New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

The horrors of the Atlantic slave trade are covered in this presentation. Intended as an accent to a lecture, learners will see images, answer questions, and engage in an activity intended to help them understand the conditions of Middle...

Actual ship diagrams and a table of voyage data gives young historians an authentic glimpse of on-board experiences during the Atlantic Slave Trade. The class examines a projected diagram of the slave ship Brooks, recording thoughts....

Much of Latin American music owes its origins to the slave trade. Peoples from the Yoruban and Dahomean cultures brought with them the distinctive rhythms, time signatures, and eighth note patterns that now characterize Caribbean music....

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.

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.

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.

Take advantage of this thorough database covering all of the voyages which participated in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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The beginning of the Atlantic slave trade uprooted previously established societal norms in West Africa.