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Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Slavery in Antebellum Maritime America / Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea

Related Inst.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Release

Extent

n/a

Visit to Site

Apr 26, 2004.

Notes

Includes sitemap and local search (also covering full text of primary documents).

Language

English

Includes

Description

The very rich site presents the Amistad court case, the itinerary of the Africans at its center, and the public discussion it generated. The incident is used to examine many of the wider issues relating to slavery in the antebellum United States. – The texts introducing and discussing the case are accompanied by historical illustrations and linked to source material, a wide selection of which is available online from the site's library section. — The Mystic Seaport Museum houses a replica of the Amistad .

Groupe de travail – Musées d'Archéologie et d'Histoire: La route des esclaves
Related Name: Camara, Abdoulaye (coord.)
Part of: International Commitee for Museums and Collections of Archeology and History (ICMAH)
Related Inst.: International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Release: Paris, Aug-Nov 2002
Extent: 6 pages/frames (ca. 160 kB) : 2 MS Word docs., 1 illustr. (as of Jul 10, 2003).
Language: French
Description: The group was established in 1997 and adopted its present name in 1999. It seeks to help recovering the memory of the slave trade inventorizing sites and institutions involved in the trade, promoting access to archival collections, and assisting in exhibitions. Initially dedicated to the transatlantic slave trade, the group extended its focus to the transsaharan and Indian Ocean trades.

La Maison des Esclaves
Related Names: Ndiaye, Boubacar Joseph (curator)
Release: Gorée, n. d. (iFrance (Commercial))
Extent: 10 pages/frames (ca. 800 kB) : 1 table in CSV format, 12 illustr.
Visit to Site: Jul 4, 2003.
Language: French
Description: Web presentation of the museum at Gorée Island (Senegal), which has become one of the prominent locations for the commemoration of the transatlantic slave trade on the West African coast.

Le site du musée de la traite et de l'esclavage à Nantes
Release: Nantes, n. d. [start page stamped Oct 2001]
Extent: 1 page (ca. 50 kB) : 2 illustr.
Visit to Site: Jul 4, 2003.
Language: French
Description: Created by an intiative for a museum of slavery and the slave trade in the French port city of Nantes. Consists only of an image and the email contact.

Slave Ship Fredensborg

Part of

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Den norske UNESCO-kommisjonen

Release

Oslo, n. d. [ 2000 (?)][start page stamped Jan 2004]

Extent

50 pages/frames (ca. 2.9 MB) : 88 illustr. (as of Apr 25, 2004).

Language

English

Includes

Description

Presents the history of a Danish-Norwegian slaver, which sunk off the coast Norway upon her return from the West Indies in December 1768. The wreck of the ship was discovered in the 1970s.

A slave ship speaks. The wreck of the Henrietta Marie / Adams, Russell, Heywood, Linda, Landers, Jane, Palmer, Colin, Rawley, James, Thornton, John, Moore, David D., Tattersfield, Nigel, and West, Cornel

Part of

Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society

Release

Key West, Fla., c 2001

Extent

36 pages/frames (ca. 23.9 MB) : 9 PDF docs., 220 illustr., 3 audio files, 1 shockwave-flash animation (English version excl. folder "archivepdf") (as of Mar 6, 2004).

Technical Notes

Newspaper clippings (folder "archivepdf") account for 9 additional PDF docs. of extremely large size (up to 35 MB).

Language

English | Spanish

Includes

9-part history of the Henrietta Marie and the transatlantic slave trade
Research articles on the excavation and the founds
Exhibition of drawings and photographs
Kaplan, Robin / Kingsbury, Rita / Yentsch, Clarice: Teacher's Guide with Classroom Activities

Description

Online exhibit presenting the history and wreck of an English slave ship sunk off the coast of Florida in 1700 during her return to England. The physical exhibition is travelling until its final installation at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in June 2006 (tour calendar). Provides (apart from the online Teacher's Guide) information on related offline teaching resources available for purchase or rent (nominal charges).

Virtual Visit of the Gorée Island. The House of Slaves (Dakar, Sénégal)

Related Names

Cadiou, Richard / Matsuura, Koïchiro (UNESCO Dir. Gen.) / Wade, Abdoulaye (Pres. of the Republic of Sénégal) / Ndiaye, Boubacar Joseph (Gorée House of Slaves, Chief Conservationist)

Part of

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Information Society Division, and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) : Regional Office, Dakar, Senegal

Release

Paris, and Dakar, n. d.

Extent