Africa and Slavery - African History on the Internet
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hislavery.html
This annotated guide to Internet resources on slavery and the African Diaspora is part of Stanford University Libraries' "Africa South of the Sahara" Internet resource guide.
African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Citizenship
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/
This Online exhibit showcases the African-American holdings at the Library of Congress. It includes links to collections including the Frederick Douglass Papers, "From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909," and "Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860."
Africans inAmerica
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This companion site to the PBS television series "Africans in America " examines the history of slavery in America in four chronological parts. It offers historical narratives, a resource bank of images and documents, and a teacher's guide to using the site and series in the classroom.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas : A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
This site provides a collection of images related to American slave trade and slave societies. The exhibit is sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and by the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia .
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
This site contains transcripts from more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery collected in the 1930s under the sponsorship of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It also includes 500 photographs of former slaves.
Digital History: African American Voices
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
black_voices/black_voices.cfm
This site offers links to primary documents related to slavery in America and essays on various aspects of the slave experience, including the middle passage, family life, economics, and abolition.
The Frederick Douglass Papers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html
Presents the papers of the 19th-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and risked his freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
From Slavery to Civil Rights
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/civilrights/flash.html
A timeline of African-American history. Photos, broadsides, maps, and other items are organized around time periods: slavery, abolition, antebellum, Civil War, reconstruction, progressive era, World War I, between the wars, World War II, and civil rights.
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
http://www.yale.edu/glc
The site addresses academic studies of the role of slavery, slave resistance, and abolition, and it links to information regarding curriculum, bibliographies, and calendar of events.
Looking at Slavery: Going to the Sources
http://www.historynow.org
A quarterly on-line journal produced by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Issue 2 (Dec. 2004) is dedicated to slavery. Includes articles by leading historians and lesson plans for 5 grade, middle and high school students.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.freedomcenter.org/
The site for the recently opened Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Oh io . Includes a section for educators with lesson plans and weblinks.
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Recounts the century of segregation following the Civil War. It features Jim Crow stories, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Compromise of 1877, and the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Slavery and Freedom in the North
www.hstg.org
The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich's site that will include a virtual exhibit, lesson plans, and other useful resources for teachers. Site will be launched Sept. 2005!
Slavery in America
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org
A site for educators, includes an image gallery, lesson plans, an encyclopedia of topics relevant to slavery, and an interactive exhibition called "Roads to Freedom," which examines the ways slaves faced the challenges of escape
Slavery in New York
www.slaveryinnewyork.org
The companion website to the New York Historical Society's exhibition on slavery in New York. Includes a virtual exhibition and educational and classroom materials.
Slavery and the Making of America
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html
The PBS site for the upcoming television series. Includes scans of original documents, a timeline of slavery, lessons plans for K-12 students, and a virtual museum.
Third Person, First Person
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery
An online exhibit, includes rare documents that recount the experience of slavery in America from the point of view of the enslaved, from the Duke University Special Collections Library.
The Time of the Lincolns
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
Examines the context and conflicts surrounding the Civil War with a section on slavery and freedom that covers topics like abolition and the Underground Railroad.
Virginia Runaways
http://people.uvawise.edu/runaways
Part of the Virtual Jamestown project, this site provides a collection of ads placed by slaveholders searching for fugitive slaves. The site is a project of the University of Virginia's Virginia Center for Digital History.
