British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
Clock Tower Yard, Temple Meads, Bristol, BS1 6QH
0117 925 4980
www.empiremuseum.co.uk
Cowper and Newton Museum
Orchard Side, Market Place, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 4AJ
01234 711516
Email: cnm@mkheritage.co.uk
Relates to John Newton, a former master of a slave ship who wrote 'Amazing Grace' and took part in the anti-slavery movement.
Merseyside Maritime Museum
Albert Dock, Liverpool, L3 4AQ
0151 4784499
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Museum in Docklands
Museum in Docklands, West India Quay, Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL
0870 444 3851
www.museumindocklands.org.uk
National Maritime Museum
Park Row Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
020 8858 4422
www.nmm.ac.uk
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place, London, WC2H OHE
020 7306 0055
www.npg.org.uk
Wilberforce House Museum
25 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NQ
01482 613902
Email: museums@hullcc.gov.uk
Harewood House Trust Ltd.
Moor House, Harewood Estate, Harewood, Leeds, LS17 9LQ
0113 218 1010
www.harewood.org
Henry Lascelles, whose family built Harewood House, was one of the most successful traders of enslaved Africans and sugar merchants in the eighteenth century.
British Library Newspaper Library
Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HE
020 7412 7353
www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
Holds the Anti-Slavery Advocate (1852 - 1863), Anti-Slavery Recorder (1853) and other newspaper articles relating to the slave trade activities in Britain and America.
Hull Local Studies Library
First Floor, Central Library, Albion Street, Kingston Upon Hull, HU1 3TF
01482 210077
E-mail: local.studies@hullcc.gov.uk
Over 1,500 volumes on William Wilberforce, the abolition of slavery, and ancient and modern slavery.
Liverpool Central Library and Liverpool Record Office
William Brown Street, Liverpool, L3 8EW
0151 2335817
E-mail: refbt.central.library@liverpool.gov.uk
www.liverpool.gov.uk/libraries
Holds a range of books on slavery and the slave trade
Anti-Slavery International
Anti-Slavery International, Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard, Broomgrove Road, London, SW9 9TL
020 7501 8939
www.antislavery.org
Library contains contemporary and historical material on slavery and related subjects, including books, journals and reports.
House of Lords and House of Commons Library and Archive
Houses of Parliament, London, SW1A 0PW
020 7219 4372
E-mail: papers@parliament.uk
Holds legal and parliamentary history and original parliamentary Acts associated with slavery and its abolition.
Religious Society of Friends Library
Friends House, 173 - 177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
020 7663 1135
www.quaker.org.uk
Collection of rare historical documents on Quaker involvement with the early anti-slavery movement.
School of Oriental and African Studies
University College London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
www.soas.ac.uk/library
Large collection on Africa and the trans-Atlantic slave trade, including special collections of African missionary archives.
National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU
020 8876 344
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Collection of records relating to British imperial and colonial history. Visit the Moving Here section of the website which records migration experiences.
The Equiano Society
01689 812347
Rendezvous of Victory
www.rendezvousofvictory.org
Slavery, Emancipation and Abolition
www.brycchancarey.com
Contains information about slavery, emancipation, and abolition, including reading lists and a range of other sources.
Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation (WISE)
www.hull.ac.uk/wise
BBC History - Empire - Anti Slavery
In-depth article about Britain's move to abolish the slave trade in the 19th century.
Note: this is not an exhaustive list and you will find links to other useful websites and materials from those listed below. The websites listed were active in December 2007 when this list was compiled.
www.rememberingslavery.co.uk
Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums' website including information on events in 2007 and 2008 and downloadable resources (currently being updated).
www.understandingslavery.com
Educational resources including images and lesson ideas for teaching the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
Primarily related to school activities, it also contains references to accounts by enslaved Africans, slave systems, events, anti-slavery groups and legislation.
www.nottinghamschools.co.uk/eduweb
A range of school resources collated by the Ethnic Minority Achievement Grants Team.
www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence
Site aims to help teachers and educators to explore in detail the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Leeds Development Education Centre
0113 380 5655
Email: info@leedsdec.org.uk
Using South Yorkshire as a case study, it illustrates the central role of the process of colonialism in the economic, political and cultural development of Britain.
www.nmm.ac.uk/freedom
A Key Stage 3 resource about Britain and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
www.freetheslaves.net
An American website with downloadable material and lesson ideas for teaching modern slavery issues.
www.dur.ac.uk/4schools
Durham University Library's education zone. It aims to promote the study of the past by encouraging the use of primary source material. Find out what people who supported slavery thought and what motivated the anti-slavery campaigners to agitate for an end to slavery in the nineteenth century.
www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade
History on the net website, including a Middle Passage quiz.
www.cewc.org/fromslaverytocitizen.html
Suggestions on how to explain to school children that slavery was legal in British colonies until 1838.
www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk
Free lesson plans and resources on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the former British Empire.
www.free-at-last.org
Very user friendly website, based around an exhibition in London called Free at Last in 2007. The main focus of the exhibition was a replica of the Zong slave ship which sailed into London in March 2007.
www.gutenberg.org
Free e-books, including accounts by Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. Based in America so more useful for American slavery.
www.black-history-month.co.uk
Information about black history month.
www.100greatblackbritons.com
Examples of British black people with links to slavery.
www.blackpresence.co.uk
Useful introduction for the general reader.
www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/O/origination
This site, run by Channel 4, is a superb resource for anyone interested in the history of the black and Asian presence in the United Kingdom, from the earliest times to the present day.
www.channel4.com/culture
British culture including black history.
www.antislavery.org
See above
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1357_slavery_today
Explores some of the places where slavery is still common and takes a look at the fastest-growing problem in modern slavery; trafficking people into the west
www.freetheslaves.net
Free the Slaves is a non-profit organisation working to end slavery worldwide.
www.politics.co.uk
Source of links and forums on human trafficking.
www.christian-aid.org.uk/campaign/trade/basics.htm
Campaign for free trade.
www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/resources
Information on rights and social justice and International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.