When the "New World" needed cheap labor for its plantations, slave traders kidnapped Africans from their home villages. A "triangle trade" system forever changed the lives of an entire people. Explore this collection to learn what those slaves endured, and discover stories of other types of slavery such as forced labor camps in the Soviet GULAG.
Abraham Lincoln realizes that slavery is pulling apart the Union of American States and recognizes the country cannot hold together with such deeply d...
Wilberforce works to end the slave trade after trying to improve conditions for Britain's working poor.
Later testimony shows the horrific conditions on board the slave ships where many slaves died.
Slave trading continues in British Colonies and in the American South, even after Parliament abolishes the slave trade.
8-3.2 The role of SC in the Constitutional Convention including the Three-Fifths Compromise and Commerce Compromise
After his slave ordeal is over, Solomon Northup brings charges against the people who wrongfully sold him into slavery. Because a black person cannot ...
Olaudah Equiano was one of the first African slaves to live through slavery and then write about it.
Olaudah Equiano writes of his own experiences as an African child kidnapped into slavery.
African-American slaves are bought and sold like animals in the country's system of chattel slavery.
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