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.

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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.

Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown and Angelina Grimké turned a despised fringe movement against chattel slavery into a force that literally changed the nation.

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

"...a four-part series documenting the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, it looks at slavery as an integral part of a developing nation, challenging the long held notion that slavery was exclusively a Southern enterprise. At the same time, by focusing on the remarkable stories of individual slaves, it offers new perspectives on the slave experience and testifies to the active role that Africans and African Americans took in surviving their bondage and shaping their own lives."