The Internet is a wealth of information, and there are many unnoticed gems that tend to get overlooked. So the following is a list of links to digital collections, museums, networks and other online resources that can help to aid further research. Some of these you may know, but others you might have missed! Drop us a line if you know of any more excellent links. Enjoy the journey:

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS:

• Africana and Black History (New York Public Library, USA)
• African Art Exhibition of 1923 (Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, USA)
• After Columbus: Four Hundred Years of Native American Portraiture (NYPL)
• American Memory (Library of Congress, USA)
• Amistad Research Center (Tulane University, USA)
• Art from the George Arents Collection on Tobacco (NYPL)
• Atlas of Mutual Heritage (Rijksmuseum, NL)
• California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (University of California, USA)
• Making of America (Cornell University Library, USA)
• SAMUEL J. MAY Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University Library)
• World Digital Library (Library of Congress)

COLLECTIONS/ ORGANISATIONS (Specialist):

• Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA) (UK)
• Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia, USA)
• Future Histories repository for African, Asian and Caribbean Performing Arts (UK)
• Institute for the study of Academic Racism (Ferris State University)
• International Slavery Museum (Liverpool, UK)
• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia (Ferris State University, USA)
• Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, USA)
• Musée du Nouveau Monde (La Rochelle, FR)
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA)
• National Institute for the Study of Dutch slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee) (Amsterdam, NL)
• Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library, USA)
• W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research (Harvard University, USA)
• Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (University of Hull, UK)

NET-WORKS:

• Black Presence – Black History, Forums and News
• Creative Africa Network
• H-Slavery Discussion Network
• I am the Nu Black
• Sean Creighton: Social Action and Heritage
• SCI-CULTURA
• Writetalklisten

ONLINE FEATURES (Special Themes):

• Black British Style Exhibition Microsite (V&A, London)
• Black Performance feature (V&A, London)
• Coffee, Tea and Chocolate in early colonial America (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
• In Motion: The African American Migration Experience (Schomburg, NY)
• Mirror of Race: Early American Photography Online (Suffolk University, Boston)

TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE & ITS LEGACIES:

• African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
• African Survival and Creativity
• Anti-Slavery International
• Breaking the Chains (West Midlands, Birmingham City Council)
• Bristol and Slavery
• Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (Thomas Jefferson Foundation)
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807 (Parliamentary archives)
• Port Cities UK
• Royal Navy and the Slave Trade (Royal Navy)
• Set All Free (Churches together in England, UK)
• Trading Faces: Recollecting slavery (Future Histories)
• Uncomfortable Truths (V&A, London)
• A Virtual Visit of Gorée Island in Senegal (UNESCO Project)
• Wilberforce 2007 (Hull, UK)
• Yale, slavery and Abolition