T'he World Wide Web has become an incredibly useful resource in classrooms across America. Search engines such as or Ask Jeeves at have grown in popularity for students and teachers looking for the population of China, for example, or the story of the discovery of or even the languages spoken in New Guinea. web, however, sometimes provides us with too much information. Typing in returns three hundred web sites that we must sift through, one by one, to find a web site with the information we need. A search for also returns informa tion ranging from slavery in ancient Egypt to slavery in America to lyrics to songs containing the word slavery. Even when we stumble upon a good web site, it is often hard to know whether its information is credible. In my quest for good web sites on colonial slavery, I was interested to find that web sites deal with the Proclamation and the years following the Civil War more fre quently than with the topic of slavery itself. In other words, the web sites tend to focus on the positive parts of African American history rather than the parts that we, as Americans, would rather forget. Nevertheless, there are a number of excellent web re sources specifically covering the Atlantic Slave Trade and the portion of slavery exclusively related to the American colonies. A number of sites offer compilations of slave narratives. Professor Steven Mintz of the University of Houston edited and organized a collection titled Excerpts from Slave Narra tives at . narratives are divided into sections, such as Enslavement, Conditions of Life, Family, and Emancipation, each de tailing an aspect of slave life from the perspectives of slaves, slave traders, and physicians. Both the University of Virginia, at , and the Library of Congress's American Memory page, Born in Slavery at , feature inter views with former slaves collected by journalists and writers from the Works Progress Administration from 1936-1938. Visitors to the Library of Congress's site can search for narratives by keyword, narrator, or state. Both sites offer photographs of interviewees, and the University of Virginia site offers links to sound clips of some of the interviews. Both sites transcribe the interviews phonetically, so some narratives are difficult to read with the written dialects. At , Brycchan Carey, a lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University in the United Kingdom, created a page specifically about Olaudah Equiano, whose life is chronicled in his autobiography, Interesting Narrative ofthe Life of Olaudah Equiano (1791). site includes a biography of Equiano, a map of his travels, a bibliography of his studies, excerpts from the autobiography, portraits of Equiano, and related web sites and books. Carey's home page, offers a more comprehensive list of links to information about slavery, abolition, and emancipation. link, Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation leads to more resources on slavery, including books and poems on slavery and information on the lives of two other slaves, Ignatius Sancho and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. PBS's site, Africans in America, at , is based on a series of the same name which first aired in October 1998. site covers 1450 to 1865?from the beginning of slave migration across the Middle Passage to the abolition movement. It is chronologically divided into four parts: The Terrible Transformation (1450-1750), Revolution (1750-1805), Brotherly Love (1791-1831), and Judgment Day (1831-1865). Each part includes a narrative section, a resource bank of people, events, historical documents,