Maps
Web Links
Slave Societies Digital Archive – https://slavesocieties.org
Slave Voyages – https://www.slavevoyages.org/
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Data Base – https://slavevoyages.org/voyages/database
Enslaved.org – a hub for data collections from universities, museums, archives and historical societies throughout the Diaspora managed by the MATRIX Center at Michigan State University. It is available to the general public, scholars and teachers (K-12)
Recommended Books
Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Manu Herbstein
American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, Theodore Dwight Weld
Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity and Community, Eviator Zerubavel
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, David Eltis and David Richardson
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions, Jane Landers
The Atlantic Slave Trade, Herbert S. Klein
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Cargo, Zora Neale Hurston
Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation, Nicholas Guyatt
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America, Martha S. Jones
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Paul Gilroy
Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518-1865, Daniel P. Mannix
Black Florida, Jane Landers
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage, “The Slave Ship Dance,” Genevieve Fabre
Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion, Peter H. Wood
The Black Population in Mexico, Aguirre Beltran
Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-century New England, William Dillon Piersen
The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
Citizens Creek, Lalita Tademy
The Coming: A Novel, Daniel Black
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, Gerald Horne
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope, Jonathan M. Bryant
Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860, Joanne Pope Melish
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade, William St Clair
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, Sylviane A. Diouf
Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder
A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England, Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Exchanging Our Country Masks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South, Michael Gomez
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist
Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, Afua Cooper
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith, June 2021
The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic: 1500-2000, edited by Beatriz G. Mamigonian and Karen Racine
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs
The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage, John Harr
The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory, Anne Farrow
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Saidiya Hartman
The Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo, Tom Feelings
Middle Passages: African America Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005, James Campbell
Motives of Honor, Pleasure and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763, Lorena Walsh
Negro President, Gary Wills
Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of the Runaway Slave Ona Judge, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America, Wendy Warren
The Negro in Colonial New England, Lorenzo Green
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, Thavolia Glymph
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Howard Zinn
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution: 1710-1823, David Brian Davis
Red River, Lalita Tademy
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transitional ad Comparative History, Ana Lucia Araujo
Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-3, Steven L. Danver
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to America, Stephanie E. Smallwood
Sex and Racism in America, Calvin C. Hernton
Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution, Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen
The Slave Ship: A Human History, Marcus Rediker
The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of Africatown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors, Natalie S. Robertson
Slave Voices: The Sounds of Freedom, edited by Hilary McD. Beckles and Verene Shephard (U.W.I.), UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, Sowande’ M. Mustakeem
Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A. Blackman
Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, Sylviane A. Diouf
Slavery’s Trail of Tears: Retracing America’s Forgotten Migration – The Journey of a Million African-Americans from the Tobacco to the Cotton South, Edward Ball
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market, Walter Johnson
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyrany of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, James W. Loewen
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence I Ancient America, Ivan Van Sertima
They Were Good Soldiers: African Americas Serving I the Continental Army, 1775-1783, John U. Rees
There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America, Vincent Harding
Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era, Arthur Pierre Middleton
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins
Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean, Valerie Loichot
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg
The World They Made Together: Black ad White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Mechal Sobel
Young People’s Books
There is a website that we recommend you visit that has books for young people as well as information on teaching social justice and civil rights history: socialjusticebooks.org. It is a Teaching for Change Project that covers a broad spectrum of issues.
The Day You Begin, Jacqueline Woodson
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Debbie Reese
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything America History Textbooks Get Wrong (Yong Readers Edition), James W. Loewen
Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge: Young Readers Edition, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Kathleen VanCleve
Never Forgotten, Patricia C. McKissack, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (children’s book)
Stamped Racism: Antiracism and You, Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
This Place: 150 Years Retold, Katen Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu
The Untold History of the United States, Volume 1: Young Readers Edition 1898-1945
We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, Jabari Asim
A Young People’s History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror, Howard Zinn, Rebecca Stefoff
Materials for Teachers
Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark: Challenging Dominant Narratives in K-12 Curriculum, Alison Schmitke, Lelani Sabzahain, Jeff Edmundson
Rethinking Ethnic Studies, Edited by Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
The 1619 Project Curriculum, pulitzercenter.org
Teaching with Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/teaching
Video and Film Links
Africans in America – PBS Series
An Ocean in My Bones – Jocelyn Davis [YouTube Video] – The Clotilda Descendants Association hosted the fourth annual Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival on February 12, 2022.
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes – You Tube
Daughters of the Dust
Enslaved 50 Years after Slave Trade Outlawed. Their Descendants Want to Save Their Town. wwltv.com/article/news/regional/the-last-of-the=enslaved/
“What Juneteenth tells us about the value of black life in America” washingtonpost.com/video/descendants/what-juneteenth/2020/06/19
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Project (Trimble)
Twelve Years a Slave