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Collection of educational articles, with quotations from primary source documents, on the history
and experience of slavery. By Steven Mintz of the University of Houston.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm
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Ghost Amendment: The Thirteenth Amendment that Never Was
Article describing a pro-slavery constitutional amendment proposed by Congress in 1861.
http://www.geocities.com/ghostamendment/
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The Roots of American Slavery: A Bibliographical Essay
Bibliographical essay by Philip J. Schwarz, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth
University. Lists many books on the subject with comments on the contents and value.
http://www.stratfordhall.org/schwarz.html
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Slavery in the North
The growth, end, and consequences of slaveholding in the Northern colonies of what became the
United States.
http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/cw/northabol.htm
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Freedom Shackled
The slave ship, Henrietta Marie, speaks from its watery grave to give us the first true picture of
the horror that men, women and children suffered in the Atlantic slave trade.
http://www.johnshepler.com/articles/slaveship.html
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Click2History: Slave Voices
Links to original source materials, hundreds of organized pictures and graphics which tell the
story of American slavery from the slaves' perspective.
http://www.click2history.com/slave_voices/slave_voices_ch1.htm
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African American Journey
From Africa to America. World Book has prepared the story of African Americans, detailing the
journey from Africa to slavery, emancipation, and the struggle for civil rights.
http://www2.worldbook.com/features/aajourney/html/intro.html
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Frederick Douglass
A tribute to the man who dedicated his work and life fighting slavery. Read about his family,
religious beliefs, and concept of equality.
http://www.barefoot-webland.com/FD/
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Captive Passage
Tells the epic maritime story of how enslaved Africans were transported from the coasts of Africa
to American shores.
http://www.mariner.org/captivepassage/
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Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation
Resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, including slave narratives,
biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.
http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/
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Boston Abolitionist Sermon regarding the Fugitive Slave Bill
Abolitionist Sermon delivered October 20, 1850 at Tremont Street Church, Boston by Rev. Nathaniel
Colver. "The Fugitive Slave Bill, or, God's Laws Paramount to the Laws of Men." Image
files of original 24 page booklet.
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABT8678
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Requests from Ex-slaves for Pensions from Ex-slaveowners
What happened to the strange relationships between slaves and those who claimed to own them --
after their emancipation by the 13th Amendment? Evidence from the William Preston family papers
shows several intriguing aspects.
http://www.uky.edu/LCC/HIS/scraps/joe.html
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Sixteen Largest County Slave Owners in the U.S. in 1860
From the 1860 U.S. slave census, data on slavery and a list of the 16 slaveholders who held 500 or
more slaves in any single County. Includes citation to sources.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/biggest16.htm
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PBS: Africans in America, Part 1, The Terrible Transformation
Numerous articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion into Africa
to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, illustrations.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html
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Lost Americans Web
Website devoted to hard to find ancestors, esspecially African American slaves, freedmen, Native
Americans, and Mixed-Bloods.
http://lostamericans.netfirms.com/
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Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Companion web-site to Manu Herbstein's historical novel, Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade,
winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award. The web-site contains
background texts, references and material on issues such as racism and reparations.
http://www.ama.africatoday.com
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Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870
List of large slaveholders from 1860 County slave census, and surname matches for African Americans
on 1870 census, with an alphabetical index of holders of 10% of all slaves in the U.S.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/
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African American Odyssey: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution (Part 1)
Library of Congress exhibit explores the methods used by Africans and their American-born
descendants to resist enslavement, as well as to demand emancipation and full participation in
American society.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
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The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Collection of articles published by the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library of Long Island
University summarizing American slavery. Includes timelines, biographies and links to further
reading.
http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
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African Americans at Jamestown
Timeline of the legislation which carried into law the evolution of American slavery. Includes
bibliography of further reading.
http://www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/AFRICANS.html
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The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott, a fifty year-old slave, and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St.
Louis Circuit Court. The disposition of this case, and its infamous ruling, contributed to the
tensions leading to the Civil War.
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/
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North American Slave Narratives
Slave narratives from the beginning of American slavery until the 1920's. Published by the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html
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Original Slave Trade Documents from the 18th and 19th Centuries
This site provides access to raw data and documentation on a variety of slave trade topics from the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Published by the Data and Program Library Service
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
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Chronology On The History Of Slavery, 1619-1789
this page contains a timeline of slavery in America from 1619 until "the end", reportedly
in 1865 when the 13th amendment to the Constitution offered universal manumission and abolished
slavery. The chronology has been thoroughly researched, with references at the end of each entry,
some pointing to other Web resources.
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
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How the Cradle of Liberty Became a Slave-Owning Nation
Detailed article published by the Washington Post on the origins of American slavery, from its
origins in European ignorance towards Africans at the time of European exploration, to George
Washington's vested interests in the institution.
http://www.innercity.org/columbiaheights/newspaper/slavery.html
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