August 23

International Day For The Remembrance Of The Slave Trade And Its Abolition (23rd August)

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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (transmitted by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly A/54/137), UNESCO sought to "increase awareness of the slave trade and slavery, its causes and consequences, including modern forms of slavery, to encourage solidarity with the peoples that have suffered because of slavery and to celebrate the African Diaspora."

 

UN Resources on the Slave Trade and its Abolition

  • The Slave Route Project (UNESCO)
  • Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery UNESCO Slave Route Project and the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March)

    • Non-UN Resources on the Slave Trade and its Abolition

  • Mémoire St Barth | Histoire de Saint-Barthélemy Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques
  • Abolition of Slavery National Archives of the United Kingdom
  • The Abolition of the Slave Trade Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

    From UN Pulse:   
    • Permanent Link: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (23 August)
    May 15

    British Slave Trade Legacies [Web Archiving Project]

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    The website "British Slave Trade Legacies" (BSTL) is a web archiving project. The sites archived in BSTL attempt to index what was online from June 2007 to June 2008 detailing anniversary programmes created to educate the public. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed in 1807 made it illegal for Britain to kidnap, capture, and transport African people from their homeland. In 2007 numerous organizations and community groups commemorated the bicentenary. Over 200 URLs are now collected in this joint archive. The website can be explored either as an alphabetical full list; or by region; type; and creator. The types of collected resources are: online exhibition; website; education resource; event or programme; and news article. For each website, at least three captures are available. Although most of the resources are still active, this website has the merit of bringing together a coherent archive on a crucial aspect of British and world history. http://www.archive-it.org/files/slavery-exhibit/From Intute.ac.uk
    March 25

    International Day Of Remembrance Of Victims Of Slavery And The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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    25 March, the International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade for 2010 is being observed under the theme “Expressing Our Freedom Through Culture”. Read the UN Secretary-General's message and find out more about the activities planned at the UN Headquarters to commemorate the event. From UN Pulse: Permanent Link: 25 March - Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
    March 12

    Recovered Histories, A Digital Library About The Slave Trade And Its Abolition. Anti-Slavery International

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    Recovered Histories
    The Recovered Histories website provides free access to a digital library of 18th and 19th Century literature about slavery, the slave trade and abolition taken from the archives of Anti-Slavery international. It includes over 30,000 pages of pamphlets, illustrations and texts including classic works from British campaigners such as William Wilberforce, pro and anti-slavery lobbies and writings of former slaves such as Frederick Douglass. Other features of the site include timelines of key events, a glossary of terms and an educational section with book lists and links to curriculum related resources. Copyright information is displayed on the website. From Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.recoveredhistories.org/

    January 06

    Transatlantic Slave Database. Emory University

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    Transatlantic slave database The Transatlantic slave database is maintained online as a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, forming part of Emory University Digital Library. It provides free access to a wealth of information and online resources about the history of the transatlantic slave trade. These include: essays, maps, digital images of manuscripts, prints and portraits and statistical datasets. It is possible to download files of information on ship names, embarkations and to search a voyages database and an african slave names database. Other features of the site include an education section with suggested lesson plans and classroom activities. Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
    December 11

    Long Term Impact Of The Slave Trade On Citizens' Trust In Local Instutions And Governments In Africa. Afrobarometer

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    Transatlantic slave trade and the evolution of mistrust in Africa: an empirical investigation
    This site provides free access to the full text of Afrobarometer working paper no.100 by Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon which was published in June 2008. Afrobarometer publications report the results of public opinion surveys on the attitudes of citizens in selected African countries towards democracy. It is coordinated by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD, Ghana), the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), and the Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP). This 47 page report considers the long term impact of the slave trade on the trust of local instutions and governments by the population. a key question is whether whether individuals belonging to an ethnic group that was heavily impacted by the slave trades in the past are less trusting of political leaders and others today. Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.afrobarometer.org/papers/AfropaperNo100.pdf
    December 11

    Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

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    This site provides access to four databases (Voyages, Estimates, Images, and African Names) with "information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries." Data includes summary statistics, timelines, graphs, and maps. Site also includes introductory essays, lesson plans, and links to related material. An Emory University Digital Library Research Initiative, with support from international partners.
    URL: http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
    LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27172
    December 09

    Historical And Contemporary Slavery, A Comparative Survey. UNESCO

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    Unfinished Business: A Comparative Survey of Historical and Contemporary Slavery

    Author(s): Joel Quirk, Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) 

    An analysis of the relationship between the global history of slavery and abolition and modern forms of human bondage.

    ...the first ever comparative analysis of historical slave systems and modern forms of human bondage. From this standpoint, recent concerns over human trafficking, debt-bondage, child labor and other related problems are analyzed in view of the historical strengths and weaknesses of the legal abolition of slavery.

    By bringing together a range of studies on different aspects of slavery, both past and present, this publication provides an innovative platform for promoting dialogue about ways of addressing both contemporary slavery and the enduring legacies of historical slave systems.

    July 10

    Africans In Bondage : Studies In Slavery And The Slave Trade...

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    Africans in bondage : studies in slavery and the slave trade : essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin This site provides free access to the full text of the book which was published by African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986. ISBN 0299970205. The 378 page text comprises 13 essays by leading experts on different aspects of the history of the slave trade. Chapters include the slave trade in the Niger Delta, the slave trade in Spanish America 1703-1739; slave prices in the Portuguese southern Atlantic 1600-1800 and the relationship between the slave trade, Empire and other forms of commerce. Intute.ac.uk
    http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/AfricaFocus/AfricaFocus-idx?id=AfricaFo
    April 06

    How British People Commemorated The Bicentenary Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade

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    1807 Commemorated : the abolition of the slave trade
    1807 Commemorated was a project of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP), University of York. It focused upon researching how British people commemorated the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. This offers insight into issues surrounding memory and contemporary public understanding of slavery and the slave trade. The website provides information on the aims and activities of the project. It includes access to press releases, full text reports and surveys. Topics covered include: media responses and representations of the bicentenary; analysis of museum displays and artwork throughout the country and audience responses from the public. Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/index.html

    March 27

    Abolition Of The Slave Trade. UN

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    ... 25 March 2008, [was]  the first International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, designated by General Assembly resolution 62/122. The site includes background information and a factsheet on Slavery Today.

    Learn more about the historic slave trade from UNESCO's Memory of the World Slave Trade Archives and Slave Route project.

     Permanent Link: Abolition of the Slave Trade UN Pulse

    February 22

    200th Anniversary Of The Abolition Of Slavery In The UK Web Archive

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    200th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the UK web archive This site contains a database of over 100 archived websites relating to the commemoration of the 200th abolition of slavery in Britain. They have been archived by the Archive-It subscription service created by the Internet webarchive . They include sites from Uk government departments, local government authorities, charities and heritage organisations. Each entry has snapshots of the site from different dates which capture news stories. The collection may be searched or browsed. They offer insight into the activities arranged for the anniversary, and the types of programmes and projects used to inform and educate the public about slavery and the slave trade in 2007. From Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.archive-it.org/
    February 13

    200th Anniversary Of The Abolition Of Slavery In The UK, A Digital Archive Collection

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    New Digital Archive Collection from Internet Archive’s “Archive-It”: 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery in the UK

    The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807 was the start of a successful process that outlawed the African slave trade worldwide. After centuries of suffering, millions of African slaves were eventually freed and millions of lives saved. Those who worked so hard in the 18th and 19th century to abolish slavery would be shocked to find that there was still so much work to be done 200 years later. On this 200th anniversary slavery has changed but it has not been eradicated. The sites you see archived here attempt to catalog the anniversary and the programs created to educate the public.

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    January 15

    U.K. Parliament And The British Slave Trade 1600-1807

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    Parliament and the British slave trade 1600-1807
    This site was created by the Parliamentary Archives with the 24 Hour Museum to showcase materials which they hold relating to the history of the slave trade and abolition of slavery in the UK during the period 1600-1807. The site offers free access to a history and timeline of key events as well as an excellent digitised collection of primary resources. The latter include documents, parliamentary bills, petititons, oral history accounts, prints and writings from abolitionists and slaves. They include coverage of events leading up to the abolition of the slave trade in the UK. The site also offers a learning section with useful lesson plans and projects, ideas for teachers and a glossary of terms. From Intute.ac.uk
    http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/slavetrade/index.html
    September 05

    Slave Studies

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    Slave studies net: a portal for education and research

    ...It provides free access to a collection of links to a wide range of websites and resources relating to the study of slavery and the abolition of slavery across all time periods and geographic regions... (More)
    August 29

    Britain And The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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    Freedom : a KS3 history resource about Britain and the transatlantic slave trade

    This online learning package was created by the National Maritime Museum. It was designed for use by school children at the National Curriculum Key stage three, however it would also be of use to members of the general public seeking an informative illustrated introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade and its abolition.... (More)
    July 04

    Slavery - Africa

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    Story of Africa : slavery

    Forming part of the BBC World Service Story of Africa website, this site focuses on the history of slavery in relation to Africa.

    The site includes information on the following topics:

    • the Roots of Slavery;
    • African Slave Owners;
    • the East African Slave Trade;
    • he Atlantic Slave Trade;
    • the Journey;
    • Africa's losses;
    • African Resistence;
    • the End of Slavery;
    • the Resettlement of Freed Slaves;
    • Forces for Change; and
    • Remarkable Facts.
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