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Links
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See
Michael Gerson's piece on David Brion Davis's lecture
in the Washington Post
Photographs from the conference
British
Anti-slavery by Dr John Oldfield, BBC. A summary of the British
slave trade and anti-slavery societies in GB and abroad.
African
American Odyssey Introduction: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and
the Rise of the Sectional Controversy. Sponsored by
the Library of Congress.
The
African-American Mosaic: Conflict of Abolition and Slavery.
Sponsored by the Library of Congress.
Amazing Grace
based on the life of antislavery pioneer
William Wilberforce, is directed by Michael
Apted (The World is Not Enough, Coal Miner's Daughter)
from an original screenplay written by Academy Award nominee Steven
Knight (Dirty Pretty Things).
The Atlantic Slave
Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. "The
approximately 1,200 images in this collection have been selected
from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of
slavery."
Bicentenary
of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, British Department for
Culture, Media and Sport. Links to commemorative events in London and
elsewhere in the UK.
Born in Slavery:
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.
"Contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and
500
black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were
collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the
Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in
1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of
Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves."
Caribbean
Views: Sugar, Slavery and the Making of the West Indies. Part
of the British Library's Collect Britain site, this page contains
material on the African trade, Olaudah Equiano, British abolitionism,
and much more.
"Olaudah
Equiano, the South Carolinian?" Historically
Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society
(January/February 2006).
Samuel
J. May Anti-Slavery Collection, Cornell university Library. This
site contains a large collection of documents relating to the abolition
of slavery in America, Britain, and France.
Wilberforce2007.
This site gathers information about the
200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Great Britain and has
numerous links to commemorations, exhibitions, and current crusades.
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For more information, contact: Donald
Yerxa, yerxad@bu.edu
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Randall J. Stephens 2/16/07
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