An informational text about the West African slave trade. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Online exhibition from the Mariners' Museum chronicles the plight of African slaves from the beginning of their journey when they are torn from their homeland all the way to the shores of the Americas. Caught up in the lucrative...

This site from the COCC provides a very large and informative website providing a historical summary plus links to many aspects of the slave trade. Detailed timeline describes the development of African civilizations from the 15th...

Take advantage of this thorough database covering all of the voyages which participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

PBS offers an excellent site with the description of some of the areas that supplied slaves.

Article and questions for discussion on the slave trade. Students read about how Europeans captured, transported, and sold African men, women and children into slavery.

This site has thousand of photos, drawings, and prints dealing with slavery, most of them dating from the period of Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.

The first public market in st. Augustine, Florida dates back to the era of slavery. Learn about the slave trade and the role it played in the city's early history as well as the modern civil rights movement.

Choose the correct answer for each of the nine multiple choice questions to evaluate your comprehension of African slave trade.

With a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, this article traces the history of Britain's large-scale involvement in the enslavement of Africans and the transatlantic slave trade.

Learn about some of the African history that led to the triangular slave trade. A colorful map on this page also highlights some of the important regions of Africa during the 1600s-1800s.

BBC News offers a short summary of the slave trade from Africa to the Americas. Gives statistics on the number of slaves (estimated at 10 to 28 million), where they went, and the cruel conditions of their enslavement.

A map showing the numbers and routes used in the slave trade.

The beginning of the Atlantic slave trade uprooted previously established societal norms in West Africa.

Encyclopedia article describing slavery in Colonial Georgia and the role that Savannah played in slave trade from 1755 to as late as 1858.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The African Trader or the Adventures of Harry Bayford by William H. G. Kingston (1888). It offers a mixture of sea travel, African slave trade, and the perils of...

A West African map and three accounts of the development of slave acquisition display the process and the brutality of the Atlantic slave trade.

From the transatlantic slave trade to today's New Great Migration, learn about the major African-American migrations and how those movements changed the course of American history.

An excellent overview of the African American experience in America beginning with West Africa during the slave trade, through emancipation and reconstruction, to "New beginnings."

A collection of primary source materials on African American history. Much of it is about slavery and racism. There are many slave narratives here, letters, essays, and biographical materials, and some of the names are well known ones,...

Twenty nine primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the qualities and conditions of African lives on the west coast before and during the European slave trade.

PBS offers a four-part series on the plight of African Americans from slave days to the end of the Civil War. Resources such as interactive maps, a Resource Bank, and Teacher's Guide are available.

This site is the web presence of "African Voices," a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History. It explores the "diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples and cultures." Includes art, texts, and...

A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "African Slave Trade."