Supplementary Materials

The National Underground Freedom Center
The National Underground Freedom Center’s web-site features an online virtual tour and exhibit of a slave pen from Mason County, Kentucky and highlights the story of an inter-state slave trader from Natchez, Mississippi, one of the locations where the Franklin and Armfield firm maintained an office.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Visit In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for an interactive look into The Domestic Slave Trade (1760s-1865) in the United States.

Mississippi Historical Society
Visit the Mississippi Historical Society’s online publication titled Mississippi History Now for a look at the Franklin and Armfield firm’s dealings in the interstate slave trade in Natchez, Mississippi, one of the centers for sales of enslaved persons in the South and home to one of several offices/slave pens belonging to the firm of Franklin and Armfield.

Public Broadcasting Service
Slavery and the Making of America is an online interactive website presented by PBS with such features as interactive timelines, audio recordings, and documentary resources that address the cultural, social and political experience of the enslaved. This website serves as an online companion to the PBS produced television series of the same name.

Slavery in America The Melrose Interactive Slavery Environment is accessible through the Slavery in America web-site, and it interactively allows students to experience the daily routine of enslaved women, men and children as lived on the ante-bellum slave estate of Melrose, located in Natchez, Mississippi.

Cornell University
To learn about the history of abolitionism, visit Cornell University’s online exhibit “I will be heard! Abolitionism in America,” featuring primary source documents that form part of the library’s collection. The exhibit includes such source materials as photographs, letters and manuscripts, which enhance the telling of the story of slavery and abolitionism in the United States.

The Eli Whitney Museum
The Eli Whitney Museum web-site offers insight into the history of the man that is the inventor of the cotton gin, the machine responsible for the development of the Cotton South, and the creation of a domestic market for enslaved labor in the states of the Deep South.