Resources on the Trans-Atlantic Human Trade in Sapelo Sound, Georgia

Trans-Atlantic Voyages of Captive Africans to Sapelo Sound | Open Tour

Sapelo Sound, Georgia – Annotated Bibliography

Photo Archive – Georgia

Disclaimer:

The content of these documents provides details of the Middle Passage, specific vessels transporting captive Africans, the arrival of these people, and the ubiquity of slavery. The following resources include racist language as well as references to violence, dehumanization, and the enslavement of Africans. The language contained in the following documents may be upsetting to some readers.

Books and Literature

The Testimony of Francisco de Chicora.
Haring, Clarence Henry. The Spanish Empire in America. Vol. 1.
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient
Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean
The Spanish Empire in America: Haring, Clarence Henry, 1885-1960

Maps

Map of Tiera De Ayllon, explored by Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon with the guidance of Francisco de Chicora, an Indigenous man taken captive

Videos

Further Reading

To the Shores of Distant Death: The Failed Colony of San Miguel De Gualdape

Low Country Gullah Culture Special Resource Study

Before 1619, there was 1526: The mystery of the first enslaved Africans in what became the United States

Chicoras Host Local Tribes to Celebrate Heritage

The Role of Extreme Cold in the Failure of the San Miguel de Gualdape Colony

“Archaeology in a Geechee Graveyard.” Southeastern Archaeology.