Apr 272011
 

INTERNET

Housed at the Center for Gender Equity at the nonprofit Academy for Educational Development, this site functions as an archive describing the nature of the problems of labor and sexual exploitation of humans, broken out by country. There’s a link to the 10th Annual Trafficking in Persons report released in June 2010 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with coverage of 177 nations; despite some progress, millions continue to suffer modern forms of slavery while human trafficking remains a foremost concern in many countries.

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Apr 112011
 

Slavery Resources

Gale Databases – Gale Virtual Reference Library – History – American Civil War Reference Library – search for Slavery

 Gale Databases – Student Resource Center Junior – Slavery (Popular Topics, second column)

 ProQuest – type login, then click on My Products Page – SIRS Discoverer – Search for Slavery

 World Book – World Book Student – Search for Slavery

Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

Slavery in America http://www.history.com/topics/slavery

Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm

Children & Youth in History http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/141

African tribes and the slave trade http://moderntribalist.blogspot.com/2007/03/african-tribes-and-slave-trade.html

Slavery Africa, Europe, and Jamaica http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dreadlibrary/mclean.html

The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm

 Slave Ships South Carolina http://genealogytrails.com/scar/slave_ships.htm

The African Slave Trade in the Atlantic World http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site2/Mainpage.htm

 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

 Islam Resources

 Gale Databases – Gale Virtual Reference Library – Religion — World Religions Reference Library – search for Islam

Gale Databases – Gale Virtual Reference Library – Religion — Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices — search for Islam

 ProQuest – type login, then click on My Products Page – SIRS Discoverer – Search for Islam

 World Book – World Book Student – Search for Islam

 Russian Revolution Resources

 Digital Knowledge Central – Encyclopædia Britannica – Search for Russian Revolution, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin

 ProQuest – type login, then click on My Products Page – SIRS Discoverer – Search for Russian Revolution 1917

 World Book – World Book Student – Search for Russian Revolution of 1917

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