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Contemporary Slavery
Up one levelSlavery scholarship and contemporary antislavery literature emerge continually. While the Antislavery Literature Project primarily concerns narratives of historical slavery, this section also provides selected materials on contemporary slavery and its study. The purpose of a resource list that contains both historical and contemporary materials is to emphasize the continuity of slavery and its different forms.
Abolition of Slavery in Spain
Site commemorating the 120th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Spain; provides Spanish-language resources on antislavery history.
Abraham Lincoln Net
The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project at Northern Illinois University contains a wide array of digital materials, many of them relating to slavery. The site includes teaching plans and streaming video presentations; an excellent teaching resource.
Amistad Research Center
Located at Tulane University and named in honor of the slave ship revolt, the Center is one of the largest research centers in African American history.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
A collection of a thousand digital images related to the slave trade and slavery, assembled by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite, Jr. Sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library.
Africa and Slavery - African History on the Internet
Electronic resource list maintained at Stanford University.
Africa Focus
University of Wisconsin project in Africana digitization; contains limited antislavery materials.
AfriGeneas - African American and African Ancestored Genealogy
Extensive website on African American genealogy, with information on slave records and a searchable runaway slave advertisement feature.
Africana Heritage
University of South Florida project to document the lives of former slaves and their descendants.
Been Here So Long: Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives
Electronic education project in the slave narratives compiled by the Federal Writers Project, produced by the New Deal Network.
Afrolumens Project
Online county-level database on slavery in central Pennsylvania, with many more historical resources. Excellent site.
African American Mosaic
A Library of Congress guide for studying black history and culture. Topics include colonization and Liberia, abolitionists and slavery, western migration and homesteading, and ex-slave narratives.
Africans in America
Legacy website of a 1998 PBS documentary, 'Africans in America.' Contains educational information on history of slavery.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy: 1719-1820
Massive database on over 100,000 African American slaves in Louisiana during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Website produced by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, the Center for the Public Domain, and University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810
Table of contents and introductory essay from James Basker's anthology of antislavery poems (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002).
American Anti-slavery Group
A Boston-based group active in present-day antislavery work. Website oriented towards current news in the field, with special attention to Sudan.
Amistad: Seeking Freedom in Connecticut
A National Park Service site providing information on the sites in Connecticut associated with the Amistad slave ship revolt.
Anti-Slavery International
Founded in 1839, Anti-slavery International is one of the oldest human rights organizations. Its annual reviews and reports provide authoritative information on contemporary slavery issues. An excellent website with up-to-date information.
'Bury Me in a Free Land'
Online exhibit concerning the abolitionist movement in Indiana, organized by Gwendolyn Crenshaw and the Indiana Historical Bureau. An excellent exhibit with extensive primary documentation.
Amistad Trial Home Page
University of Missouri - Kansas City law school website with full materials on the Amistad case.
Beneath the Underground: The Flight to Freedom and Communities in Antebellum Maryland
A digital project of the Maryland State Archives to document the Underground Railroad, with case studies and interactive materials.
Black History at Harper's Weekly, 1857-1874
Reports on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, originally published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
Break the Chain Campaign
A District of Columbia-based campaign on issues of enslaved domestic labor in the United States.
Beyond Face Value
An online exhibit on the depiction of slaves on Confederate currency. A project of the US Civil War Center at Louisiana State University.
BBC World Service - Slavery Today Programme
British Broadcasting Corporation program providing stories from contemporary slavery; broadcast 2005 and available in audio files.
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from Federal Writers' Project
Library of Congress site. Presents 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former slaves.