Modern History: The Historical Investigation 2025: Slavery

A detailed resource created by the National Museums Liverpool (UK) on the History of Slavery covering: The Translatlantic Slave Trade, West Africa, the Middle Passage, Europe, The Americas and Abolition.

Comprehensive overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from the Equal Justice Initiative. The EJI is an organisation committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society

A timeline of slavery in the US created by the Jim Crow Museum.

A history of slavery in Canada from the Canadian Museum of History

History in Focus invited eight academics to write short pieces on various aspects of slavery, the slave trade and its abolition from their own research perspectives.

William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the history of slavery in their Empire podcast.

Slave narratives compiled by the US Library of Congress

A recording of an academic discussion on the Transatlantic Slave Trade from 2017. From University of Oxford.

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the most important examples of forced migration in human history. While slavery in the U.S. is well-documented, only ten percent of the slaves imported from Africa came to the United States; the other ninety per cent were disbursed throughout the Americas—nearly half went to Brazil alone. Where did they go? What did slavery look like in other parts of the New World? And what are the lingering effects on the modern world?
A podcast series from the University of Texas.
Check out the other episodes on slavery (scroll to the bottom).

A hundred years before the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, Europeans introduced the commercial practice of enslavement in “The New World.” And for the next 400 years, millions of Indigenous people throughout the Americas were enslaved through several forms of forced labour and bondage.

A BBC News World Service podcast: explores the Imperial Japanese Army's practice of forcing hundreds of thousands of Asian women and girls into sexual slavery between 1932 and 1945.