History of the slave trade

Online resources

The following websites related to the International Slavery Museum may be of interest.

Learning and research

• Slaves' Stories - follow four Africans on their harrowing journeys into slavery with our interactive online feature
• Understanding Slavery - a free online teaching resource
• Centre for the Study of International Slavery - a new slavery research centre founded by the University of Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool, with details of upcoming lectures, seminars, and workshops
• Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600 - 1807 - this complex relationship is explored, with online access to all of the key documents in the archives including the 1807 Act and slave trade petitions. The learning section includes lesson plans and tools for creating interactive resources
• The Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE)
• The African-American Mosaic - a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• B Davis Scwartz Memorial Library - online resources on slavery
• H-Slavery Discussion Network - studies in the world history of slavery, abolition and emancipation
• Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture - part of the New York Public Library
• African-American History - a selection of learning activities on the internet
• New York Historical Society - features on slavery and its impact on the people, landscape, institutions and economy of New York City
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
• The Equiano Project - celebrating the life and times of the 18th century writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, with the Equiano Society and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
• Le Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques - dedicated to the history of St Bartholomew, focusing on the slave trade, slavery, abolition and their impact on this island of the Lesser Antilles. This website is in French with some parts in English and some original Swedish versions of documents.

Events

• Africa Oyé - the UK's largest free celebration of African music and culture, held in Liverpool each June. Oyé 09 takes place on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June, 12.30-9.30pm in Sefton Park
• Slavery Remembrance Day - a commemoration and celebration of the end of slavery, held in Liverpool on 23 August each year
• Liverpool Black History Month Group - events and activities in Liverpool for Black History Month, held every October in Britain
• Black History Month - events and activities across the UK for Black History Month
• Abolition 200 - UK events to commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in 2007
• Abolition 200 at Bristol
• Freedom Schooner Amistad - a recreation of the famous slave ship which visited Liverpool from 20 to 26 August 2007 as part of a tranastlantic voyage retracing the slave triangle

Museums and places of interest

• London, Sugar and Slavery - a new permanent gallery at the Museum in Docklands in London
• Wilberforce House Museum, Hull - the birthplace of slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce
• The Africa Centre - the heart of Africa in the heart of London
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol
• Bristol City Museums
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Barbados Museum and Historical Society
• The Anacostia Community Museum - the Smithsonian Institution's museum of African American history and culture
• The African American Museum in Philadelphia
• The Mariner's Museum - the largest maritime museum in North America
• A slave ship speaks - the wreck of the Henrietta Marie - a 17th century slave ship at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida
• Nantes History Museum
• Transatlantic Slavery gallery - the former award-winning gallery at Merseyside Maritime Museum

Contemporary slavery

• Anti-Slavery International - founded in 1839, Anti-Slavery International is the oldest international human rights organisation in the world and works to eradicate all forms of slavery internationally
• Not For Sale Campaign - combines technology, intellectual capital, abolitionist groups and a growing network of individuals, joined together, with the aim of ending slavery in their lifetime
• Stop the Traffik - a growing global coalition working together to fight against people trafficking. Stop The Traffik are currently collecting online declarations from people who want to see more done to stop people trafficking and are planning to deliver a global declaration of 1 million signatures to the UN in February 2008.
• Amnesty International - is an organization that campaigns to protect human rights worldwide. Their work involves protecting victims of trafficking in the UK, as part of the campaign to stop violence against women.
• UKHTC - the UK Human Trafficking Centre
• CHASTE - Churches Against Sex Trafficking in Europe
• Cargo - the fight for freedom in music, words, dance and images - a project celebrating the work of the abolitionists and raising awareness of the extent of contemporary slavery

Further information

• Black history
• Island of Goree, Senegal - a virtual visit
• UNESCO Slave Route Project
• Breaking the silence - a transatlantic slave trade education project
• Dr Molefi Kete Asante - find out more about Dr Asante, who gave the memorial lecture for Slavery Remembrance Day 2007. A professor at the department of African American Studies at Temple University, he is a world renowned expert on African history who has published more scholarly books than any contemporary African author.