Colonial North America and the United States
The Amistad Research
Center
An independent African American archive founded in 1966 to
document the American civil rights movement. Includes guides to the center's
manuscript, art, and media collections.
The Carter G. Woodson Institute
for African and Afro-American Studies
The University of Virginia houses
this center for interdisciplinary teaching and research in African and
African-American Studies.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Yale University houses this center dedicated to the investigation and dissemination
of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction.
The website includes bibliographies and lists scheduled events.
African American Resources on the Web - Iowa State University
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/eresourc/aa.html
African-American Studies - University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=131
African Timelines, Part III: African Slave Trade & European Imperialism
- Central Oregon Community College
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm
Historical Resources on the Net - University of North Florida History Club
http://www.unf.edu/groups/history/links.html
Internet Public Library: 18th Century History
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.02.65/
Primary Sources on the Internet - University of South Carolina
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/class/clis734/webguides/primsrce.htm
Slave Trade Guide - University of Florida
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/slave_trade_guide.htm
Sub-Saharan African History - University of Washington
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/africa.html
Teaching About Slavery - Teach-nology
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/subject_matter/social_studies/us_history/slavery/
Teaching Africa - The North Bay International Studies Institute
http://www.sonoma.edu/projects/nbisp/africa/aresources.html
American Slave Narratives: An On-Line Anthology (UVA)
North American Slave Narratives (William L. Andrews, UNC)
Selections from the WPA Slave Narratives
Slave Voices from Duke Special Collections
Excerpts from Slave Narratives (University of Houston)
Anti-Slavery Poems
Very interesting and useful selection of anti-slavery poems in English, mostly
shorter texts, with excellent scholarly notes and discussion.
A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, Consistently with the Interests of All Parties Concerned (London, 1828), By Moses Elias Levy. The full text, edited and annotated by Chris Monaco
African American Voices
Steven Mintz of the University of Houston has provided an extremely useful selection
from the most famous slave narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This site, which used to be known as 'Excerpts from Slave Narratives', has recently
moved to a new location at http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm
and has been updated at the same time, with new introductions to the texts.
North American Slave
Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
This important site "documents the individual and collective story of the African
American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries." It includes the full texts of almost 300 slave
narratives.
Antislavery Texts by Thomas Clarkson
Facsimilies of several of Thomas Clarkson's works, including his 1785 Essay
and his 1808 History
Thoughts Upon Slavery
The full text of John Wesley's Thoughts Upon Slavery, with an image of the title
page.
American Slave
Narratives: An Online Anthology
Site maintained by Bruce Fort, a
graduate student at the University of Virginia. Includes an annotated index to
slave narratives and links to related sites.
"'Been Here So Long': Selections from
the WPA American Slave Narratives."
Includes a selection of seventeen
interviews of former slaves conducted by members of the Federal Writers Project
of the Works Progress Administration; an introductory essay on the Narratives
and their place in the documentary and cultural movements of the 1930s, by Mark
Krasovic; three sets of lesson plans by Dick Parsons, a curriculum development
specialist at the New Deal Network; and a short guide to bibliographical and
online resources.
Born in Slavery:
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
U.S.
Library of Congress's searchable website of interviews and photographs of former
slaves generated during the Great Depression under the auspices of the Federal
Writers Project.
Black Abolitionism
Currently under construction (11/2003). Will eventuall include: several
hundred documents on anti-slavery rhetoric and scholarship on the
BlackAbolitionists.
Digital
History: African American Voices
Texts and other resources for middle
school, high school, and first-year college history teaching on the African
American experience. Compiled by Steve Mintz and Sara McNeil, University of
Houston.
Documenting the
American South: North American Slave Narratives
Searchable full text
narratives by former slaves from the collections of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill libraries.
Frederick Douglass Papers
Indiana and Purdue University's collection and publication of the writings
of the great nineteenth-century, African American, anti-slavery and human rights
activist Frederick Douglass.
Freedmen
and Southern Society Project
An extensive selection of primary documents
depicting the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants: liberated
slaves and defeated slaveholders, soldiers and civilians, common folk and the
elite, Northerners and Southerners.
Freedmens Bureau Online
Online
publication of documents (registers, reports, applications) from the
Reconstruction era Freedmens Bureau. This is a commercial site that does not
explicitly state its methodology, purpose, or sponsors.
Harriet Jacobs Papers
Pace University's project to produce a two-volume documentary edition of
papers by and about the 19th-century African-American author, abolitionist, and
reformer Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), to be published by the University of North
Carolina Press.
History Now:
Looking at Slavery: Going to the Sources
A state-by-state set of primary
sources relating to the U.S. history of slavery.
Memories
of Slavery
A database of African and European texts and images
concerning the transatlantic slave system. Sponsored by Universität Trier
(Germany) and Université d'Abomey-Calavi (Benin).
Race and Slavery
Petitions Project
Prof. Loren Schweninger's collection of tens of
thousands of petitions to southern state legislatures for redress of grievances,
1770-1865.
St. Louis Missouri
Circuit Court Historical Records Project
280 legal documents filed
between 1814 and 1860 on behalf of slaves suing for their freedom. Includes
images of original handwritten documents.
Samuel J. May
Anti-Slavery Collection
Cornell University's collection of anti-slavery
pamphlets. Searchable by keyword.
Slavery and
Emancipation in Washington, D.C. Bibliography
Compiled by Matthew
Gilmore. A starting place for research.
Slaves and the
Courts, 1740-1860, American Memory Project
A Library of Congress
collection of over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and
1889) concerning legal suits involving slaves. The documents comprise an
assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of
cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of
historical importance.
Thomas Jefferson
Papers
Approximately eighty-three thousand images from the papers of
Thomas Jefferson, including correspondence, commonplace books, account books,
and manuscript volumes. These documents shed light on the history of Jefferson's
thoughts on politics, slavery, religion, and other subjects; his decades-long
political partnership with James Madison; and his friendships with John and
Abigail Adams, William Short, and others.
Three African Americans
Speak of Religion in Eighteenth-Century New England
Electronic version
of three texts from colonial Massachusetts archives, originally printed in the
William and Mary Quarterly April 1999.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and
American Culture
Excellent site covering many sides to Stowe's
multimedia assault on slavery. Bridges academic and public history.
Valley of the
Shadow: The Civil War in Two Communities
Includes many kinds of sources
on slavery in the Shenandoah Valley.
Virginia
Runaways: A Project of the Virginia Center for Digital History
One of
the best web-based historical databases available on runaway slaves. Developed
and maintained by Tom Costa, Professor of history at the University of
Virginia's College at Wise.
Voices from the Days of Slavery:
Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory project, featuring audio recordings
made of people who had experienced slavery first-hand, recorded between 1932
and 1975.
Africans in America
Maintained by PBS, an American broadcaster, this site is an excellent introduction
to the history of slavery in the United States.
Black Loyalist Heritage
Society
A Canadian site exploring the history of the 'Black Loyalists': Africans and
slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolution. Includes detailed
archaeological information about the Loyalist colonies in Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
Images
of African-American Slavery and Freedom
A large collection of slavery-related images from the Library of Congress
North American Slave
Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
This important site "documents the individual and collective story of the African
American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries." It includes the full texts of almost 300 slave
narratives.
Slavery in Mexico
A short but useful introduction to the history of slavery in Mexico.
Slavery in the North
A text-heavy, but very informative site about the history of slavery in the
northern states of the United States.
The 1817
diaries of the Quaker Merchant, John Adamson
A Quaker abolitionist's eyewitness book on slavery and travel in the USA between
the war of independence and the civil war. This is mostly a book advert but
contains some useful information.
Twentieth Century African American Writers
Homepage of a forthcoming encyclopdedia edited by Dr. Wilfred Samuels at the
University of Utah. Although focusing on the twentieth century, it will have
much to say about writing produced during - and about - the years of slavery.
Virginia Runaways
Project
A digital database of runaway and captured slave and servant advertisements
from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. Part of 'Virtual Jamestown'.
Public History: Media, Museums and Sites
Africans in America
Site devoted to the Public Broadcasting Service series about the history of
Africans in America from colonial times to the Civil War.
The
Amistad Case: Documents and Teaching Activities
The National
Archives and Records Administration presents documents related to the circuit
court and Supreme Court cases involving the Amistad and offers
suggestions for teaching activities that are correlated to the National
Standards for History and the National Standards for Civics and Government. The
teaching activities encourage educators and students to analyze the documents
and draw conclusions about slavery, abolition, and the United States legal
system.
The Amistad Case:
"Outright plagiarism" or "Who owns history?"
Summary of the legal battle
between novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud and Dreamworks SKG, producer of the Steven
Spielberg film, Amistad.
Dunkerhook: Slave
Community?
An article on the history of an African-American community in
New Jersey by Alglen Lutins, an archeologist.
Exploring Amistad: Race and the
Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America
This site explores
the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how history is made of it. Includes a
narrative and timeline of the revolt, teaching suggestions, and a digital
archive of nineteenth century documents concerning the event. Funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Flight to
Freedom
A computer simulation in which the player takes on the persona
of a slave escaping from slavery, attempting to make it to the northern U.S. or
Canada with as many family members as possible.
Key West African
Memorial Committee
A public history site devoted to recovering the
memory of the African Cemetery on Higgs Beach, Key West, Florida and the
transatlantic slave trade.
Lest We Forget:
The Triumph Over Slavery
Created by the Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture, The New York Public Library, in conjunction with the UNESCO Slave
Route Project to mark the United Nations General Assembly's resolution
proclaiming 2004 as the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against
Slavery and Its Abolition. A web exhibit (modeled on a traveling exhibit)
featuring segments on Africa, the transatlantic slave trade, slave labor and
slave systems, the struggle against slavery and its abolition, family life and
social development, religion, language, literacy and education, and expressive
culture.
Unchained
Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Companion website to HBO's
2003 documentary on U.S. slave narratives.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and
American Culture
Excellent site covering many sides to Stowe's
multimedia assault on slavery. Bridges academic and public history.
The Underground Railroad
Sponsored by the National Park Service, this site lists historic places,
educational materials, programs, parks, and links to other internet sources on
the Underground Railroad.
United States National Slavery
Museum
A project to create a national slavery museum in Virginia. Founded by Virginia
Governor L. Douglas Wilder.
Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/mfp.html
The first online edition of a book by a university press, this guide was prepared
by the University of Virginia and its Library's Electronic Text Center and Information
Technology & Communication Departments. This electronic edition historical
photographs and images of key manuscripts that are searchable in full text.
Amistad Research Center
http://www.tulane.edu/~amistad/
Tilton Hall-Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
Reference: 504/862-3222
Voice: 504/865-5535
FAX: 504/865-5580
Internet: amistad@tulane.edu
The Amistad Research Center is one of the nation's premier minority repositories. Named after a famed revolt by Africans on La Amistad in 1839 and landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, the Amistad was organized by the Race Relations Department of Fisk University and the American Missionary Association in 1966. The Center emerged as the first institution created to document the civil rights movement. With more than 10,000,000 documents, the Amistad today is acknowledged as the nation's largest independent African-American archives, as well as a leader in automation and advanced techniques. The Center also features extensive collection on Africa, other minorities, and the gay rights movement. It has oral history and video collections along with a specialized library, traveling exhibits, publications, and significant African and African-American art holdings. Now, conveniently housed on the campus of Tulane University, the Amistad Research Center is free and open to scholars, the public, and tours.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual
Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
This site at the University of Virginia contains a carefully-documented
collection of images regarding slavery, many of them contemporary to slave times.
The images include illustrations, maps, portraits, handbills, and a few photographs,
categorized and also keyword-searchable.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
This Library of Congress site contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts
of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives
were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works
Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews
with Former Slaves.
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/
Also from the Library of Congress, this site complements the Born in Slavery site by offering 26 taped interviews with former slaves, in addition to transcripts of these interviews. Audio is in RealAudio or MP3 format.
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of
the Americas
http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/
From the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, this online exhibit examines
the transatlantic slave trade from a maritime perspective.
Chronology on the History of Slavery, 1619 to 1789
http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
Researched and compiled by Eddie Becker, this site arose from his independent
research at theSmithsonian Institution's Holt House, the oldest building
in Washington, DC. It includes comprehensive entries from archival and
secondary source documents, and provides links to some of these sources in full-text.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
http://www.yale.edu/glc/
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition,
a part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, is dedicated to
the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of
the Atlantic slave system and its destruction.
Guide to African American Genealogical Research in New Orleans and
Louisiana
http://nutrias.org/~nopl/info/aarcinfo/guide.htm
From the African American Research Center (AARC) at the New Orleans Public Library.
Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library, Duke University.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/
"Third Person, First Person" Web site is based on the catalog of an exhibit
at Perkins Library, Duke University. Descriptions are included for all
items in the collection. Scanned images of items also appear, except for
those items that were too large or too fragile to scan. All of the items
in this online exhibit are available to researchers visiting the Rare Book Manuscript
and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
Slave Era Insurance Registry
http://www.insurance.ca.gov/SEIR/main.htm
The California Department of Insurance presents the Slave Era Insurance Registry
which is dedicated to identifying insurance companies who issued and benefited
from policies regarding slavery. The site lists slaves by first name only which
makes it difficult for those interested in slave genealogy. For those who are
looking for evidence regarding profiteering off of the slave trade, however,
this site is invaluable. The report is available in both HTML and PDF format.
Slavery From Islamic and Christian Perspectives (book)
http://al-islam.org/slavery/index.htm
Published by: Vancouver Islamic Educational Foundation
British Columbia - Canada
ISBN 0-920675-07-7
"By the nineteenth century, there was another change of the people who took the leading role in exploiting Africa. The European countries themselves were not as active in the slave-trade, but instead Europeans who had settled in Brazil, Cuba and North America were the ones who organised a large part of the trade. The Americans had recently gained their independence from Britain, and it was the new nation of the United States of America which played the biggest part in the last fifty years of the Atlantic slave-trade, taking away slaves at a greater rate than ever before."
Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/
The Library of Congress' Memory Project offers a series of pamphlets and other
documents pertaining to cases regarding slavery in the U.S. from 1740-1860.
The extensive collection includes reports of trials and cases as well as proceedings
regarding slavery. Significant historical players dealing with slavery such
as John Calhoun, Dred Scott, and many others are represented. Users can search
by keyword or browse by subject.
USF Africana Heritage Project
http://www.africanaheritage.com
This site from the University of South Florida is dedicated to "rediscovering
the names and lives of former slaves, freedpersons and their descendants." The
project is aimed at African-Americans researching their family histories. To
that end, the site contains a searchable records database of transcriptions
from documents ranging from voter registration, to family Bibles, to cemetery
records, to bills of sale and more. The project also links to many other African-American
genealogy sites.
The W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/
Founded in 1975, the Institute is the nation's oldest research center dedicated
to the study of African American history.
Campaign to Rescue and Restore
Victims of Human Trafficking
U.S. government division, under Health and
Human Services. Aimed at identifying and rescuing victims of human trafficking
in the United States, with factsheets in English, Polish, Russian, Spanish and
"Traditional" Chinese. Includes "Trafficking Information and Referral Hotline,"
1.888.3737.888. Established in conformity with U.S. Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA).
Free the Slaves
A non-profit
organization working to end slavery world-wide. Includes Resources for teachers.
Anti-Slavery International
An organization devoted to the abolition of contemporary forms of slavery, including
debt bondage, false adoption (of children to work as domestic servants), servitude
imposed by serfdom or caste, and domestic slavery.
Lifelife Expedition
"The Lifeline Expedition is a response to the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade, with Europeans, Africans and Africans of the Diaspora journeying together.
A distinctive feature has been that of Europeans walking in yokes and chains
as a symbolic sign of apology."
CAST: The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Web address: http://www.trafficked-women.org/
Email: cast@trafficked-women.org
Address: Little Tokyo Service Center
231 E. 3rd St., Suite G104
Los Angeles, California 90013
Notes: Founded in 1998, CAST is a network of not-for profit organizations, service
providers and grassroots advocacy groups to highlight the issue of modern day
slavery. CAST’s mission is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced
labor and slavery-like practices and to work towards ending all instances of
such human right violations.
CASMAS: Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan Web Web Address: http://members.aol.com/casmasalc
Email: CASMASALC@AOL.COM
Address: CASMAS
P. O. Box 3293
New York, NY 10027
Tel: (212) 774-4287
Notes: CASMAS is a human rights, abolitionist movement started by activists
from Mauritania, Sudan, and the United States. The mission of CASMAS is to bring
together abolitionists/human rights groups from Mauritania, South Sudan and
North America to collectively fight for the eradication of institutionalized
and chattel slavery and other forms of human rights violations in Africa, especially
in Mauritania and Sudan.
CATW: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Web Address: http://www.catwinternational.org/
Email: info@catwinternational.org
Address: CATW has many regional and National Offices. All office locations and
contact information is available on the web-site of CATW.
Notes: CATW is a non-governmental organization that promotes women's human rights.
It works internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms, especially
prostitution and trafficking in women and children, in particularly girls. CATW
is composed of regional networks and of affiliated individuals and groups and
serves as an umbrella that coordinates and takes direction from its them to
work against sexual exploitation and in support of women's human rights.
Free the Slaves
Web Address: http://www.freetheslaves.net/
Email: info@freetheslaves.net.net
Address: 1326 14th St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 1.866.324.FREE; 202.588.1865
Fax: 202.588.1514
Notes: Free the Slaves has been founded by Americans who do not want to live
in a world with slavery and pledges to use every donated dollar in the way that
will end slavery the fastest. Contributions to Free the Slaves fund grassroots
organizations working to liberate and rehabilitate slaves, educate policymakers
about slavery, and raise awareness about modern slavery through the media and
through public events, fund research to develop effective solutions to slavery,
and build global partnerships to address slavery from all sides.
GAATW: Global Alliance against Traffic in Women
Web address: http://www.thai.net/gaatw/
Email Address: gaatw@mozart.inet.co.th
Address: the International Coordination Office
P.O. Box 36, Bangkok Noi Office,
Bangkok 10700, Thailand
Telephone: (662) 864-1427
Fax: (662) 864-1637
Notes: The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) was formed in 1994
at the International Workshop on Migration and Traffic in Women held in Chiang
Mai, Thailand. It is a global network of organizations and individuals and aims
to ensure that the human rights of trafficked persons are respected and protected
by authorities and agencies. The organization also aims to empower women at
the grassroots level.
Global March Against Child Labour
Web Address: http://www.globalmarch.org/
Email: yatra@del2.vsnl.net.in
Address: Global March Against Child Labour
L-6, Kalkaji, New Delhi - 19, India.
Tel : 91-11-26224899, 26475481.
Fax : 91-11-26236818
Notes: Global March Against Child Labour is a movement borne out of hope and
the need felt by thousands of people across the globe - the desire to set children
free from servitude. Global March movement began with a worldwide march when
thousands of people marched together to jointly put forth the message against
child labour.
Human Rights Internet
Web Address: http://www.hri.ca/welcome.asp
Email:hri@hri.ca
Address: Human Rights Internet
8 York Street, Suite 302
Ottawa, Ontario K1 N 5S6
Canada
Telephone: (1-613) 789-7407
Fax: (1-613) 789-7414
Notes: HRI was founded in 1976 to provide and exchange information within the
human rights community worldwide. HRI has established communication with more
than 5,000 organizations and individuals working for the advancement of human
rights. HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations.
It also works to educate governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials
on human rights issues and the role of civil society.
iAbolish, The Anti-Slavery portal
Web Address: http://www.iabolish.com
Email: info@iabolish.com
Address: 198 Tremont St., #421
Boston, MA 02116
Telephone (toll free): 1-800-884-0719
Notes: iAbolish is a project of the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), a grassroots
organization founded in 1993 to combat slavery around the world. AASG has broken
a virtual media blackout on slavery and helped free over 45,000 slaves.
IHRLG: International Human Rights Law Group
Web Address: http://www.hrlawgroup.org
Email Address: HumanRights@hrlawgroup.org
Address: International Human Rights Law Group
1200 18th Street NW, Suite 602
Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: 202- 822-4600
Fax: 202-822-4606
Notes: The International Human Rights Law Group comprises human rights activists
and legal professionals from over 20 countries engaged in advocacy, strategic
human rights lawyering and training around the world. IHRLG seeks to empower
local advocates to expand the scope of human rights protections and build human
rights standards and procedures at the national, regional, and international
levels. The group has launched the "Initiative against Trafficking in Persons"
to assist advocates and NGOs in building advocacy, legal literacy, and case
monitoring skills.
ILO: International Labor Organization
Web address: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/index.htm
Email: ilo@ilo.org
Address: 4, route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 22
Switzerland
Tel: +41.22.799.6111
Fax: +41.22.798.8685
Notes: The International Labor Organization is the UN specialized agency which
seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and
labor rights. The ILO formulates international labor standards in the form of
Conventions and Recommendations setting minimum standards of basic labor rights:
freedom of association, the right to organize, collective bargaining, abolition
of forced labor, equality of opportunity and treatment, and other standards
regulating conditions across the entire spectrum of work related issues.
IOM: International Organization for Migration
Web Address: http://www.iom.int
Email: info@iom.int
Address: 17, Route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 19 - Switzerland
Tel: +41/22/717 9111
Fax: +41/22/798 6150
Notes: IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits
migrants and society. As the leading international organization for migration,
IOM acts with its partners in the international community to assist in meeting
the growing operational challenges of migration management, advance understanding
of migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration,
and uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants.
NSWP: Network of Sex Work Projects
Web address : http://www.nswp.org/
Email: secretariat@nswp.org
Address: P.O. Box 13914
Mowbray 7705
Rep. of South Africa
Tel: +27 21 448 2883
Fax: +27 21 448 4947
Notes: The Network of Sex Work Projects was formed in 1991 and consists of sex
workers and organizations which provide services to sex workers in over 40 countries.
NSWP aims to provide practical information and opportunities for information
sharing among organizations and projects which provide services to men, women,
and transsexuals who work in the sex industry. They advocate policies and action
at the regional and global level to further the human rights of sex workers
such as the right to health and a safe working environment free from abuse,
violence and discrimination. NSWP believes the anti-sex work and anti-trafficking
agenda is a threat to sex workers’ health and human rights.
Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery:
Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, United Nations
Web address: http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
Email: webadmin.hchr@unog.ch
Address: OHCHR-UNOG
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone: (41-22) 917- 9000
Fax: (41-22) 917- 9016
Notes: The fund was established by the General assembly in 1991. The purpose
of the fund is to assist non-governmental organizations dealing with contemporary
forms of slavery and to provide, through the established channels of assistance,
humanitarian, legal and financial aid to individual victims of such violations.
UN Links
Human Rights
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR): http://www.unhchr.ch/
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and
proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the full text of which
appears in the following pages:
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/1.shtml
Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Institutions
and Practices
Slavery Convention , signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926.
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/28.shtml
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions
and Practices Similar to Slavery, adopted at Geneva on 7 September 1956.
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/30.shtml
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
and Members of Their Families , adopted by General Assembly resolution 45/158
of 18 December 1990.
http://193.194.138.190/html/menu3/b/m_mwctoc.htm
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation
of the Prostitution of Others, approved by General Assembly on 2 December 1949
and entered into force in 1951.
http://www.hri.ca/uninfo/treaties/33.shtml
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions
and Practices Similar to Slavery, entered into force April 30, 1957.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/f3scas.htm
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational
Organized Crime, (2001).
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/trafficking.html
Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing
the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Crime (2001).
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/smuggling.html
ILO Conventions: All Convention texts from C1 in 1919 to C184 in 2001.
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/arab/docs/convdisp1.htm
Rights of the Child
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted by the General Assembly
of the United Nations on 20 November 1989.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/fulltext.htm
Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child:
1) Optional protocol on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography,
entered into force on 18 January 2002.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/annex2.htm
2) Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, entered
into force on 12 February 2002.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/annex1.htm
Women’s Rights
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,
entered into force 1981.
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/cedaw.htm
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, entered into force 22 December 2000.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/opt_cedaw.htm
United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM):
http://www.unifem.org/
Womenwatch: UN Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
The United Nations Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/index.html
Commission on the Status of Women
http://www.un.org/Conferences/Women/PubInfo/Status/Scrn5.htm
United States Information Agency Resources to Protect Women's Human Rights
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/global/traffic
AARDOC: African
American Religion: A Documentary History Project
An effort to produce a
comprehensive history of African-American religion, from the earliest
African-European encounters along the west coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth
century to the present day, to be published by University of Chicago Press.
Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on
the African Diaspora
Paul Lovejoy, York University, Toronto. A
tremendous site with a wealth of information, especially for academics,
including conferences and news.
Institute for the Study
of Slavery
University of Nottingham's research center devoted to slavery
studies.
Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa,
the African
Site includes a critical biography, map of Equiano's
travels, bibliography, excerpts, portraits and related sources. Created and
maintained by Brycchan Carey, lecturer in English at Kingston University in
Surrey, England.
Yekrik! Yekrak!
An idiosyncratic site maintained by Dominique Chathuant devoted to the abolition
of slavery in the Francophone world. The site's gateway gives access to English
and French versions. Accessing the site will notify the webmaster of your visit
and record your e-mail address ONLY if you approve but my experience is that
this feature is not abused. Ms Chathuant is interested in monitoring the international
interest in the site and making contact with interested parties.
The Atlantic Slave Trade
and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Jerome S. Handler and
Michael L. Tuite, Jr. present hundreds of images of the Atlantic slave trade in
a searchable database.
Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus
Vassa, the African
Created and maintained by Brycchan Carey, contains a
summary of up-to-date scholarship on Equiano.
H-Slavery Listserv
Backlogs
These are the records of previous conversations by the
participants in the H-Slavery Listserv. Searchable by keyword and accessible by
author, subject and date.
L'Esclavage au
Cinema: Quelques films
Brief reviews of films that deal with slavery,
culled from the H-Slavery listserv, translated into French. Also includes
recommended novels dealing with slavery.
Records of
Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843
Raw
data and documentation of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas
from 1817-1843, including: ship's port of arrival, date of arrival, type of
vessel, tonnage, master's name, number of guns, number of crew, national flag,
number of slaves, port of departure, number of days of voyage, and mortality.
Based on Philip Curtin and Herbert Klein's data sets.
Slavery and
Abolition
Website for the journal Slavery and Abolition,
including table of contents of current and previous issues.
Slavery and Antislavery: A
Bibliography of Recent Works in English
Compiled by Steven Mintz.
Slavery in the Francophone World
Doris Kadish's website includes texts, images, and a section devoted to the
Atlantic revolutionary experience of the 1790s.
Studies in the World History of Slavery,
Abolition and Emancipation
An electronic journal devoted to the worldwide study of slavery. Published "occasionally"
since 1996. Links to bibliographies, document collections, museums, courses.
A chronology
of slavery
A detailed and scholarly chronology of slavery and abolition from the sixteenth
to the nineteenth centuries. If, like me, you have sound on your PC you will
get an interesting sound file as well.
The Gilder Lehrman
Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
At Yale University in the US, this academic centre is "dedicated to the investigation
and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave
system and its destruction."
The history of slavery
A really comprehensive set of links on slavery and abolition
Slavery and Abolition
Slavery and Abolition is the most important academic journal in the field.
Black and Asian History Map
This site, run by Channel 4, is a superb resource for anyone interested in the
history of the black and Asian presence in the United Kingdom, from the earliest
times to the present day.
Bristol and Slavery
Home page of a website that explores Bristol's involvement in the Transatlantic
Slave Trade and the impact on modern Bristol. A very useful site.
British Anti-slavery
Written by the historian John Oldfield, and presented by the BBC, this is a
brief but very useful introduction to the history of the British anti-slavery
movement.
PORT, the Maritime Information
Gateway
Hosted by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, this fully searchable site
provides a wealth of resources for the slave trade and for maritime history
more generally.
Slaves' Stories
"The year is 1780. In this year European traders will take thousands of Africans
into slavery. This website follows four of those people..." This is an excellent
website for children, hosted by the Liverpool Museums Service.
Transatlantic Slavery, Merseyside Maritime Museum
Information on the slavery exhibits at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
The Wilberforce House Museum
William Wilberforce's house in Hull is open to the public as a museum of his
life and the campaign against slavery.
www.blackpresence.co.uk
The history pages at www.blackpresence.co.uk offer a useful introduction for
the the general reader.
Public History: Media, Museums and Sites
Anneaux de la Memoire
French language website dedicated to five centuries of history connecting
Europe, Africa and the Americas, with particular reference to the slave trade,
slavery and their influence on the present. Sited in Nantes, France.
Kura Hulanda
Webpage to the
museum of slavery on Curacao, formerly a Dutch sugar colony.
The Museum
of African Slavery
A "virtual museum" maintained by Pier M. Larson, an
assistant Prof. of History at Pennsylvania State University, this site presently
contains mostly text.
Bristol and the
Slave Trade
Links to a variety of sites dealing with the British slave
trade. Maintained by actor Jeremy McNeill.
Slave Trade Simulation
A
demographic simulation summarizing available information on slave trade and
combining it with what is known of normal human patterns of birth, death, and
migration. Users may vary the demographic conditions and see their implications.
Heritage of
Slavery in South Africa
A project of Iziko Museums, a national museum
group that manages fifteen museum sites in and around Cape Town, including the
former VOC Slave Lodge and Groot Constantia Estate, a wine estate that made
extensive use of slave labour.
Juneteenth.com
A
commercial site promoting the celebration of the abolition of slavery in the
United States.
Captive
Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
A
NEH-funded project of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia, this site
includes text and a few images from the transatlantic slave trade. A more
extensive image bank requires users to certify their use as "personal" or
"commercial" before viewing the images. "Educational" is not listed as an
option.
http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/
This site, created by Mogamat G Kamedien in conjunction with the commemoration
of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Dutch East India Company, gives
information about the Cape Slave Code of 1754, Social conditions of slaves at
the cape, a Timeline, and other related information about slavery in colonial
South Africa.
The site will contain more than 1000 images relating to the slave trade, focusing on the Triangular trade, Abolition and the impact of the trade on Liverpool.
Trade & Empire
(National Maritime Museum)
Understanding
slavery
(Discovery Channel: school)
From
slavery to freedom
(Slavery Abolition Year: UNESCO)
The
Story of Africa
(BBC radio series)
Bristol and the
Slave Trade
(The Hotwell Press)
Slaves’ stories
(National Museums Liverpool)
British History
1700-1930:
The slave trade
(Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia)
Voices From The Days of Slavery
(The Library of Congress)
The African
American Odyssey
(The Library of Congress)
Virtual Visit of Gorée Island
(UNESCO)
The
Underground Railroad
(National Geographic)
Bristol and Transatlantic slavery(PortCities Bristol)
The slave
trade
(PortCities Liverpool)
Search
Station: Abolition
(National Maritime Museum)
The African
American Odyssey
(The Library of Congress)
IAbolish
(American Anti-Slavery Group)
Africana – Gateway to the Black world(online magazine)
Lesson plans and learning exchange. ContemporaryAfrican community and black interest.
Promotes knowledge of black history and experience
The slave
trade
(PortCities Liverpool)