Recovered Histories Website Launch

On 23 August, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade

and its Abolition, Anti-Slavery International launches its newest

website. Recovered Histories <http://www.recoveredhistories.org/> provides

insight into the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the struggle between

those seeking to maintain the trade and those fighting for its

abolition.

The website contains over 40,000 digitised pages of literature on the

slave trade, Recovered Histories: Reawakening the narratives of

enslavement, resistance and the fight for freedom, makes Anti-Slavery

International's collection of literature on the Transatlantic Slave

Trade widely available on the internet for the first time.

The website chronicles enslavement as an institution and an enforced way

of life; the Middle Passage; and triangular trade. Included are

arguments condemning and supporting the slave trade, evidence gathered

to present to Parliament in the 18th and 19th centuries, illustrations

of life on the plantations, and details of slave uprisings in the

Caribbean and the attempts by many enslaved Africans to liberate

themselves and determine their own futures.