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 
- Black and Asian History Map
This site, run by Channel 4, is a superb resource for anyone interested in the history of the black and Asian presence in the United Kingdom, from the earliest times to the present day.
- 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.
- British Anti-slavery
Written by the historian John Oldfield, and presented by the BBC, this is a brief but very useful introduction to the history of the British anti-slavery movement.
- PORT, the Maritime Information Gateway
Hosted by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, this fully searchable site provides a wealth of resources for the slave trade and for maritime history more generally.
- 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.
- Transatlantic Slavery, Merseyside Maritime Museum
Information on the slavery exhibits at the Merseyside Maritime 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.
- www.blackpresence.co.uk
The history pages at www.blackpresence.co.uk offer a useful introduction for the the general reader.
- 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.
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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.
- 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.
- The 1817 diaries of the Quaker Merchant, John Adamson
A Quaker abolitionist's eyewitness book on slavery and travel in the USA between the war of independence and the civil war. This is mostly a book advert but contains some useful information.
- Twentieth Century African American Writers
Homepage of a forthcoming encyclopdedia edited by Dr. Wilfred Samuels at the University of Utah. Although focusing on the twentieth century, it will have 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 anti-slavery poems in English, mostly shorter texts, with excellent scholarly notes and discussion.
- A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, Consistently with the Interests of All Parties Concerned (London, 1828), By Moses Elias Levy. The full text, edited and annotated by Chris Monaco
- 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. This site, which used to be known as 'Excerpts from Slave Narratives', has recently moved to a new location at http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm and has been updated at the same time, with new introductions to the texts.
- 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
- Thoughts Upon Slavery
The full text of John Wesley's Thoughts Upon Slavery, with an image of the title page.
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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.
- Lifelife Expedition
"The Lifeline Expedition is a response to the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, with Europeans, Africans and Africans of the Diaspora journeying together. A distinctive feature has been that of Europeans walking in yokes and chains as a symbolic sign of apology."
- iamnotforsale.org
A website showcasing a collaborative work of art being created in Liverpool. "The artwork will be created in the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, and will take one whole year to make. It will be formed out of bleached cotton. Every single Liverpool resident and all visitors to Liverpool are invited to make their own personal mark and statement declaring their abhorrence of slavery, past and present, and a committment to work for justice and reconciliation."
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On This Website
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* This page last updated 22 August 2007 *