Links and Resources

a) Institutions and Centres 

• The American Anti-Slavery Group
• Anti-Slavery International (ASI)
• Coalition against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan 
• Forschungsgruppe Antike Sklaverei (Mainz Academy)
• The Gilder Lehrman Center
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute
• GIREA (Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Esclavage dans l'Antiquité)
• Universität Trier, Postgraduate School 846. Slavery-Serfdom-Forced Labour. Unfree Conditions of Working and Living from Antiquity to the 20th Century
• Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques: Educational resources website dedicated to the history of St. Barthélemy (French West Indies) and focusing on the slave trade, slavery and abolition and their impact on this island of the Lesser Antilles.
• Database on the slave trade shipping for the whole Atlantic
• The University of Nottingham Postgraduate website

b) Electronic Archives and Projects

• Documenting the American South: North American slave narratives from the collection of the library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• The Avalon Project: Statutes of the United States concerning Slavery: Part of a Yale University Law School electronic archive of documents in law, history and diplomacy.
• Slave Movements during the 18th and 19th centuries: Electronic archive created by the University of Wisconson Library
• Slave Voices from the Special Collections: Exhibit Catalogue from the Library at Duke University
• Underground Railroad: Results of a US National Park Service study into how to best interpret and commemorate the Underground Railroad
• Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection: Electronic Archive of 19th Century anti-slavery pamphlets created at the University Library of Manchester
• The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: Although intended for a school-age audience, this site does contain numerous primary materials, including personal accounts, images etc.
• Holt Chronology of the History of Slavery,1619 to the end: Chronology assembled by a local history group in the Washington DC area
• Slavery and Society in Ancient Rome: Syllabus for a course at the University of Pennsylvania
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938: Library of Congress site.
• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record: Photograph collection made available by the University of Virginia
• Africans in America: Website to support public broadcasting television series.
• The Greek Manumissions Project: Boeotia: an electronic archive of manumission inscriptions from ancient Boeotia created by Professor Elizabeth Meyer, University of Virginia.
• Repertorium of Imperial Freedmen and Slaves: created by the late Paul Weaver.
  
  

c) Electronic Editions of Individual Texts

• Slavery in the Middle-East by B.L. Lewis: Electronic Edition
• Slavery in the Roman Empire by John Madden: Electronic Edition
• Thomas Jefferson on Slavery: Electronic Edition
• Thoughts upon Slavery by John Wesley (1774): Electronic Edition
• Slavery in the Roman Republic - Sourcebook: Text excerpts and an historical overview prepared at Fordham University

d) Further Links and Discussion Boards

• "Lest we forget": List of general links
• Slavery, Slaves and Freedmen in South Carolina History: List of links specific to South Carolina
• Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Discussion board and resources provided by H-Slavery (a part of H-Net)
• Cocoa and child slavery: Activist site

e) Publishers and other Links

• Slavery and Abolition: Link to publisher's record for this journal, including table of contents for all issues
• The Greenwood Slave Narratives: Link to publisher's description of electronic resource of primary and secondary material.

Contact details:

Co-Directors:

Professor Dick Geary
School of History
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD UK
Tel: 0115 9515935
email: dick.geary@nottingham.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Hodkinson
Department of Classics
School of Humanities
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD UK
Tel: 0115 9514806
email: stephen.hodkinson@nottingham.ac.uk