CLAW: Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World: Atlantic World

The Atlantic World Workshop at NYU, established in 1997, is a forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars of the humanities and social sciences with interests in the history of the Atlantic world. The workshop sponsors regular sessions during the academic year to discuss works in progress by both junior and senior researchers.

The UNCG Atlantic World Research Network will embrace and foster interdisciplinary Atlantic World research, teaching, and creative work across campus. The Network also seeks to identify UNCG as the leader in Atlantic World Studies in the southeastern United States, and will provide leadership in Atlantic World Studies throughout North America and around the world.

This website features the city’s links with the Transatlantic Slave Trade by tracing the history, the Trade Triangle, as well as the people and companies involved in the trade.

This is a database containing the identity of all slave-owners in the British Caribbean at the time slavery ended. The records concern slave-owners, not the enslaved themselves.

From the Smithsonian collection "On the Water," a digital collection of Atlantic maritime artificats.

This permanent exhibit at the Museum of London Docklands examines London's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The site includes an online interactive map of people and places keyed to various themes: black presence, enslavement, and resistance.

Slavery and Remembrance, a digital guide that embraces the intersections and differences among more than fifty sites and museums from across the globe, provides this article explaining the role of transatlantic trade in the making of the Atlantic World.

Our scope encompasses the history and cultures of North America from circa 1450 to 1820 and includes related developments in Africa, the British Isles, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America.

Port Royal on the island of Jamaica was one of the largest towns in the English colonies during the late 17th century. The importance of Port Royal and Jamaica to England was increasingly due to trade in slaves, sugar, and raw materials.

An independent collection of web archived images by the Bristol Radical History Group, formed in 2006.

Describes the upcoming feature documentary about the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island, the largest slave-trading family in the United States

This impressive new website on the slave trade is an enlarged and revised edition of the Cambridge 1998 CD-ROM dataset (that was clumsy to use) and will be very useful for teaching and research... and its all free, folks!

Created by art historians at Smith College in 2005, the goal of the Vistas project is to promote wider understanding of the visual culture of the Spanish Americas. The project covers a vast region and time period, running geographically from California to Chile, and temporally from the 16th century to the early 19th century. The centerpiece of the site is the gallery, with over 100 images arranged by time period. The 1500s, 1600s, and 1700s are the most populated sections.

The Museum seeks to become a permanent repository for visual, oral and written records and artifacts commemorating the lives and accomplishments of Blacks in Virginia. Our goal is to become a statewide resource on the many facets of Black history through exhibitions, discussions and celebrations.