Links and Web Resources:
Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
There are thousands of pages on the web that deal with slavery, abolition, and emancipation. This page offers links to a few of them. Some of them have been chosen by me as being especially useful. Others have been suggested by you. Please keep your suggestions coming and let me know about your website or about a website you think should be included here. The links on this page have been arranged under fairly broad categories. Click on the link to jump to that category, or just scroll down the page to see them all.
Slavery and Abolition Throughout the World 
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British Slavery and Abolition 
- Bristol and Slavery
Home page of a website that explores Bristol's involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the impact on modern Bristol. A very useful site.
- Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807
This site, hosted by the British Houses of Parliament, explores the complex history of Parliament's role in the British Slave Trade. It includes digistised and transcribed versions of many of the original documents held in the Parliamentary Archives..
- Slaves' Stories
"The year is 1780. In this year European traders will take thousands of Africans into slavery. This website follows four of those people..." This is an excellent website for children, hosted by the Liverpool Museums Service.
- The International Slavery Museum
Information on the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
- The Wilberforce House Museum
William Wilberforce's house in Hull is open to the public as a museum of his life and the campaign against slavery.
- WISE: The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation
Academics at WISE, a research centre at the University of Jull, assemble, analyse and disseminate data related to slavery and emancipation, past and present.
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North American Slavery and Abolition 
- Africans in America
Maintained by PBS, an American broadcaster, this site is an excellent introduction to the history of slavery in the United States.
- The Atlantic Slave Trave and Slavery in America
A personal site, put together by Neil Frankel, which contains a great deal of useful information about American slavery.
- Black Loyalist Heritage Society
A Canadian site exploring the history of the 'Black Loyalists': Africans and slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolution. Includes detailed archaeological information about the Loyalist colonies in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
- Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom
A large collection of slavery-related images from the Library of Congress
- North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
This important site "documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." It includes the full texts of almost 300 slave narratives.
- Slavery in Mexico
A short but useful introduction to the history of slavery in Mexico.
- Slavery in the North
A text-heavy, but very informative site about the history of slavery in the northern states of the United States.
- Twentieth Century African American Writers
Homepage of an encyclopdedia edited by Dr. Wilfred Samuels at the University of Utah. Although focusing on the twentieth century, it has much to say about writing produced during - and about - the years of slavery.
- Virginia Runaways Project
A digital database of runaway and captured slave and servant advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. Part of 'Virtual Jamestown'.
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Slavery and Literature (including electronic texts)
- Anti-Slavery Poems
Very interesting and useful selection of antislavery poems in English, mostly shorter texts, with excellent scholarly notes and discussion.
- African American Voices
Steven Mintz of the University of Houston has provided an extremely useful selection from the most famous slave narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920
This important site "documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." It includes the full texts of almost 300 slave narratives.
- Antislavery Texts by Thomas Clarkson
Facsimilies of several of Thomas Clarkson's works, including his 1785 Essay and his 1808 History
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Slavery and Abolition in the Modern World
- Anti-Slavery International
This organisation, a direct decendent of the eighteenth-century Abolition Society, works against slavery in the modern world.
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On This Website
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* This page last updated 7 July 2008 *