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Traces of the Trade is a documentary that examines one Rhode Island family's connections to the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. Go to the Traces of the Trade website to find educational guides and materials for use in teaching with this film.

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Barboza, Steven. Door of No Return: the Legend of Goree Island. 1st ed. New York: Cobblehill Books, 1994.

Captive Passage: the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.

Curtin, Philip D. Africa Remembered; Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Dow, George Francis. Slave Ships and Slaving. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc, 2002.

Harms, Robert W. The Diligent: a Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Oxford: Perseus Press, 2002.

Pollitzer, William S. The Gullah People and their African Heritage. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Thomas Velma Maia. Lest We Forget: the Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation. New York: Crown Pub. Inc, 1977.

Thornton, John Kelly. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Bailey, Anne C. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.

DeWolf, Thomas Norman. Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
The author, along with other members of his family, extensively research their family's heritage revealing their relationship to the most successful slave-trade family in American history.

Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Rediker, Marcus. The Slave Ship: A Human History. New York : Viking, 2007.

Curtin, Phillip D., ed. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade. Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, 1997.

Go to the film's website at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html for teacher's guides and additional information.

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In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.

Go to the film's website at http://www.upf.tv/upf06/Projects/PrinceAmongSlaves/tabid/77/Default.aspx for classroom materials.

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