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Africa to 1945

General

Related Names

Lovejoy, Paul (dir.)

Release

York, Canada, [n. d. (regular updates)] (York University : Dept. of History)

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Apr 5, 2004.

Language

English

Includes

• Graduate Program (ca. 2/3 of dissertations projects listed focus on slavery)
• Studies in the History of the African Diaspora – Documents (SHADD)
• Educational Portal (More than 20 partially annotated links, most of which deal with the history of antislavery, fugitive slaves, and black communities in Canada.)
• Links (incl. extensive section on the Underground Railroad)
• Conference Announcements (Past and Present)
• African Diaspora Forum (maintained by graduate students)

Description

Research institute engaged in numerous collaborative initiatives and actively participating in UNESCO's Slave Route Project.

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West Africa (to 1945)

Part of

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLCSSRA)

Related Names

Davis, David Brion / Forbes, Robert

Related Inst.

Yale University
Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Release

New Haven, Conn., [ 1999] (Yale University)

Extent

2 pages (ca. 150 KiB)

Last Visit

Jun 3, 2003.

Language

English

Description

Bibliography to complement the author's monograph under the same title (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).

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Related Names

Beckle, Hilary Macdonald (taskforce member) et al.

Related Inst.

Anti-Slavery International
The British Council

Release

Paris, n. d. [last revised 2004] (UNESCO)

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Jul 9, 2003.

Technical Notes

The site replaces an older version at http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/asp/tst/index.htm still online and reported by search engines. — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.

Notes

In close cooperation with The Slave Route Project of UNESCO's Department of Intercultural Dialogue and Pluralism for a Culture of Peace. – See also the educational resource Breaking the Silence produced by Anti-Slavery International within the framework of the TST project.

Language

English | French (project description)

Includes

• Slave Voyages. Educational Resource for Teachers (2003, PDF download)
• Slave Voices. The Sound of Freedom (2004, primary sources, MS Word doc.)

Description

Project launched in 1998 to promote the commemoration and teaching of the transatlantic slave trade and to create intercultural networks of schools across the areas which were immediately affected by the trade. Targets secondary school students 14 to 16 years of age. Organizes symposia and workshops, youth encounters. Provides participating schools with educational resources, published brochures, flyers, and annual posters for the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (23 August). — Note that an Indian Ocean Slave Trade Education Project is currently under preparation.

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Part of

Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

Related Name

Lovejoy, Paul (dir.)

Release

York, Canada, (York University : Dept. of History)

Extent

1 page/frame (ca. 13.4 KiB)

Last Visit

Aug 20, 2003.

Language

English

Description

Brief project description.

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Related Names

Ndiaye, Boubacar Joseph (curator)

Release

Gorée, n. d. (iFrance (Commercial))

Extent

10 pages (ca. 800 KiB) : 1 table in CSV format, 12 illustr.

Last Visit

Jul 4, 2003.

Language

French

Description

Web presentation of the museum at Gorée Island (Senegal), which has become one of the prominent locations for the commemoration of the transatlantic slave trade on the West African coast.

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Related Inst.

Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou (Benin)
York University (Canada)
University of Rio de Janeiro

Release

Trier, © 2000 (Universität Trier)

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Jun 30, 2003.

Technical Notes

Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.

Notes

Advanced search features.

Language

English | German

Description

The database currently comprises more than 350 images in a European section, edited by Prof. Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff at the University of Trier (Germany), and a West African section, edited by Professor Joseph Adandé at the Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou (Benin). An inclusion of North and South American material is planned through cooperations with Prof. Paul Lovejoy, York University (Canada) and Prof. Mariza de Carvalho Soares, University of Rio de Janeiro. The site also presents some 30 excerpts from primary sources and an extensive bibliography of works largely not directly concerned with slavery. – Also note the German-language presentation of the project by Dorothea Merkel: "Memories of Slavery - Trauma and Representation in European and African art and visual culture 17th - 21st century".

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Part of

Courses and Syllabi / University of Connecticut : Dept. of History

Release

Storrs, Conn., spring 2001 (University of Connecticut)

Extent

1 page (ca. 10 KiB)

Last Visit

Sep 24, 2006.

Technical Notes

Previously at: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~wwwhist/syllabi_s01/H298sp2001.htm.

Language

English

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Part of

Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

Related Name

Lovejoy, Paul (dir.)

Release

York, Canada, (York University : Dept. of History)

Extent

1 page/frame (ca. 14.8 KiB)

Last Visit

Aug 20, 2003.

Language

English

Description

Brief project description.

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Part of

Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, vol. I, no. 1 / H-Net. Humanities Online

Related Names

Manning, Patrick (ed.) / Saillant, John (ed.) / Henderson-Whyte, Anthony (associate ed.)

Release

East Lansing, Mich., 1996 (Matrix/Michigan State University)

Extent

1 page (ca. 45 KiB)

Last Visit

Jul 2, 2003.

Technical Notes

Originally at: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~slavery/essays/esy9601law.html. – Withdrawn. – Record points to most recent version of article stored by the Internet Archive.

Notes

Includes bibliography.

Language

English

Description

[Abstract in the journal:] "This study reconsiders several controversies resulting from the historical debate over 'legitimate' trade–nineteenth-century exports of African commodities other than slaves–in West Africa. The controversies reviewed include the incidence of enslavement in West African warfare; whether slave prices fell as slave exports declined; whether slave trade and 'legitimate' trade were compatible or incompatible; the debate over A. G. Hopkins' thesis of a 'crisis of adaptation' among political leaders; the commercial transition and gender relations; and the relation between the commercial transition and European imperial conquest. Disaggregation, noting the variations in the transition among regions and over time, Law believes, will resolve some of these controversies. Promotion of 'legitimate' trade, linked to the suppression of the slave trade, became a way in which Europeans both opposed slavery and intervened more and more forcefully in Africa throughout the ninteenth century."

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Related Names

Cadiou, Richard et al.

Part of

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Information Society Division, and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Regional Office, Dakar, Senegal

Release

Paris, and Dakar, n. d.

Extent

36 pages (ca. 1.4 MiB) : 39 illustr. + 1 video file (ca. 10 min.) (based on Engl. version)

Last Visit

Apr 26, 2004.

Technical Notes

African mirror available.

Language

English | French

Includes

• Message of Abdoulaye Wade, President of the Republic of Sénégal
• Message of Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO
• Tour of the House of Slaves, guided by Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye (photo gallery, viedo)

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Related Inst.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Part of

Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

Related Name

Lovejoy, Paul (dir.)

Release

York, Canada, (York University : Dept. of History)

Extent

7 pages (ca. 180 KiB) : 7 illustr.

Last Visit

Aug 20, 2003.

Language

English

Includes

• Archival Inventory and Preservation of Primary Sources
• Biographical Database of Enslaved Africans
• Historical Atlas of Slavery
• Ports of the Nigerian Hinterland
• The Muslim Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Route
• Ethnic Identities in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora
• Linkages between the Diaspora and Africa

Description

Set of cooperative research projects affiliated with UNESCO's Slave Route Project.

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South Africa (to 1945)

Related Inst.

University of Munich, Germany

Part of

H-SAfrica / H-Net. Humanities Online

Release

East Lansing, Mich., posted May 8, 2004 (Matrix/Michigan State University)

Extent

1 page (ca. 19 KiB)

Last Visit

May 10, 2004.

Language

English

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Part of

B@tavia, a Virtual Factorij of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

Related Name

Deconinck, Stefan

Release

Ghent, Oct 2001 (University of Ghent)

Extent

25 pages : 3 PDF files

Last Visit

Sep 24, 2006.

Technical Notes

Originally at: http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/. – Moved to: http://batavia.ugent.be/slavery/. – Withdrawn. – Record points to list of files stored by the Internet Archive.

Language

English

Includes

• Demographic data
• Digest of the slave code of 1754
• Timeline
• References for school projects
• Bibliography of print publications
• Scholars specialising in Slave History @ the CAPE

Description

Part of a site created on occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch East India Company.

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Internal Slave Trade

Related Name

Camara, Abdoulaye (coord.)

Part of

International Commitee for Museums and Collections of Archeology and History (ICMAH)

Related Inst.

International Council of Museums (ICOM)

Release

Paris, Aug-Nov 2002

Extent

6 pages (ca. 160 KiB) : 2 MS Word docs., 1 illustr.

Last Visit

Jul 10, 2003.

Language

French

Description

The group was established in 1997 and adopted its present name in 1999. It seeks to help recovering the memory of the slave trade inventorizing sites and institutions involved in the trade, promoting access to archival collections, and assisting in exhibitions. Initially dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade, the group extended its focus to the transsaharan and Indian Ocean trades.

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