Use the websites below to research the viewpoint you were assigned. You will need to take notes on the form given to you in class. The information you generate will be shared with the class.
The Middle Passage
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASships.htm
Descriptions of the middle passage from Africans, crew members and slave ship captains.
http://www.recoveredhistories.org/storiesmiddle.php
Narratives from Africans who were taken as slaves, telling about their experiences on the middle passage.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=68
Facts and statistics about the middle passage
An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.
The description of the slave trade from Alexander Falconbridge.
Resistance and Rebellion
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mutiny-on-the-iamistadi-slave-ship
History Channel’s description of the Amistad slave ship rebellion.
http://www.recoveredhistories.org/storiesresist.php
Narratives about resistance and rebellion that contain many primary source descriptions and quotations.
http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/Kinson/Kinson.html
The story of Sarah Margru Kinson, the only Amistad captive to later return to America.
African- European Relationship
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1i3066.html
A description of the relationship between Africans and Europeans during the slave trade and triangular trade.
Slave Ship Captains and Crew
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0208/feature4/index.html
Look at items recovered from a slave ship that sunk off the coast of Florida.
A site with links to Connecticut’s involvement in the slave trade and information about Sam Gould, who may have been a first mate on many voyages.
http://www.projo.com/extra/2006/slavery/day4/
Read about a slave ship captain from Rhode Island. His journals are included – he writes about his ship named The Sally. He tells about the supplies he takes with him as he goes to pick up his cargo. If you read to the bottom, there’s also information about investors.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6541/is_6_69/ai_n29218077/
Read about Captain Godfrey who sailed from New England to Africa. Included at the bottom of the first page is a letter to Captain Godfrey from his investors. Pay attention to the letter and see what he is instructed to do.
Slave Ship Investors
http://thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=730
Read about how the London Stock Exchange and even art galleries were involved in the slave trade.
http://www.projo.com/extra/2006/slavery/day6/
You can read about a Rhode Island family who bought and sold Africans as slaves. They went to Africa to buy people and sold them in Rhode Island and kept them in Cuba on their sugar cane plantations there.
A Slave Ship Speaks: The Henrietta Marie
Provides a description of London’s port and its commerce.
General Information related to Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/index.html
PBS overview of African American history includes excerpts from primary sources and documents related to all three topics.
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. Click on “Explore the Collection” and then select a category to examine. You can find pictures with descriptions and explanations.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2010/index.php
Three Worlds Meet: Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For information about enslaved Native Americans, click on Indian Slavery in the Americas.
