Expansion of Slavery -- Grade 08 -- Internet Resources
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Slavery
 

Spartacus Schoolnet

Religion and Slavery
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASreligion.htm

A brief description of the religious practices of slaves in the American South and the religious restrictions they encountered. Includes several first-person accounts of the horrors of slavery.

 

Plantation System
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASplantation.htm

Provides a historical description of the development of the plantation system in America.

 

Slave Markets
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASauctions.htm
This website contains a general description of slavery and slave markets. It also has excerpts from three primary sources, William Wells Brown, Solomon Northrup and Henry Bibb on conditions in slave prisons and descriptions of slave auctions.

The Middle Passage c1600 - 1800
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p277.html
This website contains pictures and descriptions of the Middle Passage voyage.
 

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
The thousand images in this collection have been selected as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public.

Understanding Slavery
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery/

This site is from Discovery Communications. "Explore the ways that slavery has been woven into the fabric of societies in America and around the world." Gives the history of slavery, a biography on a man who was a slave and shows you pictures and a story of a slave auction.

Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/j1.html
A most compelling and interactive site. Here you will take a virtual tour from being a slave to freedom. The tour allows you to make decisions as to what you would do in a given situation. Most fascinating!

American Colonization Society
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1521.html
Learn about the views of the American Colonization Society (ACS) and about their efforts to send free blacks to Liberia. This website briefly overviews how the ACS started and how their efforts lead to the emigration of thousands.

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