- Amistad@
Learn about Amistad Mutiny, the historical rebellion of slaves aboard the Spanish schooner Amistad in 1839. Sites feature historical background, the vessel, the U.S. Supreme Court case, trial records and judgment, news accounts, biographical sketches, the legacy, and movie based on the 19th century rebellion at sea which became one of the milestones in the American history of abolition.
dir.yahoo.com/.../19th_Century/Amistad_Revolt
- Pictorial: The Middle Passage
Descriptions and images of the Atlantic slave trade from Juneteenth.com.
www.juneteenth.com/middlep.htm
- Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Listing important events from 1502 to 1841.
amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/atlantic.slave.trade.html
- Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Hundreds of images collected by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.
hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery
- Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign (1853)
Henry Carey warns "there can be no freedom of trade where there is no freedom of man."
odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1851-1875/carey/slavexx.htm
- Atlantic Slave Trade - Demographic Simulation
Attempting to get an educated guess of the pre-slave trade African population through a demographic simulation.
www.whc.neu.edu/afrintro.htm
- Freedom
A classroom/teacher resource about Britain and the transatlantic slave trade, courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
www.nmm.ac.uk/freedom
- Virtual Visit of Gor?e Island House of Slaves
Includes video, photos, and descriptions of the House of Slaves, where men, women, and children were kept before being sold and shipped.
webworld.unesco.org/goree
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