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Europe Reaches Out
Web Destinations
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- The Discovers Web
A site that has main "links" that gathers all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration.
- Thoughts Upon Slavery, 1774
For a first-hand account of how the slave trade was conducted read John Wesley (1703-91): Thoughts Upon Slavery, 1774. Wesley was opposed to slavery, but his account is interesting as it includes explicit descriptions of the way in which people were enslaved and treated. Additionally, Wesley's writing is an example of the moral force Evangelical Christianity.
- Columbus and the Age of Discovery
An excellent and searchable site of over 1100 articles on Columbus and the encounter of two worlds.
- James Ford Bell Library
Books, maps, and manuscripts in the James Ford Bell Library. Chronicle the development of global trade in the early modern period. The desire to obtain goods that they could not produce at home lured Europeans to travel, by sea or land, to far distant lands in search of these products.
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