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Timelines.tv: A History of Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
This outstanding site offers an interactive timeline that spans the breadth of British history from 1066 to the late 20th century. The timeline acts as a portal to high quality videos originally produced for the BBC that cover a broad...
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Website
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Emory University: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Voyages

For Students 9th - 10th
Take advantage of this thorough database covering all of the voyages which participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Graphic
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The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database: Introductory Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Nine full-color, excellent quality maps depicting the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, each with an interpretation and explanation of the voyages portrayed during the specific time period.
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Graphic
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Rothman and Burdumy: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
Time-lapsed heatmap visualization of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. Data from Transatlantic Slave Trade Database mapped in a three-part depiction of voyages, ship disembarkment location and ship arrival location in the Americas.
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Graphic
Other

Slave Images: Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has thousand of photos, drawings, and prints dealing with slavery, most of them dating from the period of Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.
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Handout
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England

For Students 9th - 10th
Unit explores, through a series of videos from notable scholars, the effects of the trade in slaves and of slavery itself on the new Americans of the time and helps students to understand how history, and the telling of history, affects...
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Slave Trade, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
A West African map and three accounts of the development of slave acquisition display the process and the brutality of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Article
Digital History

Digital History: Middle Passage

For Students 9th - 10th
The number of Africans who died or were enslaved as a result of slave trading both across the Atlantic and into the Arabian peninsula is truly shocking. Read about the Middle Passage which brought millions of slaves to the New World, see...
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Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia article describing slavery in Colonial Georgia and the role that Savannah played in slave trade from 1755 to as late as 1858.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Africans in America: Part 1: The Growth of Slavery in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
Focuses on slavery in North America, the worry about uprisings, and slavery's economic impact. Links to related information.
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Article
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: African Americans in the British New World

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the transit of Africans from their homeland to the American British colonies to work on plantations in the south as part of leg in the triangular trade.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Bitesize History: Industrial Era: Triangular Slave Trade: Interpretations

For Students 6th - 8th
Discusses the different interpretations that historians have had of the slave trade. It includes a video of Interpretations of the abolition of slavery, questions with answers, and a link to an assessment.
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Article
PBS

Pbs: Elmina Castle, Trading Outpost and "Slave Factory"

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about "slave factories," built along Africa's western coast.