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