Slaves and Slave Owners Story Briefs

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.

A disaster occurs, for captured Africans, when a water shortage aboard a slave ship results in the deliberate killing of people (whom the crew and shi...

WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.

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