Colonialism, Slavery, Trade, Reparations
Remedying the 'Past'?
Records and accounts
This section contains links to accounts, records and narratives pertaining to the slave trade.
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- Olaudah Equiano: A Critical Biography by Brycchan Carey.
- Trans-atlantic Slave Trade database has information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages.
- Recovered Histories, a digitised collection of 18th and 19th century literature on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
- 700,000 Caribbean slavery records on line.
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - Interviews with former slaves conducted by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s in the South of the United States
- A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie - Essays exploring the story of the Henrietta Marie ship, which sank near Key West in 1701.
- The Last Slave Ships - Documentation accompanying the 2002 exhibition at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum on three slave ships brough to Key West in 1860
- 'Slavery and Revolution', an archive containing letters written by Simon Taylor (1738-1813), a slaveowner based in Jamaica.
- Des Moines woman recalls life as a maid, articles in the DesMoinesRegister.com
