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Stone Center Guide to the Web - Transatlantic Slave Trade (7 items)
 
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas, The: A Visual Record
This site contains a collection of visual resources documenting the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the United States. The site features over one thousand images and includes bibliographic records for further exploration and research. (Source: Virginia Foundation of the Humanities)
Breaking the Silence
This site serves to provide teachers and educators with extensive resources and ideas on ways to teach about the transatlantic slave trade “holistically, accurately and truthfully.” Included on the site are extensive lesson plans and ready-made activities on a variety of topics related to slavery and the slave trade. Also featured is an interactive map of routes taken and countries involved in the transatlantic slave trade. (Source: antislavery.org)
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
This site contains information about the transatlantic slave trade, which brought countless Africans to North America for enslavement. This informative and detailed site chronicles the slave trade from its inception through to its demise with the advent of abolition, with descriptive historical essays and images to accompany the text. (Source: The Mariners' Museum)
Records of Slave Ship Movement between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843
Supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site contains information about slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas from 1817-1843. The site includes a study description and a codebook to further illustrate the data presented. (Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade
This site provides a guide to documents available at the National Archives relating to slavery and the slave trade. The guide provides locations and descriptions of the materials available, as well as an essay on the documentation of slavery. (Source: National Archives and Records Administration)
Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This site provides research data and information on records of international slave ship movement during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Detailed data and statistical information are provided on various Atlantic slave trade routes. (Source: Data and Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
A collaborative project of Emory University and other institutions, this is an interactive database of 19th-century slave voyages across the Atlantic. It contains information on over 34,000 voyages and 67,000 captives. (Source: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database)
 

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