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.
Sickened by the slave trade, William Wilberforce begins a 20-year quest to end the practice.
Writers of children's stories, who also abhorred slavery, wrote books to paint a vivid picture of American chattel slavery.
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After Abe Lincoln was elected President, in 1860, Southerners began to secede from the Union.
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Bass Reeves, a former slave who became a Deputy U.S. Marshal, understood several Native-American languages.
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