Map of the triangular slave trade
William L. Ramsey, “A Brief History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
(Deep South Regional Humanities Center at Tulane University)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
2. The African Experience and the Middle Passage
Slave coffle, Central Africa 1861
From Steven Spielberg: Amistad, the flashback sequence (capture in Africa and the Middle Passage)
3. Slavery and the Black Diaspora
Slavery
Slave Narratives: “Charlie Moses”
Anthology of slave narratives on the Net
Quotes from slavery days
4. Segregation
Dorothea Lange: Plantation overseer
From Richard Wright: “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow; An Autobiographical Sketch” (1937)
Educational site on the history of Jim Crow
Abel Meeropol: "Strange Fruit" (PBS film about the song and its maker )
Lynching photos from James Allen's collection: Without Sanctuary
5. The Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream"
Audio clips of the speech
Mississippi Burning, instr. by Alan Parker, 1988
6. Modern America
From Studs Terkel, Race. How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992) “Ben Hensley”, "Clarence Page"
7. Africa - the New Colonialism
Male dungeon. Cape Coast Castle, Ghana 2002
Golda Armah-Idan, “Brain drain a national crisis”, The Daily Graphic, Oct. 15. 2002
Role Play about the Brain Drain phenomenon.
"In New York Tickets, Ghana Sees Orderly City", New York Times, July 22. 2002
Kari Dako, “On Bare-Chested Men” from The Baobabs of Tete and Other Stories (2002)