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Captive Passage
has been made
possible in part by:
National Endowment For The Humanities
Recognition of
additional sponsors
for this exhibition
can be found by
clicking on
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This Web site
was written by:

Mark Arduini
Bill Cogar
Kim Gove
Anna Holloway
Julia Hotton
Anne Marie Millar
Tracey Neikirk
David Rieger
Rhonda Todd
Barbara Wright
Randy Wyatt

Special thanks to
Joan Allison
for her assistance
in compiling
the Bibliography.

 

The African-American Mosaic
http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/ exhibits/african/intro.html
A comprehensive site that highlights the extensive African-American collections held by the Library of Congress.

African-American Perspectives
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ ammem/aap/
Audio clips, samples of text, and historical facts relating to pamphlets written by African-American authors between 1818 and 1907.

Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
The companion site to the series, offering hundreds of primary source documents, scholarly essays, and stories from the series.

American Memory
http://rs6.loc.gov/
An array of historical collections and primary source and archival history related to American culture and history, from the Library of Congress.

American Slave Narratives
http://xroads. virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/index.html
Narratives of former slaves (documented 1936-1938) of the 19thcentury.

Archiving Early America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
Access material from 18th-century America, including original newspapers, maps, and writings, as well as Early American Review, a historical journal.

The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Demographic Simulation
http://www.whc.neu.edu
From Northeastern University's Annenberg/CPB Project "Migration in World History."

Excerpts from Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
Compiled by the University of Houston, this contains more than 40 slave narratives from the 17th to the 20th century.

Harriet Tubman Resource Center on the African Diaspora
http://www.yorku.ca/nhp
A digital library and repository as well as facilities for the digitalization of materials.

Historical Text Archive
http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/
A list of links from which you can access electronic texts, maps, photos, and documents.

Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Media Database
http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html
Compiled by Jerome S. Handler

Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Access primary sources, manuscripts, photographs, music, and other documents about African-American history and culture.

The United States Constitution
http://www.usconstitution.net/
This site offers The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and a way to navigate through the U.S. Constitution.
 
 

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