1. African background

• Story of Africa - the continent from an African perspective from the BBC.
• Africa A relevant history of Africa and Sierra Leone traces early colonial settlement, and attempts to stop the illegal coastal slave trade. From the site of the Amistad Museum ship
• History of the UK Anti-Slavery society For the full 15 age history, see the PDF download of Anti-Slavery International.
• Slavery part of the Story of Africa site this attempts to look at the nineteenth century in Africa from an African as well as European perspective. Sections include:

The Roots of Slavery The East African Slave Trade The Atlantic Slave Trade African Resistance The Resettlement Of Freed Slaves Remarkable Facts Further Reading

African Slave Owners Africa's Losses The Journey The End Of Slavery Forces For Change Timeline Useful Links

• From excellent Africa Online site. Click on theto go the site....

ETHNOGRAPHY DEMOGRAPHY LANGUAGES RELIGION CULTURAL

REGIONS DRAINAGE CLIMATE VEGETATION ANIMALS

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 2. Atlantic Slave Trade

• Breaking the Silence Very detailed site from Anti-Slavery international. Use this page to find out about the trade and its impact on Africa and the Americas. looks at Slave ports across europe. You choose your port and area.
• Triangular Trade From the UK National Maritime Museum. This is an animated site which allows you to set up your own exhibition using their online images and documents.
• From the site of the Amistad Museum ship. An excellent resource, including:

Atlantic Slave Trade timeline providing a brief history of slavery on both sides of the ocean, including significant treaties and legislation abolishing the practice. West Indies timeline chronicles events of Cuba and the Carribean, with the rise of a slave trade market despite legislative prohibitions.

• Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool explores what life might have been like on board for those forced to make the six- to eight-week journey by ship
• Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery By the Portcities site. Clear and well illustrated. Looks at:

Slavery Routes From Bristol to Africa From Africa to America From America to Bristol The Places Involved Map The People Involved Enslaved People Traders, Merchants and Planters Sailors

 

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 3. Plantation life

• Black Peoples of America The key details from History on the net, listed for you to click on. The information is set out clearly. Very good for extra information and links to detailed sites which is found in Further Information
• Understanding Slavery Read personal accounts, witness an auction, and gain a global view. From the School Discovery site:

A World of Slavery A Slave on Three Continents: the story of Olaudah Equiano Witness a Slave Auction Resources

• BBC History of Africa:

Caribbean Family History by Kathy Chater Slavery and Economy in Barbados  by Dr Karl Watson

• The History of Mary Prince Published in London in 1831 this is  the first autobiography by a woman slave in the Americas. This article describes the book and what Mary had to say about her life as a slave in the West Indies.
• Slavery: 1750-1870 from the Spartacus Site. Some of the links are shown below, but there are many more if you go to the main site

      (But remember to scroll down the page to read about the topic!)

	The Slave System:
	African Slave Trade	Slave Ships
	Plantation System	Tobacco Plantation
	Cotton Plantations	Rice Plantations
	Sugar Plantations	Slave Markets
	Overseers	Slave Branding
	Slave Ownership	Mulattoes
	Underground Railroad	Runaways
	Slave Life:
	House Slaves	Field Slaves
	Food and Clothes	Housing
	Education	Religion
	Punishment	Whipping
	Marriage	Family Life
	Old Age	Slave Breeding
	Slave Music	Childhood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 4. Ending slavery

 Britain

• The First Black Britons By Sukhdev Sandhu. Black people have lived in Britain for centuries - although their circumstances have varied greatly. Some have been enslaved and exploited, while others have enjoyed privilege and status. This tells their early story.
• British Anti-slavery  by Dr John Oldfield From the BBC History of Africa
• William Wilberforce Brief biography
• The Slave Trade By the Portcities site. Clear and well illustrated. Looks at:

The campaign against slavery Opponents and supporters The campaign in the 1820s The end of Slavery?

 USA

• United States timeline considers national history relevant to the slave trade, emancipation, and the early beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. From the site of the Amistad Museum ship
• Documents from the time to use on Newspapers, Personal Papers, Court Records,  Government Papers, Popular Media, Maps. From the site of the Amistad Museum ship
• The Civil rights movement Excellent, easy to use. Includes a timeline. Full of information and links to other sites. From Africa Online. Click on theto go the site.....

INTRODUCTION MAJOR EVENTS RIOTS MISSISSIPPI MONTGOMERY

EMANCIPATION ORGANISATIONS LITLE ROCK SELMA

• Martin Luther King From excellent Africa Online site. Click on theto go the site .....

INTRODUCTION EARLY LIFE MONTGOMERY CAMPAIGNS SELMA BLACK POWER ASSASSINATION

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 5. Apologies today

• Slavery: time to say sorry? BBC1Xtra site discusses whether it is time or appropriate for the old slave trading ports to apologise
• Slave trade 'a crime against humanity' Describes the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in South Africa, when several European countries said they were prepared to apologise

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6. Images

• Gallery of images from the Amistad site
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record  Monumenatl and exteremely useful!!! The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World. Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.

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