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• The Terrible Transformation - Numerous articles tracing the origins of American slavery from the European incursion into Africa to mid 18th century America, maps, timelines, and illustrations.

  Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Center at Yale University dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction. http://www.yale.edu/glc/

  Ignatius Sancho: African Man of Letters A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of an 18th century slave, and his achievements in London; includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, music, and bibliography, http://www.brycchancarey.com/sancho/

  Olaudah Equiano Excerpts from Equiano's slave autobiography, a best-seller of the 18th century that had a major impact on English and American public opinion. http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/Equiano.html

  Quobna Ottobah Cugoano :: a Former Slave Speaks Out An introduction to the author of the first substantial anti-slavery text written in English by an African. Includes a biography, extracts from his writing, images, links, and a bibliography. http://www.brycchancarey.com/cugoano/

  Race and Slavery in the Middle East Two chapters on the roots of African slavery, specifically in the Middle eastern region, by Bernard Lewis, Oxford University Press. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/lewis1.html

  The Roots of American Slavery Bibliographical essay by Philip J. Schwarz, Virginia Commonwealth University. http://www.stratfordhall.org/schwarz.html

  Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries This site provides access to raw data and documentation on a variety of slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/

  Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation Resources including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings. http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/

  Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies Journal covering demographic, social, economic, historical and psychological aspects of slavery and its eradication from the ancient period to the present. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0144039x.asp