from the Scout Report: > 12. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record > http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/ > > Funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (with technical > assistance from the Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library) > this rather engaging collection of several hundred photographs offers ample > visual documentation of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the daily lives of > slaves in the Americas over a period of several centuries. The materials > presented here were selected by Jerome S. Handler, a senior fellow at the > Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and ably assisted by Michael L. > Tuite, Jr., the head of the Digital Media Lab. The collection itself "is > envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, > researchers, students, and the general public." Visitors to the site may > search the entire archive by keyword, or by category. Some of the categories > include Marketing & Urban Scenes, Religion & Mortuary Practices, and Family > Life, Child Care, Schools. Each image is accompanied by a brief description > and, when available, information about each item's provenance. [KMG]