Websites
- Black PastAn online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet.
- Wonders of the African WorldSupplementary website to historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series.
- Ghana: A Country Studyebook from the Library of Congress
- Slave VoyagesThe Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world.
Further Reading
Other novels you may like:
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
There There by Tommy Orange
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates
She would be king by Wayetu Moore
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Sing, Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende
Databases
- World History in Context This link opens in a new windowSearch for keywords or search terms relating to Ghana; i.e. Asante or Cape Coast Castle
- U.S. History in Context This link opens in a new windowSearch for key terms that you are curious about; i.e. "fugitive slave laws" or "middle passage"
Books
Videos
Podcasts
A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own (from PRI):