History of Slavery Websites

as well as Links to Sources on Twain's

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

SLAVERY IN THE US
Timeline of Slavery in Africa
Chronology of the History of US SLavery
Brief Timeline-Slavery to Civil Rights
Click on upper right map to view spread of slavery by year
Transatlantic Slave Trade Statistics
Destructive Political Systems in Early African Economic Systems
Economics of Internal Slave Trade
Gerald Early on Slavery and Jazz Roots
Minstrelsy by Karen Sotiropoulos (author of Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America )
W.E.B. DuBois-The Souls of Black Folk (Read Chapter 14)
What is the Blues?
Newseum
Freedom's Journal ("We wish to plead our own cause")
The African-American Mosaic
Colonization
African-American History Pamphlets
African- American Sheet Music 1850-1920
History of Liberia
Slave Narratives
First Person Narratives of The American South
Slaves and the Courts
Discussion of The First Ammendment
USA History of Slavery by Topic
WPA Slave Narratives
Africans in America
US National Slavery Museum
Introduction to African American Genealogy
Links to sites about Underground Railroad
Read The Fugitive Slave Law
Underground railroad illustrations
IMAGES
Gallery of Illustrations/Photos from slavery
More illustration at IV:B-- "Historical Documents"
IRON MUZZLE
Hung alive by ribs
Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
SLAVE NAMES
Slave names
Table of slave names
THE ADVENTURES OF
HUCKLEBERRY FINN

(Note: the MC library has 44 texts related

to the novel and Portal access to NetLibrary

which has many critical works that

can be read online)
Read Many Early Reviews
Advertising Huck

Territories Map
Mississippi of Huck Finn

Reading and annotating the novel
Mark Twain and His Times
"Finding Jim Behind the Mask"
Representing Jim
Search Illustrations etc
First Edition Illustrations
Audio recording of HUCK FINN
Garrison Keillor's recording
THE “N” WORD
PBS--the "N" word
Read a definition
Urban Dictionary's definitions
Ferris.edu site on the N word in history
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Underground RR map
Clickable dated maps!
MINSTRELSY
PBS Minstrelsy
More on Minstrelsy
Questions answered about Minstrelsy
Univ of Virginia's Site on Minstrelsy
HERO’S JOURNEY

What is a Hero's Journey?

Updated March 9, 2009