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Historical interpreter Stephen Seals discusses the everyday lives and remarkable...
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An overview of the African slave trade, with a discussion of Zanzibar.
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Learn more about Virginia and its geography, people, economy, and history.
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Learn more about the Stono rebellion.
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Overview of Spartacus's life, including a discussion of the Gladiatorial War.
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Learn about slavery and human trafficking, especially in Europe.
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Museum director Ashley Rogers explains how the Whitney Plantation became the only...
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Learn about the origins of the transatlantic slave trade, which eventually became...
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Images
Group of formerly enslaved men, women, and children posing outside a building on...
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-cwpb-01005)
An 1836 letter from landowner Levi F. Hall of Florida, Missouri, to Jemima Hall,...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Mrs. W. F. Schweitzer, 1950 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Enslaved people cutting sugarcane on the Caribbean island of Antigua, aquatint from...
The British Library (Public Domain)
Slave Trade, print on paper by John Raphael Smith after George Morland,...
Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-P-1969-83)
Advertisement for the sale of enslaved people.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Advertisement for the sale of slaves, 1784.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Advertisement for the sale of slaves, 1784.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia. A typical commercial street in the American South...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-B8171-3608 LC)
Plans of a ship for transporting enslaved people, engraving, 1789.
The Newberry Library, Chicago (accession no. 307861)
Enslaved people prepare cotton for the cotton gin on a plantation near Beaufort,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Enslaved people picking cotton in Georgia during the 19th century.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic...
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Inspection and Sale of a Negro, engraving from the book Antislavery...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Clash between proslavery and antislavery groups in Fort Scott, Kansas Territory,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Cotton Pressing in Louisiana, wood engraving from Ballou's Pictorial...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans, 1842,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Engraving of a slave auction at Richmond, Virginia, from The Picture of Slavery...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Illustration c. 1870 from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...
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Compromises over extension of slavery into U.S. territories.
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