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SLAVERY: Selected sources

Enslaved African Americand in the American South during the 19th century
Enslaved African Americand in the American South during the 19th century

1. The enslaved people 2. The laws 3. The plantations 4. Chronology 5. Selected fiction 6. Selected Non-fiction 7. Trans-Atlantic Slavery Trade 8. Origins of the people 9. Political economy of slavery 10. Fight and flight for freedom 11. Global Slavery Today

1. The enslaved people

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade https://enslaved.org/

Slave Biographies: Atlantic Database Network http://slavebiographies.org/project/ http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/

Voices Remembering Slavery: Freedom People Tell Their Stories https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/

North American Slave Narratives https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html

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mages of African American Slavery and Freedom https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slave.html

2. The laws

The Avalon Project at Yale https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/slavery.asp

Slavery and the Courts https://www.loc.gov/collections/slaves-and-the-courts-from-1740-to-1860/about-this-collection/

13th Amendment to the US Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

3. The plantations

Plantations complexes in the Southern United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation_complexes_in_the_Southern_United_States

Images of slave plantations https://tinyurl.com/4f5zssnw

Plantation life https://tinyurl.com/mj46wyvm

4. Chronology

Slavery in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

400 years since slavery: a timeline of American history https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/aug/15/400-years-since-slavery-timeline

Digital History: Slavery https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=6&smtID=4

5. Selected fiction

Top Ten Movies on Slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xADT-sJpg7I

Novels about American Slavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Novels_about_American_slavery

Enslaved poets http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/identity/text6/text6read.htm

6. Selected Non-fiction

Slavery and the Making of America https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/slavery-making-of-america/

International Slavery Museum https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/international-slavery-museum

Slavery in America: A Resource Guide https://guides.loc.gov/slavery-in-america

7. Trans-Atlantic Slavery Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

Slavery Routes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQvC9c-3K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ppAebUW54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMB7CpjIS9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwXuRAseIc

Slave Voyages https://www.slavevoyages.org/

8. Origins of the people

Slavery and the suffering of Africa (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajI8lkYdmAk

Ghana https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-5-the-first-global-age/54-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-betaa/v/impact-of-the-slave-trade-through-a-ghanaian-lens-world-history-project-beta

Angola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bkNr_Uwj_o

9. Political economy of slavery

Slavery as an economic and political system https://www.coursera.org/lecture/race-cultural-diversity-american-life/2-3-slavery-as-an-economic-and-political-system-and-its-abolition-P6hh8

Slavery, Capitalism, and the making of the Modern World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJkIRriNZ8

Capitalism and Slavery at 75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTOSaW4184

10. Fight and flight for freedom

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23

Kansas Underground Railroad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5c6cDCTJNY

African Americans soldiers in the Civil War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWsMAwHgd4

11. Global Slavery Today

The Ameena Gafoor Institute https://ameenagafoorinstitute.org/

Global Slavery Index https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/

Slavery in the 21st century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

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