Slavery and the Slave Trade

A project of Hudson River Valley Heritage, Historic Huguenot Street and the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council

Online version of a major exhibition on slavery in New York City, mounted by the New-York Historical Society in 2005.

Opened August 2007, the ISM is the only museum of its kind to look at aspects of historical and contemporary slavery and serves as an international hub for resources on human rights issues.

Note: Introduction requires Adobe Flash to display

Includes discussion of the toll of sugar production on the lives of the enslaved Africans forced to work the cane fields and sugar mills of the Caribbean basin.

A local community in Massachusetts recognizes its historical links to slavery and the slave trade

Online exhibit that reconstructs the life of Fortune, a slave living in 18th-century Waterbury, Connecticut, from his skeleton and other evidence.

Information on an unincorporated village set up by former slaves and free people of color

Allows researchers to view and compare archaeological assemblages and architectural plans from different archeological sites in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean during the Colonial and Ante-Bellum Periods. Analyze the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants at unprecedented levels of detail. DAACS is a community resource, conceived and maintained in the Department of Archaeology at Monticello, in collaboration with research institutions and archaeologists working throughout the Atlantic World.