International Studies 499: From Slavery to Freedom

This digital collection of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University offers first hand accounts from women who experienced slavery and its aftermath

African Origins contains information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic. Using the personal details of 91,491 Africans liberated by International Courts of Mixed Commission and British Vice Admiralty Courts, this resource makes possible new geographic, ethnic, and linguistic data on peoples captured in Africa and pulled into the slave trade. Through contributions to this website by Africans, members of the African Diaspora, and others, we hope to set in motion the rediscovery of the backgrounds of the millions of Africans captured and sold into slavery during suppression of transatlantic slave trading in the 19th century.

This transcribed and translated collection of documents offers information pertaining to law, diplomacy and history.

From the Library of Congress American Memory Project, this collection offers more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War.

"A repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery," supported by the Georgetown University Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation.

From the New York Public Library offers a searchable database of mages, maps and texts related to the transatlantic and domestic slave trade, runaway slaves, and emigration.

Information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.

Drawn from holdings of the John Carter Brown Library and the Rhode Island Historical Society, this site offers an example of "the triangle trade." It documents the voyage of a Rhode Island ship to Africa, where it loaded Africans, to the Caribbean, where the Africans where traded for sugar and molasses and then to Rhode Island, where the ingredients were distilled into rum and shipped to Africa.