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.
This clip is from GULAG, a documentary by Angus Macqueen which tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist...
NOTICE: THIS VIDEO CLIP IS FROM A DOCUMENTARY ON THE GULAG AND SOVIET-ERA FORCED LABOR CAMPS.
Facing work in a new location, which has no shelter and no way to keep warm at all, Ivan Denisovich - prisoner C854 - welcomes being ill.
It is dark before Ivan Denisovich's team can return from their work at the power station.
Receiving a package from home is a great event for a prisoner, but every single item in the parcel is inspected by a guard before the prisoner can cla...
If the President and the Constitution seem to differ, the Supreme Court decides who will prevail. On two separate days in 1841 - the 24th of February ...
The Emancipation Proclamation is still debated today, what did it say and how did the country react?
Lincoln - a film directed by Steven Spielberg - is based, in part, on Team of Rivals (by Doris Kearns Goodwin).
During the Stalinist era, future-Nobel-Laureate Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner in a forced labor camp.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS HISTORICAL FOOTAGE AND RECREATED EVENTS WHICH MAY BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR SOME VIEWERS, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN. ...
As Jackie Robinson's popularity grew, so did the public's demand to know more about him. He was a great ballplayer, but what about his person...
A man of contrasts who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were born equal.
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