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| Stone Center Guide to the Web - Slavery (general) (5 items) |
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- Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
- This site is the online companion to the PBS documentary Africans in America. The four-part series covers slavery in America from 1450-1865. Each part has "a historical narrative, images, documents, stories, biographies, commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses." (Source: PBS)
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- Colonial African Americans
- This site provides overview information on slavery and African American life during colonial times. Included are essays and articles on the slave experience, transcriptions of historical documents, biographies, audio clips of interviews on related historical topics, and a bibliography for further research. (Source: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
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- Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
- Organized by topic, the site includes detailed information on slavery, particularly the slavery of Africans and their descendents through history. Photographs of artifacts with captions are also featured. (Source: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library)
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- Slavery and the Making of America
- This site contains information about the PBS documentary series Slavery and the Making of America. The makers of this series investigate the history of the enslavement of Africans in the U.S. and the role that slavery played in the development of this country. The site also features several supplementary resources including a timeline and slave narratives. (Source: PBS)
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- The Antislavery Literature Project
- The Antislavery Literature Project’s (ALP) goal is “to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, U.S. and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies.” This site contains hundreds of antislavery texts made available free and full-text by the ALP. Resources can be searched or browsed by categories such as newspapers, poetry, prose, travel accounts, speeches, slave narratives, and more. (Source: Arizona State University and Iowa State University)
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