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.
During the 1930s, the federal government hired writers to obtain the oral histories of former slaves. William Moore was one of those interviewee...
Women of different races lived inside the plantation households of America's southern states. How did they view each other? How did their ...
This is a page from the Affidavit of Sengbe (also referenced as Singweh and/or Cinqué), leader of the Amistad rebels. The original docume...
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