Recommended Websites
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Databasehe Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages
that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The actual number is estimated to have been as high as 12.5 million. The database and the separate estimates interface offer researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history. - BlackPast.orgBlackPast.org is directed toward multiple audiences ranging from scholars and researchers to the general public. We invite you to explore our comprehensive resources and knowledge base. All of the information on this website is copyrighted but you are free to access it with our permission. Any information from this site that is posted or published elsewhere must be cleared by the BlackPast.org management and credited to Blackpast.org.
- Africa South of the Sahara"The African collections at the Stanford University Libraries encompass publications, audio-visual materials, archives, manuscripts and electronic resources about and from Sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the finest African studies collections in the world. Two of the many notable holdings at Stanford include African newspapers and the African map collection at the Earth Science Library."
- Notable Kentucky African Americans Database"The Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA) has been developed as a finding aid to bring together a brief description of pertinent names, places, and events, and to list the sources where additional information may be found. This is not currently an all inclusive database, but we are working toward that goal and suggestions are welcomed. "
- Umbra Search: African American History"Umbrasearch.org brings together more than 500,000 digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country. Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and we pay homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement."
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