Additional Resources

For additional information on the slave trade and slave life in the Americas, please visit:

            http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

To view the complete collection of Medford Slave Trade Letters 1759-1765, please visit:

            http://www.medfordhistorical.org
           

You may also view From Africa to Medford on the same site, which traces the growth of slavery in America.

Map of The Gullah Coast (South Carolina and Georgia)

            http://www.lorenzodowturner.com/images/map_gullahCoast.gif

Map of Sierra Leone (and Bense Island)

            http://www.mapshop.com/Travel_Maps/Africa/African-Country-maps/SierraLeone-9781553413950.jpg

Bense Island (large map)

            http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/collection/large/mariners18.JPG

The North-West Prospect of Bense Island on the River Sierra-Leone

            http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/collection/large/mariners17.JPG

The following website provides a guide from the 17th century onward for wages, prices, values of denominations by pence, shillings, to the pound sterling:

            http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/london-life/coinage.html

For information on contemporary slave trade:

            http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2003/21262.htm#tiers