Green River LibGuides: African American History: The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Featured Resources

Click on the links below, some from the Holman Library's databases, and others from online, to learn more about this topic.

Library of Congress: Atlantic Slave Trade
Article and resources from a research guide at the Library of Congress website, for "Colonies in America: Commerce, Business, and the Economy"
SlaveVoyages
"The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas"
Voyage of the Echo: The Trials of an Illegal Trans-Atlantic Slave Ship
From the Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston - this "online exhibition examines the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade through the voyage and capture of the slave ship Echo in 1858. "
Hidden Voices: Enslaved Women in the Lowcountry and U.S. South
From the Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston - this exhibit focuses "on the experiences of enslaved women in the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry in both rural and urban contexts, the exhibit examines African American women’s labor, interconnected relationships, and cultural practices. It reveals the types of violence they were subjected to as well as the joys and triumphs they created for themselves"
Voyage of the Sally
From Brown University, search records from this collection looking at Slave trading voyages of the 1764 ship Sally

Bittersweet: Sugar, Slavery, Empire and Consumerism in the Atlantic World
An episode of Dig: A History Podcast
Rebel Slaves and Resistance in the Revolutionary Caribbean
An episode of Dig: A History Podcast
Slave Codes, Black Codes & Jim Crow: Codifying the Color Line
An episode of Dig: A History Podcast
1619 (New York Times Podcast)
"1619 is a New York Times audio series, hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones, that examines the long shadow of American slavery. "