Slavery and Abolition: Web Links

Africans in America

Africans in America is “America’s journey through slavery”, provided by Boston’s WGBH broadcasting network for PBS online. The site includes pages of images, documents, stories, biographies and commentaries. A chapter headed Olaudah Equiano includes extracts from his autobiography, and comments about his life and the impact of his work.

Breaking the Silence

Extensive educational website from the global anti-slavery organisation aimed at teachers and students, covering the transatlantic slave trade.

Bristol Slavery

Educational resource put together as part of Channel 4’s Origination project celebrating immigrant communities in present-day Britain. The site provides an insight into the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century triangular slave trade, and Bristol’s role in that trade.

British Anti-Slavery

Pages from the BBC’s extensive history content, linking to sections about specific aspects of slavery and individuals associated with abolition.

Olaudah Equiano: An interesting narrative

Full text of Equiano’s 1789 autobiography, published on the Project Gutenberg site: “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by himself”.

Port Cities UK

Port Cities is an extensive website packed with information about five English ports and the people who lived and worked in them, including histories and origins. Three of the ports featured are heavily connected with the triangular slave trade: the site includes sections headed London and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery; and Liverpool - the Slave Trade.

Slavery, abolition and emancipation

Pages from the website of Dr Brycchan Carey, a Reader in English Literature at Kingston University, London researching the cultures of slavery and abolition. Sections include biographies, poems, timelines, and comprehensive information about and writings of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano.

Slaves’ stories

Website from Liverpool Museums showing interactive lives and journeys of four slaves, from being taken in Africa and then throughout their subsequent experiences and ordeals.

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Learn more about slavery and abolition and the Plymouth connection:

John Hawkins

Slave Trade Triangle

Abolition

Conclusion

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Slavery and abolition web links