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African Studies Collection (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries)
A rich website featuring online access to a rich collection of African studies literature, including journals and dissertations. All issues of the Africana Libraries Newsletter are available and include a large source of information.
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Africans in America (1450-1865)
L’histoire de l’esclavage en Amérique est présentée en quatre chapitres. Le site du Public Broadcasting Service propose pour chaque époque l’historique, une banque d’images, des documents, récits, biographies et commentaires, ainsi qu’un mode d’emploi du site pour les enseignants.
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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820
In 1984, a professor at Rutgers University stumbled upon a trove of historic data in a courthouse in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Over the next 15 years, Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a noted New Orleans writer and historian, painstakingly uncovered the background of 100,000 slaves who were brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries making fortunes for their owners.
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Association pour la Connaissance l'Etude et la Mémoire de l'Esclavage (ACEME)
L’ACEME est une structure qui a pour objectif de promouvoir la connaissance et la réflexion sur les questions de la traite et de l'esclavage. Présenté par l'Université de Paris 8, ce site propose une riche source d’articles, de législations de l’esclavage et de textes de référence, ainsi qu’une chronologie, une bibliographie et d’autres liens.
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BBC Education Online - Windrush Archives
The BBC website contains over half a million pages of news, entertainment and factual material. There's also a wealth of educational programmes available across the BBC's TV and radio channels. Whether you are at school revising for exams; wanting to learn from the comfort of your own home; considering enrolling for an evening class, or even a degree course, BBCi has the useful resources and interactive activities for you.
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Black Film Center/Archive (BFC/A) Indiana University - Bloomington
A repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans as writers, actors, producers and musicians, as well as those which depict some aspect of black experience. It maintains a database of over 8000 films, not all of which are in the collection.
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Bristol and Slavery
In the long history of Bristol as a trading port, the Transatlantic Slave Trade lasted a relatively short time but it was of crucial economic and social importance to the city. This website features the city’s links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade by tracing the history, the Trade Triangle, as well as the people and companies involved.
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Brooklyn College Library - Archival Survey of the Records of the Jamaican and Trinidadian Communities
Caribbean People have been settling in New York City ever since 1899. Today, Brooklyn contains the greatest concentration of Caribbean people in the city. The Caribbean Collection, coordinated through the Archives and Special Collections Division of Brooklyn College, is the first initiative aiming to preserve the rich heritage of the community.
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Caraïbes Webdo, le magazine en ligne des Caraïbes
Ce site en français traite de l’histoire de l’esclavage dans les Caraïbes, le système esclavagiste (y compris une liste de châtiments), le Code noir et le Décret de 1848.
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Caribbean Studies Black and Asian History (CASBAH)
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) and the Public Record Office (PRO) are delighted to announce that the ICS and PRO are working together to build on the success of CASBAH pilot projectDuring 2003, the database of the CASBAH demonstrator project will be transferred to the PRO. The date for this transfer will be announced once details have been finalised. The PRO is committed to recruiting a Social Inclusion Project Manager early in 2003.
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Central Recherche Africaine
Ce site est votre portail aux archives, bibliothèques, et musées qui ont des collections importantes de sources primaires sur l'Afrique. Les recherches dans la base de données vous permettent de localiser des dépôts de sources primaires en Afrique.
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Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism
Compiled from archive, library and Internet source documentation, this timeline on slavery and in part the history of racism, has been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of enslaved Americans of African descent at historic sites located at the National Zoo, in Washington, DC.
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Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques
Site de ressources pédagogiques dédié à l'histoire de Saint-Barthélemy et tout particulièrement axé sur la traite négrière, l'esclavage, leurs abolitions et répercussions dans cette île des Petites Antilles.
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Encyclopaedia of slavery
This website contains information related to the Slave Trade and gives access to documents on slave accounts, the slave system, slave life, events and issues, campaigners against slavery, political organizations and British campaigners.
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Florida A&M University - Black Archives
The Florida Black Archives, Research Center and Museum is located on the FAMU campus. This facility, which complements academic studies in history, has become a popular tourist attraction.
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France -Sénat - Proposition de loi tendant à la reconnaissance de la traite et de l'esclavage
Rapport fait au nom de la Commission des lois constitutionnelles, de législation, du suffrage universel, du règlement et d'administration générale sur la proposition de loi, adoptée avec modifications par l'Assemblée nationale en deuxième lecture, tendant à la reconnaissance de la traite et de l'esclavage en tant que crime contre l'humanité (2000-2001).
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Gateway to colonial 'Slavery @ the Cape' of Good Hope in both Dutch and British South Africa
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Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, a part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction.
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Heritage of Slavery in South Africa
This website tells the story of slavery at the Cape of Good Hope with details on the life at the Dutch East India Company’s Slave Lodge and Groot Constantia Estate, a wine estate that made extensive use of slave labour.
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HistoRun.com
Ce site présente l’histoire de l’île de la Réunion, ancienne colonie française devenue département d'outre-mer français depuis 1946. On trouve les grandes étapes du peuplement de l'île de 1502, année du premier contact des portugais avec l'Ile à aujourd'hui. A travers plusieurs rubriques, on retrouve les éléments constitutifs de l'identité réunionnaise tels que l'histoire de l'esclavage, l'histoire des engagés et les noms créés après l'abolition de l'esclavage.
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Indiana University-Bloomington - Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC)
Established in 1991, the AAAMC is a repository of materials covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. It supports the research of scholars, students, and the general public from around the world by providing access to oral histories, photographs, musical and print manuscripts, audio and video recordings, and educational broadcast programs.
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
An independent American federal agency, NARA’s mission is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience. This website includes civil, congressional, judicial and military records of American slavery and the International Slave Trade.
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Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600 – 1807
This website from the Parliamentary Archives uses original source material, interwoven with narrative from expert historians, to tell the story of Parliament’s complex relationship with the British slave trade. The website enables visitors, anywhere in the world, to examine key documents, engage with the issues and voice their views.
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Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia - The Slave Trade
This website features the British History covering the period 1700-1930 and divided under several parts which include Slave Accounts, the Slave System, Slave Life, Events and Issue Women's Anti-Slavery Society, Anti-Slavery Groups, Legislation and USA Campaigners Against Slavery.
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The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC)
The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.
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Third Person, First Person Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library Duke University
These web pages are based on the catalog of an exhibit mounted at Perkins Library, Duke University, in November and December, 1995. Some of the items described here were too large or fragile to be scanned, so images of them were not included in the on-line version even though descriptions of the items are.
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University of Manchester - Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive
The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive contains material which documents the contribution of Black people to British, Eurpean and American development, Black history and anti - imperialist struggles. The archive intends to provide an alternative viewpoint to the misinformation carried in the mainstream.
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USA - Amistad Research Center
The Amistad Research Center Inc. on the Tulane University campus is a manuscripts library for the study of African American history, ethnic history, culture and race relations in the United States. Through images of original documents, the website contains a Timeline that presents a visual history of the Amistad Incident. It also has a rich digital collection of images from the Amistad archives.
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USA - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
This website contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
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USA - John Hope Franklin Collection of African and African-American Documentation
The John Hope Franklin Collection is a repository for African and African-American studies documentation and an educational outreach division of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. Founded in November 1995 with the support of its namesake, the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin, the Collection seeks to collect, preserve, and promote the use of library materials bearing on the history of Africa and people of African descent.
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