Online Resources (emphasis on AFRICAN DIASPORA)
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/avorgbedor1/diasps/returns.htm
(includes students’ activities--Africans in England, Brazil, India, Mexico,
Canada, return movements (Sierra Leone), Africa in the Global World, political
maps)
--http://diaspora.northwestern.edu/ (Global Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora. This interactive website
demonstrates linkages between transnational black politics, social movements
and world historical events of the 20th century.)
Documenting
The Global Black Experience For The 21st Century [NOT ACTIVE]
--http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/legacy2.htm
(Documenting
The Global Black Experience For The 21st Century [Schomburg Library])
NB: SELECT “FRAME VERSION” and browse INTRODUCTION, AFRICA, and DIASPORA
-- http://antislavery.eserver.org/
(extensive teaching guides, notes, support webliography)
-- http://www.bristolandslavery.4t.com/
-- GLOBAL MIGRATION african
peoples project at HARRIET TUBMAN INSTITUTE— York Univ
-- http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=20
(emphasis on India)
--http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/curriculum/lm15/stu_acttwo.html
[Not active]
-- http://www.disc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
(slave movement 18th-19th C.; searchable
database)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
slaves stories
mp3 wav rm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html Federal
Writers Project
(from WPA = Works Progress Administration)
http://iibp.chadwyck.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/
(list of black periodicals)
other a-a sources religion
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/ncuhtml/related.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/bookmark3.html archaeology
-- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
(teacher-oriented)
--http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/
(Curtin, Philip D.; Lovejoy, Paul E. / Africans in bondage : studies in slavery and the
slave trade : essays in honor of Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin (1986).
Quite extensive and several essays online)
- -http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
(important dates and events—compare with other timelines
below)
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/avorgbedor1/diasps/returns.htm
(Exploring early return to Africa efforts, including global connections, timelines, class activities)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section2.shtml
important online history of Africa;
includes kingdoms, religions, sounds; etc.; see also its TIMELINE AT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/2generic3.shtml
http://search.eb.com/Blackhistory/home.do;jsessionid=AFBE4E77A3CE02F1B2100F032171A7BE(CLICK
ON ITEM 2 OF TOC, TIMELINE ; compare also http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm
(most
extensive with hyperlinks):
http://innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html
(another
timeline with notes on ancient, colonial and postcolonial African societies;
many links and resources)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibit10/10-05.html
(This exhibition is part of USM’s
2001-2002 Gloria S. Duclos Convocation, a year-long examination of migration
and homelessness titled, Diaspora: Meanings of Home; Introducitoin defines the
diaspora; v Origins of the African-American Diaspora; VI. Africans in the
Americas; also The Middle Passage )
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/africa.html
(image collections)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/history/ao-guide.html (introduction to African
history and culture)
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/timeline/amistad.html
(Notes on the film on Slave Rebelion, AMISTAD)
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hislavery.html
(webliography)
MAPS
= http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Nigeria_Facts/NigerianMaps/Africa-HistoricMaps/Africa-HistMapsPage.html
following is part of this:
http://www.rit.edu/%7Eafrica/diaspora/mapPg1.shtml=
quick routes and time, includes asia and middle passage use with….
Harris map version
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/images/diaspora.jpg
http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org/migrationsim/afrsim/data_html/group1.html
hard data and figures on export and emigration of African populations in
slavery times
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/arc/digarchives/mission
missionary archive of photos, etc. African
societies
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fcont%2Fcont0001%2F&tif=00265.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABR1802-0001-54
(copy all and paste into browser)
(important online database to search on slavery, etc.)
other useful digital archives:
http://www.ibiblio.org/http://docsouth.unc.edu/ (search, e.g., west Africa blues)
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/(search west
Africa travel accounts)
Bibliographies/Webliographies
http://www.theatre.umd.edu/Faculty/HNathans/Diaspora/Bibliography.html
