Knowledge: slavery
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- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
http://www.yale.edu/glc/ - Center at Yale University dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction.
- Olaudah Equiano
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/Equiano.html - Excerpts from Equiano's slave autobiography, a best-seller of the 18th century that had a major impact on English and American public opinion.
- The Terrible Transformation
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html - Numerous articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion into Africa to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, and illustrations.
- Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
http://www.ama.africatoday.com - Contains background texts, references and material on issues such as racism and reparations.
- The Roots of American Slavery
http://www.stratfordhall.org/schwarz.html - Bibliographical essay by Philip J. Schwarz, Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/ - This site provides access to raw data and documentation on a variety of slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/ - Resources including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.
- Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0144039x.asp - Journal covering demographic, social, economic, historical and psychological aspects of slavery and its eradication from the ancient period to the present.
- Race and Slavery in the Middle East
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/lewis1.html - Two chapters on the roots of African slavery, specifically in the Middle eastern region, by Bernard Lewis, Oxford University Press.
- Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters
http://www.brycchancarey.com/sancho/ - A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of an 18th century slave, and his achievements in London; includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, music, and bibliography,
- Quobna Ottobah Cugoano :: a Former Slave Speaks Out
http://www.brycchancarey.com/cugoano/ - An introduction to the author of the first substantial anti-slavery text written in English by an African. Includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, and a bibliography.
- Slavery in the Roman Empire: Numbers and Origins
http://home.mindspring.com/~decer/roman.htm - Scholarly article by John Madden analyzing the sources of slaves in Ancient Rome.
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