{"id":1782,"date":"2009-03-23T07:05:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:28:33","slug":"mar-25-commemorates-the-end-of-transatlantic-slave-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1782","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 25 Commemorates End of Transatlantic Slave Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2007, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations_General_Assembly\">United Nations General Assembly<\/a> designated March 25th as an annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/events\/slaveryremembrance\/index.shtml\">International Day for the Commemoration of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/taslavery.jpg\" alt=\"Economic growth... book's cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/><strong>You can research this topic at your University&#8217;s Library.<\/strong> A search of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> would find materials such as the Congressional committee hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/purl.access.gpo.gov\/GPO\/LPS93600\"><em>Legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor US documents collection Y 4.J 89\/1:110-63) and <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ZT1kLJOtt94C&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection HT1162 .E48 1987). Search the Library&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/indexes\/index.html\">article databases<\/a> to find <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/worldslavery.jpg\" alt=\"Encyclopedia of World Slavery cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>articles such as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/civil_war_history\/v054\/54.4.eltis.pdf\">The U.S. transatlantic slave trade, 1644-1867: An assessment<\/a>&#8221; in <em>Civil War History<\/em> (2008, vol.54, no.4, pp. 347-378). Use <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/refuniv.odyssi.com\">Reference Universe<\/a> to identify reference works to consult, such as <em>The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery<\/em> (2nd-floor Reference Collection HT861 .H57 1997).<\/p>\n<p>Among web sites of interest are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slavevoyages.org\/tast\/index.faces\">Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database<\/a> which has &#8220;information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries,&#8221; and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu\/Slavery\/index.php\">The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas:A Visual Record<\/a> which is a collection of more than a thousand digitized images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding additional materials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/gpologo.gif\" alt=\"Government Printing Office logo\" width=\"60\" height=\"58\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. 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