History

Organizations/Films

Traces of the Trade
Documentary film about the DeWolf family and the Northern slave trade.

Articles

Rhode Island Weighs Using Shorter Official Name
Rhode Island history related to the slave trade.

Museums

Prudence Crandall Museum
National Historic Landmark that was the first academy for African-American women.

The Moton Museum
Museum that features civil rights in education.

NMAAHC
The National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Web Resource

Slavery and the making of America
The history of the slave trade between 1619 to 1881.

Slavery in the North
Resources related to the North’s role in slavery.

The Choices Program
Educational resources on the slave trade and New England.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
A center at Yale University dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of
knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction.

Slavery in New York
The New York Historical Society’s exhibition includes online resources and educational materials.

Web Resource/Book

Slavery by Another Name
History of the re-enslavement of African Americans from the Civil War to World War II.

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
A study of communities that banned African Americans and other minority groups.

Books

Inheriting the Trade
A memoir about a family’s quest to face its slave-trading past and an urgent call for reconciliation.

Visual

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Several hundred images relating to the slave trade, including maps, housed at the University of Virginia.