Slavery History Image Collections.
Explore the collections of: Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas (University of Virginia) Archive of Early American Images (John Carter Brown Library)
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The Archeological Record.
The Digital Archeological Archive of Comparative Slavery allows researchers to view and compare archaeological assemblages and architectural plans from different archeological sites in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean during the Colonial and Ante-Bellum Periods. Analyze the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants at unprecedented levels of detail. DAACS is a community resource, conceived and maintained in the Department of Archaeology at Monticello, in collaboration with research institutions and archaeologists working throughout the Atlantic World.
Proclamation of December 2nd as International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery , December 2nd , marks the date of the adoption, by the United Nations General Assembly , of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others ( resolution 317(IV) of 2 December 1949). The focus of this day is on eradicating contemporary forms of slavery , such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation , the worst forms of child labour , forced marriage , and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.