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• PBS Africans in America
  Covers the history of slavery in America from 1450 to 1865. Features maps, documents, images and biographical information.

• Library of Congress: Images of African-American Slavery & Freedom
  Photos, broadsides, illustrations from books and more.

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
  More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves from the Library of Congress.

• Slavery in America
  Features an encyclopedia, images and interactive exhibitions such as the Melrose Interactive Slavery Environment and Roads to Freedom, which retraces escape routes used by slaves.

• Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
  A gallery images from collected photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America. The site also features a brief movie with commentary and a discussion forum.

• Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
  Includes excerpts from Equiano's autobiography and map of his travels.

Videos

• Slavery’s Buried Past (DVD) Documentary on the 17th Century African slave cemetery recently re-discovered in New York City. F128.39 .S53 2001

• The Terrible Transformation (VHS) This first episode of a four part series examines the origins of one of the largest forced human migrations in recorded history. After the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619, the British colonies laid the groundwork for a system of racial slavery which generated profits that ensured the colonies' growth and survival.
  E441 .A45 1998 pt.1

Print Resources

• Atlas of Slavery
  James Walvin : HT861 .W33 2006 ; Reference
• Slavery in America : From Colonial Times to the Civil War
  Dorothy Schneider and Carl J. Schneider : E441 .S36 2000 ; General
• Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
  Ira Berlin : E446 .B49 1998 ; General
• Africans in America : America's Journey Through Slavery
  Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team : E441 .J65 1998 ; General
• Blacks in Colonial America
  Oscar Reiss : E185.18 .R45 1997 ; General
• A Documentary History of Slavery in North America
  Willie Lee Rose : E 441 .D64 ; General

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