Online Resources, Pt 1 of 3 (emphasis on AFRICAN DIASPORA, General)
--http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/legacy2.htm
(Documenting
The Global Black Experience For The 21st Century [Schomburg Library])
NB: SELECT “FRAME VERSION” and browse INTRODUCTION, AFRICA, and DIASPORA
--http://diaspora.northwestern.edu/
(Global Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora. This interactive website
demonstrates linkages between transnational black politics, social movements
and world historical events of the 20th century.)
Documenting
The Global Black Experience For The 21st Century [NOT ACTIVE]
-- http://antislavery.eserver.org/
(extensive teaching guides, notes, support webliography)
-- http://www.bristolandslavery.4t.com/
--
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/population/slavery.html
(chronology of slavery in early Virginia)
-- GLOBAL MIGRATION african
peoples project at HARRIET TUBMAN INSTITUTE— York Univ
-- http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=20
(emphasis on India)
--http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/curriculum/lm15/stu_acttwo.html
[Not active]
-- http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
(slave movement 18th-19th C.; searchable
database)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
slaves stories
mp3 wav rm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html Federal
Writers Project
(from WPA = Works Progress Administration)
http://iibp.chadwyck.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/
(list of black periodicals)
other a-a sources religion
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/related.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/bookmark3.html archaeology
-- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
(teacher-oriented)
--http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/
(Curtin, Philip D.; Lovejoy, Paul E. / Africans in bondage : studies in slavery and the
slave trade : essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986).
Quite extensive and several essays online)
- -http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
(important dates and events—compare with other timelines
below)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section2.shtml
important online history of Africa;
includes kingdoms, religions, sounds; etc.; see also its TIMELINE AT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/2generic3.shtml
http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=AFBE4E77A3CE02F1B2100F032171A7BE(CLICK
ON ITEM 2 OF TOC, TIMELINE ; compare also http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm
(most
extensive with hyperlinks):
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
(another
timeline with notes on ancient, colonial and postcolonial African societies;
many links and resources)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibit10/10-05.html
(This exhibition is part of USM’s 2001-2002
Gloria S. Duclos Convocation, a year-long examination of migration and homelessness
titled, Diaspora: Meanings of Home; Introduction defines the diaspora; v Origins
of the African-American Diaspora; VI. Africans in the Americas; also The
Middle Passage )
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/africa.html
(image collections)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/history/ao-guide.html (introduction to African
history and culture)
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/amistad.html
(Notes on the film on Slave Rebelion, AMISTAD)
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hislavery.html
(webliography)
MAPS
= http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Nigeria_Facts/NigerianMaps/Africa-HistoricMaps/Africa-HistMapsPage.html
following is part of this:
http://www.rit.edu/%7Eafrica/diaspora/mapPg1.shtml=
quick routes and time, includes asia and middle passage use with….
Harris map version
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/images/diaspora.jpg
http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org/migrationsim/afrsim/data_html/group1.html
hard data and figures on export and emigration of African populations in
slavery times
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/digarchives/mission
missionary archive of photos, etc. African
societies
Digital archives/Online Search:
(important online database to search on slavery, etc.)
http://www.ibiblio.org/
http://docsouth.unc.edu/ Documenting the American South (search, e.g., west Africa blues)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/(search west
Africa travel accounts)
http://www.archive.org (open access, free documents, historical, contemp.)
http://openpdf.com/ebook/
(open access, free documents, historical, contemp.)
--http://www.mdslavery.net/
(teaching about slavery from historical collections,
Maryland Historical Society archives)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/stern.html (archives of sheet music on Lincoln emancipation, civil war, etc.)
Bibliographies/Webliographies
http://www.theatre.umd.edu/Faculty/HNathans/Diaspora/Bibliography.html
http://www.nps.gov/archive/frdo/chrono.htm (Frederick Douglas/Augustus Washington)
http://atl anticslaverydebate.berkeley.edu/module2_bibliography (American slavery debate in the context of Atlantic history 1770-1865)
Digital Library of the Caribbean (http://web1.dloc.com/ufdc/ )
African Diaspora News
