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= Resources to support research on Slavery in America unit, Tahoma Junior High School in Ravensdale, WA. =

Slavery and the Making of America
== Use this site for information on the daily lives of slaves. Choose 'Slave Memories' for general information and the personal narratives found on the 'Slave Experience' pages to learn more specific details. ==

Find drawings, maps, and other images depicting the trans-Atlantic voyages of slaves as well as slave life in America. Choose the 'Explore the Collection' menu option to browse and search images.
== Encyclopedia of Slavery-USA Spartacus Educational Online Encyclopedias. Includes articles on slave trade, slave life and personal slave accounts. == = Voices from the Days of Slavery- American Memory collection from Library of Congress. Includes interviews with twenty-three former slaves, born between 1823 and early 1860s. They discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families and freedom. = =Lest We Forget NY Public Library exhibit with essays and images. NOTE: right-click and Zoom In to read text easily.=

Africans in America
== This website goes with PBS series. It will provide you historical context for each time period of slavery in America. Click on links to "Narrative" and "Resource Bank" for details about slave auctions, slave codes, individual stories, etc. ==

by James Walvin 306.3 WAL || Examination of the history of the Atlantic slave trade, discussing how slaves were used, the Middle Passage, slave life and resistance, abolition, and other related topics. Includes photographs and ten facsimile documents, such as plans and logs of slave ships and private letters. Chapters three and four are especially helpful for the Slavery Research Chart. || by R.G. Grant 306.3 GRA || Combines personal accounts with illustrations and photographs to portray the history and hardships of slavery in America. Includes maps, charts, and timelines. Chapter two-four are especially helpfu fot the Slavery Research Chart. || By Velma Thomas 306.362 THO || Documents the plight of an estimated 100 million Africans, from their rich pre-slavery culture to their enslavement in a foreign land. Includes details about slave trade, auctions, life as a slave, resistance and life after slavery was abolished in the United States. || By Richard Watkins 306.362 WAT || Chronicles the practice and history of slavery from the ancient world to modern times.Includes chapters on trade routes for slaves in Africa, Triangle Trade and the Middle Passage and the buying and treatment of slaves. Information is not just about slavery in the Americas. || By Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen 306.3 GAN || Chronicles the history of slavery around the world over the course of five thousand years, and includes personal accounts, photographs, maps, and suggestions for further reading. || By Julius Lester 306.3 LES || A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. ||
 * Gale E-books for research: Search key terms: Slavery, Middle Passage, Triangle Trade, Slave Codes (Password needed if accessing outside of district: tahomajrhs) **
 * Print Books **
 * [[image:slave trade.gif width="100" height="141"]] || The Slave Trade,
 * [[image:slavery.JPG link="http://www.boundgodz.com/"]] || Slavery
 * [[image:lest we forget.jpg width="155" height="191"]] || Lest We Forget
 * [[image:bondage.gif width="176" height="140"]] || Slavery: Bondage Throughout History
 * [[image:five thousan years of slavery.gif width="108" height="159"]] || Five Thousand Years of Slavery
 * [[image:to be a slave.gif width="130" height="161"]] || To Be a Slave

VIDEOS (Double Click for Full Screen)

 * media type="file" key="American Slavery1 Early Nineteenth Century.asf" width="269" height="237" || media type="file" key="Slavery and Life in Northern and Southern States.asf" width="297" height="236" || media type="file" key="Slave Trade Triangular Routes.asf" width="297" height="234" || media type="file" key="Slave Plantations of Colonial Times.asf" width="273" height="235" || media type="file" key="Life of a Plantation Slave.asf" width="280" height="242" ||
 * Am Slavery in Early 19th Century (:54) || Slavery and Life in North and South (1:59) || Slave Trade: Triangular Trade Routes (2:25) || Slave Plantations of Colonial Times (1:37) || Life of Plantation Slaves (2:00) ||
 * media type="file" key="Slave trade port in Ghana.asf" width="270" height="215" || media type="file" key="European Participation in African slavery.asf" width="301" height="230" || media type="file" key="African participation in European slave trade.asf" width="292" height="213" || media type="file" key="Travel across the Middle Passage.asf" width="281" height="213" || media type="file" key="Life on Southern Plantation.asf" width="298" height="220" ||
 * Slave trade port in Ghana, Africa (1:44) || European Participation in African Slave Trade (4:12) || African Participation in European Slave Trade (3:35) || Travel Across the Middle Passage (4:14) || Life on a Southern Plantation (3:17) ||

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