Slavery, Globalization, and “The Columbian Exchange,” in 1570
Blaeu’s Hand-Colored Map of Africa, c. 1640, as Europeans Crave Sugar
1667 Manhattan Land Transfer to a Free Black’s Heirs
Our Foundation in Slavery – The Uncomfortable Truth About Harvard Law’s First Benefactor
Important Slave Trade Map with the Infamous African Slave Factories
The Terrible Middle Passage – Why This Image Fostered Abolitionism
Fabricating “a Negro Iron and fitting it on a wench”
Virginia’s Fine Tobacco Brings Great Wealth and “America’s Original Sin”
Cherokee Indian Sells His Black Slave, Amos
James DeWolf – New England’s Most Notorious Slaver, and The Triangle Trade
Ordinance Against Throwing Dead Bodies into Charleston’s Harbor
“A Good Likeness Of Sancho”
Ads Offering Slaves the Day Before the African Trade Ban Took Effect, and the Paper’s Own Reward for its Runaway Pressman
Peter Williams, Jr. – “An Oration on The Abolition of The Slave Trade”
Liberated Slave Testifies to the British Court of Admiralty about Sierra Leone Slave Factory on Bunce Island
Actual Evidence – A Bill of Sale for Slaves Sold off the Windward Coast of Africa After the Slave Trade was Banned
Black Seaman’s Declaration – And Why Frederick Douglass Borrowed One Like It
Denmark Vesey & Nat Turner Slave Rebellions – What was Learned and What was Suppressed
The Martial Response to Nat Turner’s Rebellion – And Why He Might Have Been More Successful
Reward Poster for a Runaway Slave
Insuring Slavers, Triangular and Internal Slave Trading, and the Rise of King Cotton
Slave Mutiny on the Amistad – Ex-President John Quincy Adams Defends Mutineers in U.S. Supreme Court
General Orders for U.S. Navy in Apprehending Slaverunners at Sea
The Cherokee Trail of Tears Included Their African American Slaves
1845 First Edition Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Public Sale of Estate Slaves in Missouri
Sale of 58 Named Slaves with Auctioneer’s Tally Sheet
The Infamous Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850
Shipping Prime Slaves to New Orleans
Charleston Slave Tag – The Sole Item Exclusively Made For and Worn by Enslaved Persons
Virginia Slave Flees Her Master While Visiting a Northern State
A Free Black Desperately Awaits Her “Free Papers” from Jail
Sen. Charles Sumner’s Congressional Plea to Repeal the Fugitive Slave Law
Antebellum Slave Shackles – How This Pair May Have Been Used
Dred Scott Decision – Slaves and Descendants Have No Rights
Evidence Purporting Illegal Use of the U.S. Flag in Transporting Slaves from Africa
An Officer Witnesses Hundreds of Slaves Drowning Off the West Coast of Africa
Aetna Slave Insurance Policy – May Have Had Unintended Benefits in Protecting Slaves
Diary of a Slave Overseer, Hardscrabble Plantation, Louisiana (1859-1861)
Diary of a Slave Overseer, Weekly Totals of Cotton Picked
Harriet Tubman – Biography of the Famous Underground Railroad Conductor and Insurrectionist
Abolitionist John Brown Invades (West) Virginia
Eyewitness Account of John Brown’s Raid on U.S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry
The Auction Block – A Family Concern for All Involved
Sojourner Truth – CDV and Her Rare Signature
