Summary of selected websites featuring information and digitised archival resources mainly relating to the Abolition 2007 bicentenary commemorations.
1807 Commemorated
University of York/Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/about.html
Website area for project co-ordinated by the Institute of Public Understanding of the Past (University of York) mapping and analysing public debate and activity regarding the Bicentenary. The project involves 6 Museums: the British, International Slavery, National - Liverpool, British Empire and Commonwealth, National Maritime and Wilberforce House.
The site contains interviews with people involved in the Museums 1807 activities, reports on media, exhibitions and audience, a glossary, a comprehensive bibliography, and details of Conferences. A growing series of reports discusses particular exhibitions such as Bombay Africans, and freemasonry and abolition. Discussion essays review key topics related to the Bicentenary, such as the use of the abolition image 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother'.
Abolition
BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/abolition/
Website commemorating the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It contains sections on the history of the slave trade and abolition, the legacy, modern enslavement, links to activities reported on BBC local area websites around Britain, links to radio programmes broadcast by the BBC, and pages of children's and young people's projects on CBBC.
Abolition of the Slave Trade Bicentennial
Greater London Authority
www.london.gov.uk/slavery/index.jsp
Website created in 2007 to provide information about the role of London in the slave trade and abolition.
The Abolition Project
EB2N & MLA East of England
http://abolition.e2bn.org/index.php
A website about Thomas Clarkson and his fellow abolitionists designed to provide background information, lesson ideas and tools for teachers, but could also be used by pupils for research with support. It contains transcripts and images of original documents.
American Abolitionism Project
Indiana University
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/index.htm
Website with sections on US abolition, slavery, and the geography of slavery. Its biography, documents, and bibliography sections link to resources on other American websites. It also details officers of many abolitionist organisations. It also has a section of links to other relevant mainly US websites.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
University of Virginia
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php
Part of University's Digital Media Lab's Exploring Cultural Landscapes website section. It contains over 1,200 images relating to the slave trade and slavery. Each image is accompanied by details of its source and comments on what it shows.
A Giant with One Idea: Thomas Clarkson and the Anti-Slavery Movement
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk/clarkson/index.html
A website developed to accompany a museum exhibition about Thomas Clarkson’s role as a key architect of the British anti-slavery movement (NB: Clarkson was born in Wisbech in 1760). In addition to biographical information about Clarkson himself and a general overview about the history of transatlantic slave trading, the site also contains photographs of c.12 museum artefacts specific to Clarkson’s life and work
Anti-Slavery Arch - Stroud
The Anti-Slavery Arch Group
www.anti-slaveryarch.com
A website about the anti-slavery arch built in 1834 for the abolitionist Henry Wyatt at Farmhill Park in Stroud. It also contains material about modern day slavery.
Anti Slavery: Today’s fight for tomorrow’s freedom
Anti-Slavery International
www.antislavery.org
The website of Anti-Slavery International featuring PDF documents, documentary photographs, exhibition materials, maps and campaign posters relating to modern forms of slavery – such as child labour, bonded labour and trafficking.
Awards for All
Heritage Lottery Fund
www.abolition200.org.uk
General website featuring information about the Lottery Distributors' involvement in the Abolition 2007 Bicentenary. The site features a searchable calendar of commemorative events and exhibitions. The articles and information housed on it will be transferred in due course to the 24 Hour Museum www.24hourmuseum.org.uk (soon to be Culture24)
Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
www.quaker.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=93421
Website with resources about the Quaker involvement in the abolition of the slave trade and details of the archive material in Library at Friends House in Euston.
Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500 - 1850
The National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory
An online exhibition developed by The National Archives, in association with BASA, that presents a selection of relevant records held by The National Archives and other sources, on the Black presence in Britain throughout this time period. Thumbnail image links to digitised archival documents are presented throughout the site, along with two ‘interactive learning journeys’.
Breaking the Chains - The Fight to End Slavery
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
www.empiremuseum.co.uk
A page on the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum that describes and provides a photographic tour of the Museum’s £1 million Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition, ‘Breaking the Chain’ - created to mark the significance of 2007 in consultation with community members, and in partnership with Bristol's Museums, Galleries and Archives.
Breaking the Silence: Learning about the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Anti Slavery International
www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence
Educational website from Antislavery International featuring information and learning resources about the transatlantic Slave Trade. The site has a large section of ‘Pick and Mix Resources for the Classroom’ (with freely downloadable lesson plans in MS Word and PDF formats).
Bristol Slavery Trail Archive
Victoria County History
www.historyfootsteps.net
Part of Victoria County History's England's Past for Everyone website. Based mainly on work by Madge Dresser it enables people to do a structured walk through Bristol's slavery connections. It contains worksheets.
Commemorating Abolition
University of Central Lancashire
www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/cfe/ceth/abolition/project.htm
Website project follow-on to UCLAN's Slave Trade Arts Memorial Project (STAMP), focussing on the visual arts and celebrating memorials to the victims of the slave trade and abolitionists. There are pages on Lancaster's Captured Africans memorial, interviews with artists, details of memorials around the world, and an illustrated story about Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin through the ages developed from an exhibition at Birmingham University in 2006/7.
Commemorating the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, 1807
The National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/slavery
A website providing access to a collection of research guides and online exhibitions available via The National Archives site and beyond relating to the slave trade, Caribbean history and migration to Britain.
Connecting Histories
Birmingham City Council
www.connectinghistories.org.uk/default.asp
A website making known some of the experiences and histories of Birmingham's different communities. It includes pages on slavery and anti-slavery resources, and details of anti slavery pamphlets and resources in Birmingham City Archives. There are pages on the Birmingham Anti-Slavery Societies and black abolitionists in the City and a town trail about the abolitionist Joseph Sturge.
Cotton Threads: Bury's Industrial Links to Slavery
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
www.cotton-threads.org.uk
A website that details how Heritage Lottery project funding has been used to conserve, digitise and exhibit the Hutchinson family papers - given to Bury Archives by Geoffrey Hutchinson, Lord Ilford of Bury, in the 1970s. (These papers are typical of information about how plantation slavery and the slave trade supported Britain’s textile industry during the 18th and early 19th centuries).
Equiano Project
Equiano Society & Birmingham City Council
www.equiano.org
Website about Olaudah Equiano, the black abolitionist, created as part of a joint project to put on an exhibition on Equiano in 2007 and produce resources for schools.
Free at Last? The Spirit of Wilberforce Project
Centre for Contemporary Ministry
http://free-at-last.org/1kit/Home/tabid/3642/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
Website exploring the history and legacy of the European Slave Trade. A key feature of the project was a replica of The Zone slave trade ship.
Freedom – A Key Stage 3 History Resource about Britain and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
National Maritime Museum
www.nmm.ac.uk/freedom
A website aimed at teachers and young people containing a searchable database of objects relating to the transatlantic Slave Trade
A Giant with One Idea: Thomas Clarkson and the Anti-Slavery Movement
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk/clarkson/index.html
A website developed to accompany a museum exhibition about Thomas Clarkson’s role as a key architect of the British anti-slavery movement (NB: Clarkson was born in Wisbech in 1760). In addition to biographical information about Clarkson himself and a general overview about the history of transatlantic slave trading, the site also contains photographs of c.12 museum artefacts specific to Clarkson’s life and work
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
www.yale.edu/glc/index.htm
US website devoted to developing an understanding of slavery. It has 'A Classroom' of resources on Frederick Douglass, the African-American abolitionist, the Amistad slave ship revolt, and texts of documents.
Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage Lottery Fund
www.hlf.org.uk/English/features/RememberingSlavery
Section of general website featuring information of HLF's involvement in Abolition 2007 Bicentenary.
Images of Empire
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
www.imagesofempire.com
Images of Empire is an online resource featuring still and moving images on the British colonial period, the majority sourced from the Museum’s own collections. C.135 images specifically relate to slavery and anti-slavery histories.
Inhuman Traffic
Gloucestershire County Council
www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=15282
Section of Gloucestershire Archives website containing background to the transatlantic slave trade, the abolitionist Granville Sharp and his family, the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the black contribution to the abolition movement, the Gloucestershire dimension and modern day slavery.
International Slavery Museum (The former Transatlantic Slavery gallery)
National Museums Liverpool
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/about/capitalprojects/slavery.aspx
and
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism
Online exhibition with artefacts from the museum’s collections and accompanying teachers' notes.
Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project
Partnership led by Leeds West Indian Centre Charitable Trust
www.leedsbicentenary.co.uk
Website highlighted African achievements, aspirations and liberation. It includes details of African heroes involved in the struggle for freedom.
London, Sugar & Slavery
Museum of London
www.museumindocklands.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Special/LSS
Website about the London, Sugar & Slavery exhibition at the Museum of Docklands. It introduces the contents of the exhibition, and has teaching resources, including on Ignatius Sancho, Barbados (sugar and slavery).
Memorial 2007: Remembering Enslaved African and their Descendants, 1807 - 2007
Memorial 2007
www.memorial2007.org.uk
The website of a voluntary campaign group who are fundraising and lobbying to establish a national memorial in Britain to remember enslaved Africans and their descendants.
Mountravers Plantation, Nevis
Christine Eickelmann & Dvaid Small/University of Bristol
http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~emceee/welcome.html
Website exploring the history of the Mountravers Plantation or Pinneys Estate on the West Indian island of Nevis. The Pinney family owned the estate. John Pinney settled in Bristol in 1784. In 1834 the family owned over 750 slaves.
Parliament and the British Slave Trade: 1600-1807
Parliamentary Archives of the United Kingdom
http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/slavetrade/index.html
The Parliamentary Archives site marking the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
The site features an ‘Explore’ section which uses selected digitised archival materials, sound recordings of poetry extracts and a ‘Writer’s Choice’ online exhibition section, selected by the poet and playwright Rommi Smith. There is also a ‘Your Voice’ area for visitor feedback.
Port Cities - Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery
Bristol City Council
www.discoveringbristol.org.uk
This website provides an online history of Bristol's role in the transatlantic slave trade: who was involved, what was bought and sold, who stopped it, and the effect of the trade on the city today. There is also a ‘Learning Journeys’ area that features 5 sets of digitised images and narratives about: How slavery developed, John Pinney, A Georgian House (Gt. George St.) & the Island of Nevis.
Port Cities London
National Maritime Museum & Royal Observatory Greenwich
www.portcities.org.uk/london
Website contains several pages dealing with London and the transatlantic slave trade.
Portraits, People & Abolition
National Portrait Gallery
www.npg.org.uk/live/abo_tr_51.asp
Section of website showing paintings, photos of images from the National Portrait Gallery collection about people connected with slavery and abolition with explanatory texts on the slave trade, after abolition, and slavery today. A section discusses Benjamin Robert Haydon's painting of the 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention.
Real Histories Directory
Runnymede Trust
www.realhistories.org.uk
Resource website for teachers, parents, pupils and the wider community to support them in teaching and learning about cultural diversity in the UK. It contains sections on slavery and the slave trade.
Recovered Histories
Anti-Slavery International
www.recoveredhistories.org
Sub-titled ' Reawakening the narratives of enslavement, resistance, and the fight for freedom', this website contains digitised copies of Anti-Slavery International's collection of 18th and 19th century literature on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The items cover the narratives of the enslaved, enslavers, slave ship surgeons, abolitionists, parliamentarians, clergy, planters and rebels. The site also contains details of educational resources and 'A test your knowledge' questionnaire.
Remembering Slavery 2007
Tyne and Wear Museums (North East)
www.rememberingslavery.org.uk
A website providing details (& online calendar listings) about the event programmes, exhibitions and lectures offered by museums, galleries, libraries and archives across North East England in relation to the 200th anniversary of the Parliamentary Act to abolish the slave trade in the British colonies. The site is being developed with detailed resources which should be available from October 2008.
Revealing Histories
Renaissance North West
Website developed by a consortium of Museums in Manchester debating slavery – was Manchester built by slaves? It has sections investigating Africa's history, economics, human rights, the fight, culture, racism, artefacts, exhibitions at the partner museums, people, and places in the city. There is an interactive video 'This Accursed Thing', videos of debate events, and two films made by young people.
Royal Navy and the Slave Trade
Royal Navy / Ministry of Defence
www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3938
Royal Navy website providing an historical overview of the trade in slaves, illustrated with digitised archive material.
Samuel J May Anti-Slavery Collection
Cornell University Library
http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery
Website containing a large number of digitalised documents published from 1704 in Britain and the United States on slavery, abolition and anti-slavery and the United States Civil War collected by Rev Samuel J May from. Additions to the Collection go up to 1942. The collection can be searched/browsed by date, author, title and key word.
Scotland and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Learning and Teaching Scotland
www.ltscotland.org.uk/abolition/index.asp
Website created as a learning resource for primary schools and early years of secondary school. It contains material and images relating to Scottish involvement in the slave trade, in abolition and sections on black servants and resistance. Also examines contemporary issues of slavery.
Slavery and Glasgow
Scottish Archive Network
www.scan.org.uk/exhibitions/blackhistory/blackhistory_1.htm
Web pages examining the involvement of Glasgow in slavery and abolition, with pages on slave owners, tobacco lords, slave conditions and abolitionists.
Slavery & Freedom in American History & Memory
Area Co-operative Educational Services, Connecticut
www.yale.edu/glc/aces/index.htm
Website to improve history teachers’ professional development on slavery and freedom. It contains resources of historic writings. ACES is linked with the Gilder Lehrman Center (see above).
Slavery, Emancipation and Abolition
Brycchan Carey
www.brycchancarey.com
Webpages of site run by Brycchan Carey, Reader in English Literature, Kingston University Surrey. It contains sections of slavery and abolition, Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano and Ottobah Cugoano, anti-slavery poems and other literature.
Slaves’ Stories
National Museums of Liverpool
Historical site aimed at schoolchildren following four enslaved Africans on the Middle Passage
The Slave Trade & Abolition
English Heritage
www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.17474
Webpages to show the links between buildings managed by English Heritage with the slave trade and abolition, black lives in Britain and abolitionists. There are sections on slavery and justice (and the legacies of Dido Belle and Lord Mansfield), the built environment and the trade, including education resources.
Spartacus Educational
John Simkin
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
A schools educational history website with specialist areas on Black People in Britain, slavery 1750-1870, and the US Civil War. It contains summaries and extracts from people's lives and writings, and about the slavery system and slave life.
The Story of Africa: Slavery
BBC World Service
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section9.shtml
A website featuring written information about the history of slavery and its impact throughout the African continent. The site also contains freely accessible sound recordings of broadcasts from the BBC landmark radio series ‘The Story of Africa’, presented by Hugh Quarshie, and a ‘Forum Feedback’ section.
Understanding Slavery
National Maritime Museum
[NB: NMM is the lead partner in a National Regional Partnership initiative funded via DCMS]
www.understandingslavery.com
A citizenship and history curriculum-related online resource for teachers and educators planning lessons on the transatlantic Slave Trade for young people studying at Key Stages 3-4. The site contains selected digitised artefacts from museum collections, historical information organised into eight chronological themes, lesson plans and activities for use in school or community contexts.
Wilberforce 2007
Hull County Council
www.wilberforce2007.co.uk
A portal for events in and around Hull, home of abolitionist William Wilberforce, including teaching resources and an online gallery of digitised images relating to Wilberforce’s life and also the commemorative events that have taken place in Hull to mark the bicentenary.
Wilberforce Central
Wilberforce Central Alliance
www.wilberforcecentral.org/wfc/index.htm
Website about Wilberforce, the Clapham Group and their role in the abolition of slavery. It contains the texts of the British and US 1807 Slave Trade Abolition Bills, the 1956 UN resolution on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, and the UN 2005 Report on Human Trafficking.
WISE
Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (Hull)
www.hull.ac.uk/wise
WISE is the website of a research institute established at the University of Hull to address critical issue for the 21st century relating to the history of slavery, emancipation and human rights and related aspects of social justice policy and practice in the modern era. NB: Although the site contains details about events and conferences it does not contain digitised archival research resources