The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University contains a wide array of digital materials, many of them relating to slavery. The site includes teaching plans and streaming video presentations; an excellent teaching resource.
A collection of a thousand digital images related to the slave trade and slavery, assembled by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. Sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library.
A Library of Congress guide for studying black history and culture. Topics include colonization and Liberia, abolitionists and slavery, western migration and homesteading, and ex-slave narratives.
Massive database on over 100,000 African American slaves in Louisiana during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Website produced by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, the Center for the Public Domain, and University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
Located at Tulane University and named in honor of the slave ship revolt, the Center is one of the largest research centers in African American history.
Founded in 1839, Anti-slavery International is one of the oldest human rights organizations. Its annual reviews and reports provide authoritative information on contemporary slavery issues. An excellent website with up-to-date information.
Website sponsored by the Black Loyalists Society in Birchtown, Nova Scotia, jointly with Canada's Digital Collections. Provides the history of former American slaves re-settled by the British army in Canada after the American Revolution. Documents section of the site contains digitized accounts, letters, and official statements.
International educational site on the transatlantic slave trade, with numerous school lesson plans. Co-sponsored by UNESCO's Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project and the British Council.
University committee appointed in 2003 at Brown University to investigate institutional involvement in the early slave trade. Site contains significant resources, including Ricardo Howell's special report on Brown & slavery and bibliography.
A 2001 report by Earth Rights International to the International Labour Organization on the status of forced labor in Burma, including interviews with forced laborers.
Online exhibit concerning the abolitionist movement in Indiana, organized by Gwendolyn Crenshaw and the Indiana Historical Bureau. An excellent exhibit with extensive primary documentation.
A digital project in the history of Caribbean slavery, produced by the Barbados Museum and Historical Society and sponsored by UNESCO. Covers a range of document types; provides catalog entries, but not the digital versions of the documents.
This site provides documents and images for learning about "fugitive from labor" cases and black soldiers in the Civil War. The site includes Civil War photos by Mathew Brady and letters, telegrams, and photos illustrating factors that affected the Civil War.
Digitized texts of early twentieth-century scholarship on slavery; provided free of charge by a commercial company, Dinsmore Documentation. Includes selections from Journal of Negro History.
A two-portal website, with a French-language portion for the Comite contre l'Esclavage Moderne and a multilingual site on Victims of Trafficking. Sponsored by the Daphne Program of the European Commission. The Comite site has up-to-date news on trafficking; the second site area provides information on NGOs working on issues of trafficking.
A US-based NGO committed to ending human trafficking and modern day slavery by advancing the rule of law and equity for women and children in South Asia.
Focuses on enslaved Africans and their descendants living in the Chesapeake region of Virginia during the colonial and antebellum periods. The site provides analyses of artifacts, deposits, and architectural plans from different sites, including Monticello, Mount Vernon, Stratford Hall, and Williamsburg.
This site features maps, documents, and images for learning about the Lewis and Clark expedition, the growth of regionalism, the Amistad case, Lincoln's "spot resolutions," the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the petition of Amelia Bloomer regarding suffrage in the West, migration north to Alaska and the Sioux Treaty of 1868.
Site introducing issues relating to contemporary slavery, slave-like conditions, and sexual slavery; produced and maintained at Brandeis University; includes materials in Arabic.
Section of the Holocaust Encyclopedia on forced labor during the World War II era, including streaming video interviews with survivors and links to further materials on the subject.
Library of Congress site. Presents the papers of the 19th-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
University of Maryland site accompanying its 30 year-old and pioneering documentation publishing project on emancipation and its social aftermath. Site contains many sample digital documents.
Informational website maintained by the International Organisation for Migration, regarding administration of the German Forced Labour Compensation Programme established by German law in 2000 for compensation of slave labor. Site in English, French, German, and Spanish, with activity updates.
Second issue of History Now (December 2004), an online history journal sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center; devoted to primary documents of slavery; a good teaching resource.
A collection of 15 documents and a brief resource guide to books and online resources, created by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition with the assistance and cooperation of Jean Fagin Yellin.
The Harriet Wilson Project seeks to raise awareness of Harriet Wilson and her literary work, and to educate the public on her contribution to American history and literature.
A 2004 report from the Human Rights Center at University of California - Berkeley and the Free the Slaves organization, concerning contemporary trafficking and slavery in the United States.
The H-Slavery discussion list seeks to promote interaction and exchange among scholars engaged in research on slavery, the slave trade, abolition, and emancipation.
Essay by William Ramsey, assistant professor of history at University of Idaho, on the appearance of pro-slavery literature on campus in December 2004.
An electronic presentation developed by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition.
A set of letters written from Liberia during 1834-1835 and 1857-1866 by ex-slaves sponsored by the American Colonization Society. Project of the Electronic Text Center at University of Virginia.
Illinois-based society dedicated to making available information on abolitionist Owen Lovejoy (brother to Elijah Lovejoy). Site includes some digitized speeches, sermons, and essays.
Permanant exhibition and website at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool (UK) on the transatlantic slave trade, including audio file readings of Olaudah Equiano and others.
Lesson plan on mid-nineteenth-century antislavery, with digital documents for study; appropriate for secondary students. Produced by Old Sturbridge Village.
Located at University of North Carolina at Greensboro and directed by Loren Schweninger, the Project has collected approximately 3,000 legislative petitions, 15,500 county court petitions, and over 100,000 pages of documentary evidence relating to slavery. The database is in an easy-to-access format and recommended for research purposes.
Discusses the international sex trafficking industry, including the women and girls who work as entertainment girls, hospitality girls, prostitutes, and massage girls.
A Smithsonian Institution website based on the book 'Remembering Slavery.' It features RealAudio sound files of the voices of former slaves, recorded in the early twentieth century.
Digital home of one of the richest collections of antislavery materials,
originally gathered by abolitionist Samuel J. May and donated to Cornell University.
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An international conference on New World slavery and its contemporary legacies, in June 2005. Hosted by the History Department of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy.
Website accompanying the PBS series 'Slavery in America'. Contains extensive literature and teaching resources; note the 'Roads to Freedom' multimedia section on means by which slaves gained freedom.
Guide to online materials relating to slavery; online images and sound file section especially useful; created and maintained at the Library of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Website accompanying Loren Schweninger's 'The Southern Debate Over Slavery' (University of Illinois Press); provides electronic versions of antebellum slavery petitions to legislatures of southern states.
A multimedia archive of Uncle Tom's Cabin and cultural reactions and interpretations in the United States. An excellent teaching resource. Located at University of Virginia.
UNESCO site containing information on the 2004 International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition. Contains links to the Slave Routes project and Slave Trade Archives project.
Graduate studies group in 'Slavery, Serfdom and Forced Labor: Forms of Unfree Life and Labour from Antiquity to the 20th Century.' German-language site, with some English.
Library of Congress site featuring audio recordings made of people who experienced slavery first-hand, providing a unique opportunity to listen to them describe their lives in their own voices. These interviews conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable ex-slaves, people born between 1823 and the early 1860s.
An extensive French-language site maintained by the Bibliotheque Nationale, including over 900 books and large collections of journals, maps and photographs. Contains significant materials on slavery and the slave trade.
Wikipedia is a free online popular encyclopedia. The 'Slavery' article is useful and contains many links to other sources of information on the Internet.
A Los Angeles-based Korean American organization that sponsors an educational and legal project to obtain justice for Korean women forced into prostitution by Japanese military forces during World War II.