African Diaspora Archaeology Network and
The African-American Migration Experience
Kanuri Studies Association
African Legacy: Helping Set The Record Straight About Africa
Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA)
The African Studies Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
A-Z of African Studies on the Internet
Africa South of Sahara (Stanford University)
História do Brasil
The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)
|Sites of Interest|
Americans And National Identities In Central America
An interdisciplinary, multinational research program to reconceptualize and document, both visually and textually, the history of people of African descent in Central America.
African Canadian On-Line
The Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada provides information on African Canadian artists and their work and links to other Canadian resources on the web.
African Diaspora-Latin American Resources
The Latin American Network Information Center's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region.
African Digital Library - West African Resources
Multi-media digital library of West African sources in multiple languages. Michigan State University (MSU), including H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, the African Studies Center, and the MSU Library, and in Dakar, Senegal, the Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) and the
West African Research Center (WARC).
AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall's Louisiana Slave Database and Louisiana Free Database 1719-1820, explanations of how these were created, how to use and download them, a search engine with which to find and link masters and slaves, including descriptions of individuals, references to African ethnicities, images of original documents, and graphs generated by SPSS.
American Memory - Library of Congress
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves, collected in the 1930s under the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Documenting the American South, North American Slave Narratives
North American slave narratives from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the narratives of fugitive and former slaves in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920.
Ecole du Patrimoine Africain
LEPA est un établissement universitaire de formation et de recherche spécialisé de 2ème cycle dans la conservation et la médiation du patrimoine culturel mobilier et immobilier à vocation régionale.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition
The Center is part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction.
Images of Slavery
Digital images of slavery, organized into a database at the Universität Trier, Germany, in its program on Art History (Kunstgeschichte)
International Group for the Recovery and Dissemination of the Slave Texts of Latin and Carribean Americas
An international organization of scholars and artists to recover, research, publish, and otherwise disseminate the slave texts of Latin America and the Caribbean and to produce scholarly, popular and educational programs inspired in these texts The ultimate objective is to unite the corpus of all the slave expression of all the Americas. The focus on Latin America, at this point of the mission, is to catch up with the considerably more developed collection and research of the North American slave writings and expressions. Contact Professor Robert Krueger at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
A media database compiled by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L Tulte at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world.
Slave Runaway Advertisements
Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers. Compiled by Professor Thomas Costa, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia's College at Wise
UNESCO Slave Route Project
The "Slave Route", is an Intercultural project administered, co-ordinated and monitored by the UNESCO Department of Intercultural Dialogue and Pluralism for a Culture of Peace.
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora
Established in 2001 through the generous gifts of David C. Driskell, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Art, and a community of artists, scholars, and friends associated with the University of Maryland, the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora is a venue for the exploration of the presence of Africa and the African diaspora in modern culture.
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Africans in America: Americas Journey Through Slavery
The companion site to the PBS documentary explores the odyssey of African slaves in America, from the arrival of Europeans in Africa to the American Civil War.
Buxton National Historic Site & Museum
Buxton National Historic Site & Museum, the location of the historic Buxton (Elgin) Settlement - A Cultural Landscape of the Underground Railroad, North Buxton, Ontario, Canada
This site recounts the 1839 rebellion of African slaves who commandeered their captors ship off the Cuban coast, stood trial before the U.S. Supreme Court, and later returned to Africa.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Find current news, recent historical research, video clips, links and other resources on this site maintained by a museum and education center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Freedom Trail - Underground Railroad
This website is a collection of stories and primary sources (including pictures, newspaper articles,
letters, and diaries) about the underground railway in Oswego County.
Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives
Read the accounts of three escaped slaves as told to Benjamin Drew, a Boston abolitionist who traveled through Canada in the 1850s.
The Underground Railroad in Canada (Parks Canada)
List of places and persons associated with Underground Railroad (UGRR), designated of national historic significance by the Government of Canada.
The Underground Railroad in Franklin County
Pro- and antislavery forces converged in this Virginia county on the Mason-Dixon Line.
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
The Institute focuses on the history and culture of early North America to approximately 1815, including the Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe, and Africa, insofar as the study of the histories and cultures of these places is relevant to mainland North America
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
The Institute is dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of African Americans.
The William Still Underground Railroad Foundation, Inc.
Information about William Still, a leader of the Underground Railroad.
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Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Centro de Estudos Africanos, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Estudos sobre Africa e do Desenvolvimento, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico, Madeira, Portugal
Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos, Universidade Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
LIPHIS Laboratório Interdisciplinar de pesquisa em História Social
Núcleo de Estudos em História Demográfica, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
publishes on-line its Boletim de História Demográfica, which carries research information and articles on the demography of slavery in Brazil. Many of the articles are downloadable.
of History, York University, Toronto, Canada
Fax: (416) 650-8173