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8 entries under this heading — Last update Jan 28, 2008
8 entries under this heading — Last update Jan 28, 2008
Images & Sound Recordings
- Part of
- University of Virginia Library : Robertson Media Center Digital Media Lab
- Related Inst.
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
- Release
- Charlottesville, last update Aug 2006 (University of Virginia)
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Sep 25, 2006.
- Technical Notes
- Pictures in JPEG (2 resolutions) and GIF formats (thumbnails).
- Notes
- Includes keyword search.
- Language
- English
- Description
- Site presenting some 1,200 pictures. Provides information identifying the individual pieces and indicates their present location and the time of origin where known. The compilers do not interprete or contextualize the items. – The collection is divided into 18 section. Recent additions have expanded "coverage of West Africa, the Atlantic crossing, the Hispanic areas of South and Central America, and the Hispanic Caribbean, including Cuba." – Future efforts will concentrate on correcting errors.
- Related Names
- Yetman, Norman R. (auth.) / Botkin, Benjamin A. (comp.)
- Related Inst.
- Library of Congress : Manuscript Division / Library of Congress : Prints and Photographs Division
- Part of
- American Memory / Library of Congress
- Release
- Washington, D. C., Mar 2001
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Jun 17, 2003.
- Technical Notes
- Scanned page images (GIF and TIFF formats) of original typoscripts. Full text of the narratives (obtained through OCR, recognition partially corrected) may be searched cannot be viewed. Search results may be incorrect or incomplete due to errors resulting from the OCR process and due to the inconsistent transcription of African-American dialect in the primary documents. — Only partially covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine (introductory material and indexes searchable).
- Notes
- Electronic reproduction of a 17-volume collection compiled shortly after the collection of the narratives (first published under the title 'Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.' Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1941). Also presents some 500 photographs, 40 percent of which are published here for the first time. – Narratives may be browsed by state, by narrator, and by volume of the original compilation.
- Language
- English
- Includes
-
- Yetman, Norman R.: An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives
- Voices and Faces from the Collection
- Administrative sources documenting the history of the collection
- Description
- More than 2,000 interviews with surviving former slaves ranging in age from some 70 to more than 100 years. – Not all of the interviews collected by the State Writers' Projects were submitted to the coordinators at the Library of Congress, some evidence suggesting systematic tampering. (See the introduction by Ken Lawrence to Mississippi interviews not included in the 'Born in Slavery' collection, first published in 1977.) – See also the reviews of 'Born in Slavery' by Gayla Koerting and by Claus K. Meyer available at the Public History Resource Center.
- Part of
- The Mariners' Museum
- Related Inst.
-
South Street Seaport Museum
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside (Liverpool, England) - Release
- Newport News, Va., c 2002
- Extent
- 167 pages (ca. 9.8 MiB) : 158 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Oct 2, 2006.
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Description
- Online exhibition hosted by "North America's largest maritime museum," a private institution founded in 1930. – The pages were originally created to accompany a travelling exhibition of the same title that was shown at the Mariners' Museum from May through December 2002. The presentation consists of a series of sequentially linked pages featuring introductory texts by the curators, excerpts from primary sources, historical images, and modern photographs of historical sites. Some of the sections suggest hands-on activities for students of grades 3-12.
- Related Inst.
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Release
- Mystic Seaport, Conn., © 1997
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Apr 26, 2004.
- Notes
- Includes sitemap and local search (also covering full text of primary documents).
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Description
- The very rich site presents the Amistad court case, the itinerary of the Africans at its center, and the public discussion it generated. The incident is used to examine many of the wider issues relating to slavery in the antebellum United States. – The texts introducing and discussing the case are accompanied by historical illustrations and linked to source material, a wide selection of which is available online from the site's library section. — The Mystic Seaport Museum houses a replica of the Amistad .
- Related Inst.
- Library of Congress : Prints and Photographs Division
- Part of
- Library of Congress
- Release
- Washington, D. C., Jan 2004
- Extent
- 34 pages (ca. 51 MiB) : 32 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Aug 19, 2003.
- Technical Notes
- Images available in low and high resolutions (JPEG and TIFF formats).
- Notes
- Accompanied by searchable bibliographic records including short descriptions.
- Language
- English
- 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".
- Part of
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Den norske UNESCO-kommisjonen
- Release
- Oslo, n. d. [ 2000 (?)][start page stamped Jan 2004]
- Extent
- 50 pages (ca. 2.9 MiB) : 88 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Language
- English
- Includes
-
- The Final Journey 1767-1768
- The Wreck Site
- Hidden in the Wreck
- The Danish-Norwegian Slave Trade
- The Slaves on Board
- The Fredensborg Exhibition
- Monuments and Sites in Norway,
- … in Ghana,
- … and in St. Croix
- Description
- Presents the history of a Danish-Norwegian slaver that sunk off the coast Norway upon her return from the West Indies in December 1768. The wreck of the ship was discovered in the 1970s.
- Related Inst.
- Library of Congress : American Folklife Center
- Part of
- American Memory / Library of Congress
- Release
- Washington, D. C., Jan 2004
- Extent
- n/a
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Technical Notes
- Sound recordings available in Real Player and MP 3 formats. — Only partially covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine (introductory material and indexes searchable). — Originally at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/.
- Notes
- Recordings accompanied by transcriptions. Includes search of bibliogr. records and full text. Site may be browsed by –] name, subject, and places.
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Description
- Testimony of 23 slaves from 9 Southern states collected between 1932 and 1975. The recordings have a combined length of more than 7 hours. The site makes all recordings of interviews with former slaves at the American Folklife Center available online.
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