The End of the Slave Trade: Myth or Reality

The following website discusses the following aspects of the Trans Atlantic slave trade:

• Resistance and Racism
• Why the Abolition Act of 1807 was passed
• The role the French Revolution played in Abolition
• Slavery after 1807

http://www.socialismtoday.org/108/slavery.html

Ports of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

The following website contains a paper written by Anthony Tibbles that highlights a number of the European ports which were engaged in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.

The following details are mentioned:

• The main European ports involved in the slave trade
• Reasons for the dominance of relatively few ports
• Concentration of the slave trade in a few specialist ports
• The legacy of the Slave Trade in the Architecture of the Ports
• The Black Population in the Slave Ports
• The Effect of the salve Trade on the Port Economies
• Trade Patterns after Abolition
• Acknowledgement of past involvement in the slave trade

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/resources/slave_trade_ports.aspx

Abolition

The following website contains the following information about the British Abolition Movement. It contains information about:

• Some of the main personalities of the movement
• Methods used by the Humanitarians to effect change
• The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
• The Post Abolition World.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/