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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

Although this is promoted as a teachers' guide, this page offers a little history and a lot of project ideas related to triangular trade that could be very helpful to students as well.

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

This section of a chapter on "The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492" takes a look at the major West African empires and discusses the roles of Islam and Europe in the slave trade.

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.

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.

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

Lesson with article and questions for discussion on the experience of African-Americans beginning with the slave trade.

Approximately 6 million Africans were taken as slaves to the Americas. Follow the steps of the Triangular Slave Trade with an accompanying map. The map shows which goods and services were traded between the countries.

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.