Slave Trade
Slavery
Historical Evidence
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Historian
Slave Trade



Courtesy of Handler and Tuite, Virginia Foundations for the Humanities and Digital Media Lab, Univ. of Virginia

Use the template Summarizing Internet Resources when visiting links. Print it and make copies as needed. Visit as many links as you can in the time you are given or as your teacher directs. There are 25 links to review for this role.

First investigate the slave trade through text and images. In Slave Trade, there are 8 links to review.

QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT WHILE REVIEWING THESE LINKS

  1. Why did the slave trade begin and continue so long?
  2. What conditions did enslaved Africans endure?
  3. What places played important roles in the slave trade?

Research Links

These links will open in a new browser window. When you are finished researching a particular link, simply close the browser window that opened to return to this webpage.

  • The Middle Passage
    Features the stunning artwork of artist Tom Feelings. Click all the way through the pages to view the images and read the words.

  • Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
    Powerful group of historic images of the slave trade. On the home page of the site, click these buttons and review the images listed here. Click on each image to enlarge it.

    Slave Sales on the Coast
    #5-slave barracoon, Sierra Leone, 1840s
Slave Ships and the Middle Passage
#4-top deck of French slave ship, 19th century
#8-British slave ship Brookes, 1789
#12-hold of slave ship, 1845
#35-40

New World Slave Sales
#16-advertisement for slave sale, Charleston, South Carolina
#19-broadside advertising sale of newly arrived Africans, Charleston