U.S. History of Slavery in the Yahoo! Directory

Emancipation Proclamation@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Lincoln__Abraham__1809_1865_/Emancipation_Proclamation
Spartacus Educational: The Slave Trade
Features slave accounts, the slave system, events, women's anti-slavery societies, legislation, and American anti-slavery campaigners.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
Important events in the evolution of slavery in North America.
www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery [read review]
Companion to the traveling exhibit commemorating the struggle against slavery and its abolition.
digital.nypl.org/lwf/english/site/flash.html
Slavery in New York
Exhibition from the New York Historical Society.
www.slaveryinnewyork.org
Antislavery Literature Project, The
Collaborative electronic publishing project highlighting the origins of multicultural literature in the United States.
antislavery.eserver.org
Africans in America
Companion site to the PBS series which examines the economic and intellectual foundations of racial slavery in America and the global economy that prospered from it. Includes a teacher's guide.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia
Thomas Jefferson on Slavery
1781 commentary by Thomas Jefferson in which he appeals for the end of slavery as degrading to the Southern family and endangering the liberty of all.
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.htm
United States National Slavery Museum
Telling the story of American slavery and its impact on our nation's institutions and individuals. Includes information for teachers, events calendar, and news on the construction of a permanent museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
www.usnationalslaverymuseum.org
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery
From the Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam007.html
African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Online exhibit chronicling the experience of Africans on American soil from 1619 to 1865.
www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm
Slavery - The Peculiar Institution
Discusses the Atlantic slave trade and liberation strategies. From the U.S. Library of Congress' African American Odyssey web site.
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart1.html
African-American Mosaic: Colonization
Articles and images devoted to the American Colonization Society's efforts to send free African-Americans to Liberia from 1817 to 1867.
lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam002.html
Securing the Leg Irons
"Restriction of Legal Rights for Slaves in Virginia and Maryland, 1625 - 1791" - The Early America Review, Winter 1996-97.
earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/slavery.html
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Hundreds of images collected by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.
hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery
Religion of the Slaves, The
Lecture on the religious life of Southern slaves.
www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/twelve.html
Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices
Online exhibit from the Special Collections Library at Duke.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery
Abolitionist, The
Articles related to the anti-Slavery movement. Includes a history of John Brown, the Underground Railroad, Levi Coffin, and William Garrison.
www.afgen.com/slave1.html
Wilmot Proviso@
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Wilmot_Proviso
DiscoverySchool.com: Understanding Slavery
Includes one slave's story and a description of a slave auction.
school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery