Links to Education Websites
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Finding Your African American Ancestors
Free Access to Slave Narratives Database Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner’s Guide, by David Thackery Slave Narratives database and CD-ROM -
H-Africa
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/Welcome to H-Africa, a member of H-Net’s consortium of scholarly lists. H-Africa encourages discussion of Africa’s history, culture, and African studies generally. Africanists of all disciplines are encouraged to subscribe. -
Histoire de l’Afrique de l’ouest
Destiné à promouvoir l’histoire de l’Afrique développée sur le continent, ce site est l’oeuvre commune d’historiens de plusieurs universités ouest africaines. On peut y trouver notamment une sélection d’études historiques (plusieurs articles en ligne), un annuaire des historiens, un inventaire des travaux d’étudiants et jeunes chercheurs de la région, ainsi que des informations sur l’actualité scientifique de l’histoire africaine. -
Mémoire St Barth – History of Saint-Barthelemy
Comité de Liaison et d’Application des Sources Historiques – Resources dedicated to the history of Saint-Barthelemy: slave trade, slavery, their abolition and impact on this island of the Lesser Antilles -
Montagnards
http://www.sukur.info/Mont/montindex.htmThis section, which is a work in progress, begins with a preamble situating the Mandara montagnards in broader context. -
National Geographic: The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/You are a slave.Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom.You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? -
Ontario Black Historical Society
This page lists the projects included in Canada’s Digital Collections (CDC). CDC was operated by Industry Canada between 1996 and 2004 to provide young Canadians with skills and experience in preparing digital Canadian content of local, regional and international interest. The various collections that were produced during this time period have now been archived by Library and Archives Canada. -
Sierra Leone Heritage
http://www.sierraleoneheritage.org/CI/The SierraLeoneHeritage.org digital resource is the main output of a research project entitled ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Repatriation, Knowledge Networks and Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone’. The project is being funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Beyond Text programme and is being directed by Dr Paul Basu of University College London. The project’s Informatics team is being led by Dr Martin White of the University of Sussex. -
Slave Narratives: An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snintro00.htmlIn 1855, John Little, a fugitive slave who had escaped to Canada, uttered this perceptive commentary upon attempts to convey the realities of the existence that he had fled: "Tisn’t he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is–’tis he who has endured." The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." … -
Slavery in Canada Portal
http://www.canadachannel.ca/slavery/This portal is an open site providing an online digital textbook and a full collection of resources for the study of slavery in Canadian history.