Our Lady of the Elms Elementary Library

SELECTED WEB SITES

Africans in America, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/

From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/civilrights/flash.html

The Journey: An Interactive Timeline on Black History
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/black_history/tl/default.asp

The Lynching Calendar
http://www.autopsis.org/foot/lynch.html

Lynching in the United States
http://www.answers.com/topic/lynching-in-the-united-states

On the Web: African American History
http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/onweb/99/africam.html

Slavery and the Making of America, PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html

Slavery in America
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org

Slave ship operators packed their cargo unmercifully close together for the multi-week voyage. Africans were shackled ankle to ankle.

To prevent "melancholy," slaves were forced on deck once a day.

Slave auction

Young Harriet Tubman

Artwork showing Black troops under General Wild command Liberating slaves in North Carolina. (AP Photo)