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PBS Source with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Provided by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Provided by The Library of Congress.

New York Times

The New York Times

Provided by The National Museum of African American History and Culture.

PBS

Provided by Facing History and Ourselves.

This digital memorial raises questions about the largest slave trades in history and offers access to the documentation available to answer them. European colonizers turned to Africa for enslaved laborers to build the cities and extract the resources of the Americas. They forced millions of mostly unnamed Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, and from one part of the Americas to another. Analyze these slave trades and view interactive maps, timelines, and animations to see the dispersal in action.

Provided by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Article from The Atlantic on the largest slave auction on American soil.

Article from Slate.

Provided by Teaching Tolerance.

Primary source materials on slavery.

The recordings of former slaves in Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine states. Twenty-three interviewees discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom.

Provided by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

PBS Source - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Provided by The History Channel.

PBS source

Article from the Smithsonian Magazine

From the Harriet Tubman Historical Society

From the Harriet Tubman Historical Society

NPR article

Provided by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

From the Heritage Society

From the Heritage Society

Provided by The Equal Justice Initiative: https://eji.org/about/

From the National Archives

Captured in oral history interviews conducted in the 1980s with aging Philadelphians who participated in and witnessed the Great Migration firsthand, these stories tell of both individual lives and collective experiences adapting to a new home in the "City of Brotherly Love."

Powerful video of one of the reasons African American families left the South for the North.

From Public Radio

From the Introduction to the 1949 edition: "With the introduction of this travel guide in 1936, it has been our idea to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trips more enjoyable."

Provided by the Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium / University of Washington.

Video and article from Vox.