Slavery and Slave Trade

Subsection on Slavery which provides a good introduction to the origins and the development of slave trade and slavery. There is also audivisual material, as well as a section with useful and interesting links. Another relevant BBC website is one on"Slavery in Islam" which looks at the history of Arabian slave trade.

Curtin, Philip D.; Lovejoy, Paul E. Africans in bondage : studies in slavery and the slave trade. Madison: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1986.

Resources for those interested in studying the Transatlantic Slave Trade. and starting point for those who have little or no knowledge of Britain’s involvement in the trafficking of Africans and the abolition movement. Key narratives have been identified, enabling the reader to easily navigate through the texts thematically (Africa, Capture and Enslavement etc) , whilst background pages provide context, activities encourage understanding, and a glossary explains unfamiliar terminology. (website)

The approximately 1,235 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that 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. (website)

Result of an immense research effort to record slaving voyages. So far, over 35000 voages have been recorded. The data is not only availabe for expert research (e.g. for ship names, captains, etc.) but has been processed for general use in the form of interactive graphics and essays.

ASPnet education project designed to provide teachers with a variety of resources and ideas about how to teach the subject holistically, accurately and truthfully. It aims to represent the voices that are not usually heard.(website)

Website edited by Brycchan Carey offers resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Its focus lies on British abolitionists, black writers in 18th century Britain (Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cugoano, and Ignatius Sancho) and poems about slavery.

has a special website which collects all online sources on the Amistad case in which a group of Africans secured their freedom twice, once through violent struggle and once through the U.S. Courts, and returned home.

"Free at Last" (BBC Worldservice). The documentary series investigates the unexplored history of black and African resistance to slavery.