Find a time-line with dates and descriptions of important historic events occurring between the 15th and 19th centuries. Includes many links.

Seminar held at Harvard in 1998 explored issues related to the slave trade. Read paper abstracts and learn about the Du Bois Institute Database.

Access this bibliography of works dealing with gender issues and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Artwork, accompanied by text, portrays the horrors of the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade.

Encyclopedia entry describes the roots, conduct, dissolution and legacy of the Atlantic slave trade.

Read one scholar's stern deconstruction of the myths surrounding the African-American slave trade.

Document published in 1850 discusses the creation of colonies in Africa for former American slaves as a solution for ending the slave trade.

Essay analyzes the economic and political dynamics of the Atlantic slave trade with special attention given to the island of Jamaica.

Find an essay that examines slavery's transition from trade to true commerce and an essay describing the diaspora's effects on black culture.

Resource explores issues related to the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic. Read about the New World's sugar economy.

Provides statistics on the volume of the Atlantic slave trade and briefly discusses the culture of the African diaspora.