Slave trade research & help using The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM

Feel free to contact Reference staff for assistance using and borrowing the CD-ROM (3-day check-out). For further questions or assistance, please contact the following specialists:

Shelley Arlen (History, Collection Management Dept., 392-4919) shelarl@mail.uflib.ufl.edu

Carol Kem (African-American resources, Collection Management, 392-4919) carokem@mail.uflib.ufl.edu

Dan Reboussin (Africana, Special & Area Studies Collections Dept., 392-4919) danrebo@ufl.edu

Using the database:

Quick Guide to Using the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade CD-ROM. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/history/TransAtlanticSlaveTradeGuide.html

Review of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM by Lorena S. Walsh, Department of Historical Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Published by EH.NET, October 2000. http://www.ialhi.org/news/i0010_5.html

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade CD-ROM. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/reference/help/slavetrade/slavetrade.pdf

This user guide provides a quick overview of the query software and provides a detailed search example.

Other useful resources:

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr. http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery/

Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860. Paged Collection, Library West: E 185.96 .A48 2000

A collection of data cumulated from archives in Louisiana, Texas, Spain, and France, that provides information on more than 100,000 slaves. Data include names, birthplace in Africa, skills, health, owner, and some describe personality and 'degree of rebelliousness.' Many of the original documents were created for trials or other legal actions regarding slaves. The data purport to indicate that two-thirds of African captives brought to Louisiana prior to 1730, were from the Senegambia area of West Africa. The culture they brought with them (music, language, food, folklore, etc.) became the foundation for Louisiana's Creole culture. See also: "Identity Restored to 100,000 Louisiana Slaves," The New York Times July 30, 2000.

Historical Newspapers And Other Historical Periodicals: Guide to Collections and Indexes at the University of Florida Libraries. http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/history/HistoricalNewspapersandOtherHistoricalPeriodicals.html

"Part of Cornell's vast holdings documenting ante-bellum and Civil War America now housed in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, The Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Collection comprises over 10,000 pamphlets and leaflets collected by May, which document the anti-slavery struggle at local, regional, national and international levels."

Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora, directed by Paul E. Lovejoy at York University: http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/

Sue Peabody, a history professor at Washington State University, Vancouver created a website to document slavery related links: http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/slave.htm

H-Net offers advanced search functions via the web (variety of discussion lists include Africa, Atlantic world): http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/logsearch/ ; http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~atlantic/links.htm

Reference materials
Porter, Andrew (ed.). Bibliography of imperial, colonial, and Commonwealth history since 1600. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. LIBRARY WEST Reference: DA16 .B53 2002

Miller, Joseph Calder. Slavery and slaving in world history: a bibliography, 1900-1991. Vol. 1. Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, c1993. LIBRARY WEST Reference: HT861 .M541 1993

Miller, Joseph Calder. Slavery and slaving in world history: a bibliography. Vol. 2. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, c1999. LIBRARY WEST Reference: HT861 M541 1998  

Maps
Antique and historical maps of Africa and the Americas are available at the UF Libraries to help you with research on the slave trade: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/antique.htm Contact the Map & Imagery Library for further assistance (rare and early maps may require some special arrangements for use).

Foreign Government Documents
Records of the British Parliament at the University of Florida Quick Reference Guide http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/docs/bp/bpframes.html

UF Libraries also have the following items:

Department documents are sometimes printed in the parliamentary papers. We have Sheila Lambert's definitive set of indexes and finding aids for the 1700s British documents. The index and finding aids are in the first two volumes. There are many British parliamentary papers finding aids, including for the 1800s already in Reference.

Primary documents on the web (from Google search using “Slave trade” and “Primary documents”)
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ "These links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated." there are some 'excerpts' included. See especially “History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents, 1689 - 1815.”

Excerpts from Slave Narratives. Edited by Steven Mintz. University of Houston. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm

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