Links to Education Websites

African Diaspora Forum

http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/forum/topics.asp

The African Diaspora Forum is a discussion forum on topics and themes relating to the history of the African diaspora.The Forum is managed by graduate students who are associated with the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora at York University.
African Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania)

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/mcgee.html

This is a list of online information storage sites (FTP, Gopher, Telnet, WWW, BBS, Database, etc.) that contain a significant amount of information relating to or of concern to Black or African people, culture, and issues around the world, either in files or conferences. Also included (in other sections of the list) are resources relating to Ethnic/Intercultural Relations, International/Sustainable Development (includes Global Networking), and Social/Progressive Activism. Please let Art McGee know of any updates, additions, corrections or suggestions that you might have. This list is up to date as of JULY 29, 1994.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy

http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/index.html

THE LOUISIANA SLAVE DATABASE AND THE LOUISIANA FREE DATABASE: 1719-1820
Archives of Ontario – Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/slavery/index.aspx

We do not know who these people are. They had their portraits taken sometime during the 1870s or 1880s. The older people might have been slaves; perhaps the younger ones were descendants of slaves. The documents and images in this exhibit come from the collections of the Archives of Ontario and from other heritage organizations as noted. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are shown as written in the original documents.
Breaking the Ice: The Mary Ann Shadd Story

http://www.whitepinepictures.com/seeds/i/5/sidebar.html

When Mary Ann Shadd came to Canada from the United States she came by railroad. But unlike the flood of Black fugitive slaves who came to Canada via the Underground Railroad, Shadd travelled with her freedom rather than for it. The Underground Railroad was not a real railroad but was a secret network of people, of safe houses, set up to help Blacks escape the slavery of several American states and move to free states, or freedom in Canada. The organization used railroad terms as codes to describe the actions of people who belonged to the network and helped fugitives along the way. For example, Mary Ann Shadd’s family served as a "station," or transfer point, along the route to freedom. "Conductors" helped escaped persons by hiding them from being recaptured by their masters. Conductors moved their "passengers" or "cargo" from one station to another(1)
Buxton National Historic Site & Museum

http://www.buxtonmuseum.com/

Through the years, Buxton have been awarded many grants, providing the museum board with the finances needed to contract staff and purchase supplies to add to the ever-growing collection of site archives. Researchers are a common sight at the Buxton Museum. Our collection is on rare occasions loaned to other facilities, such as the Royal Ontario Museum. We suggest that you make an appointment to view specific archives on our site.
Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages (CIRESC)

http://www.esclavages.cnrs.fr/

The Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages (CIRESC) is an International Research Group (GDRI), established in January 2008 as part of an agreement between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), University of Poitiers and York University in Canada.
Charles H. Wright Museum on African American History

http://www.chwmuseum.org/

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is the world’s largest institution dedicated to the African American experience. The museum provides learning opportunities, exhibitions, programs and events based on collections and research that explore the diverse history and culture of African Americans and their African origins.
Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/esss/

The ESSSS project, directed by Jane Landers and administered at Vanderbilt University, preserves and digitalizes endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to slavery in the Americas. This website provides information about the project and its history and tools that allow researchers to search the ESSSS database containing nearly 300,000 documents from three countries and several archives. While most of the documents contained here belong to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there are also some Cuban documents from the sixteenth century and Brazilian documents from the seventeenth.
EUROTAST

http://eurotast.eu/

EUROTAST is a Marie Curie Actions Initial Training Network (ITN), supporting a new generation of researchers to explore and investigate the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. Funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme, the network will be running for four years from 2012 to 2016. It will facilitate 13 PhD candidates and 2 postdoctoral fellows, across ten European partner institutions, to develop research and facilitate outreach initiatives with leading international specialists in history, archaeology, social anthropology and population genetics.