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.

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.

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.

Timeline of the legislation which carried into law the evolution of American slavery. Includes bibliography of further reading.

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.

The authoritative collection of WPA slave narratives.

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.

Tells the epic maritime story of how enslaved Africans were transported from the coasts of Africa to American shores.

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.

Links to original source materials, hundreds of organized pictures and graphics which tell the story of American slavery from the slaves' perspective.

Jenny B. Wahl describes the spread of slaveholding, its legal and social framework and markets and prices. Includes graphs and tables of statistics.

Fortune was an African American man enslaved in Waterbury, a Connecticut farming community, in the 18th century. Mattatuck Historical Society tells the story of his life, the world he lived in, and what happened to his skeleton after he died.

Article describing a pro-slavery constitutional amendment proposed by Congress in 1861.

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.

Slave narratives from the beginning of American slavery until the 1920's. Published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

Numerous articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion into Africa to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, illustrations.

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.

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.

Preview of and supplement to the book, Slave Badges and the Slave-Hire System in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865.

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.

Douglas Harper describes the growth, end, and consequences of slaveholding in the Northern colonies of what became the United States.

Resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.

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.

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.

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.

Search for records that document the names and lives of slaves, freedpersons and their descendants.