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1. The Public Broadcasting system maintains one of the best online collections of documents, images, and historical commentary on slavery and the slave trade. Entitled Africans in America, the site covers the full range of African American history in North America and offers a variety of lesson plans and suggestions for teachers.

2.  Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive also provides extensive online resources, including many documents and images. It also offers valuable links to other related sites.

3. The University of Virginia offers a course in e-texts that features an excellent database of documents such as Bills of sale, advertisements for runaways, etc.

4. Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
The Data and Program Library Service at the University of Wisconsin maintains an on-line archive of data relating to the slave trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Information at the site is available on the following topics:

  • Records of Slave Ship Movement Between Africa and the Americas, 1817-1843
  • Slave Ships of Eighteenth Century France, 1748-1756, 1763-1792
  • Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1795-1811
  • Virginia Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1727-1769
  • English Slave Trade, 1791-1799 (House of Lords Survey)
  • Angola Slave Trade in the Eighteenth-Century, 1723-1771
  • Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-1830
  • Internal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1852
  • Slave Trade to Havana, Cuba, 1790-1820
  • Nantes Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century, 1711-1791
  • Slave Trade to Jamaica, 1782-1788, 1805-1808