Transatlantic trade of enslaved people: List of resources (EN, FR)
- anneauxdelamemoire
- 1 déc. 2022
- 3 min de lecture
LIST OF RESOURCES
Archives nationales d’Outre-Mer
Heir to more than three centuries of history, the National Overseas Archives preserve numerous documents that bear witness to the transatlantic trade and colonial slavery in France Visit the website
The National Archives
The UK National Archives are guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents. Visit the website
Slave Voyages
The Slave Voyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in trading ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.
The missing chapter : Black chronicles
The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles is Autograph ABP’s ongoing archive research programme, with the mission to bring together a body of photographic portraiture to highlight diverse ‘black presences’ prior to 1948, especially in Victorian and early Edwardian Britain. Visit the website
ECHOES
ECHOES addresses a pressing dilemma at the heart of contemporary Europe: the fact that while the history of empires and colonialism undoubtedly constitutes a shared European past, this past remains strangely silent in official narratives about Europe’s ‘heritage’. Visit the website
Library of Congress
Articles and documents posted online by the Library of Congress. Several presentations/exhibitions of digitised historical documents on the process of enslavement in the United States. Visit the website
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Several millions documents can be consulted and downloaded freely: books, manuscripts, maps and plans, prints, photographs, posters, magazines. Visit the Website
The John Carter Brown library
The John Carter Brown Library is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901, It contains a wealth of materials and iconography on Native American history, colonial history, and slavery. Visit the website
The brasiliana fotografica
The Brasiliana Fotográfica portal is a large project to gather the country's photographic collections. The site contains several thousand images from the 19th and early 20th century of Brazilian history. Visit the website
The biodiversity library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world's largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Many documents give information on the colonisation of the Americas and colonial products. Visit the website
The British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. Visit the website
Biblioteca National Brasil
The National Library of Brazil has a collection of more than nine million documents, it is one of the largest libraries in the American continent, and the largest library in Latin America. Visit the website
Rijksmuseum
As the reference museum for Dutch colonial history, the rooms of the Rijksmuseum dedicated to the history of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people have been completely redesigned in 2019 and offer new insights into how to show this history to the public. Visit the website
International slavery museum
Inaugurated in 2007 as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people in the former British Empire. Visit the website
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
The first museum dedicated to African American history and culture in the United States. The museum deals with history and culture through three themes: slavery, segregation, and culture and sport. Visit the website
Collection du Musée de Nantes, Château des ducs de Bretagne
The Nantes History Museum, through its collections and the historical work carried out on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people from Nantes, is internationally recognised as a reference site. Visit the website
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