Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy.
COWRIE SHELLS & SLAVERY
THE SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT
THE SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT
Professor Fritz Umbach of John Jay College talks a little history behind the movie Adanggaman (2000). Umbach presents the role and power of African elites in the Atlantic slave trade.
THE SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT
THE SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT
THE SLAVE WRECKS PROJECT
The Slave Wrecks Project uses remains and archaeology of slave ships to advance global scholarly and public understanding of the various vectors of the slave trade from Africa (Atlantic, Indian Ocean) that have played a foundational role in shaping global history.
TRACES OF THE TRADE
ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
THE ABOLITION PROJECT
In the documentary Traces of the Trade (2008) Producer/Director Katrina Browne tells the story of her forefathers, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Given the stereotype that the Southerners were solely responsible for slavery, viewers learn how Northerners like the Browne family were intimately involved in the slave trade.
THE ABOLITION PROJECT
ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
THE ABOLITION PROJECT
This site looks at the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Thomas Clarkson and his fellow abolitionists who fought for emancipation of enslaved Africans in the British colonies.
ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
Through essays, books, articles, maps, and illustrations this site shows how the story of the eradication of the international slave trade to the Americas was not straightforward. It did not happen overnight because laws were passed. It was a long, arduous, and tortuous process that spanned almost nine decades.