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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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