Presents a comprehensive examination of the institution of slavery throughout the world, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times, and includes illustrations, maps, a timeline, glossary, cross-references, a bibliography, and an index.
Recounts the history of slavery and the slave trade in the United States discussing their causes, the slave experience, the Civil War, and Reconstruction and its aftermath.
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas.
Text, illustrations, and accompanying photographs present the story of Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. The artifacts from the ship are preserved at the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West, Florida.
Describes the history and practice of slavery, particularly the African slave trade--its origins, growth, and demise from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Frances Scott, the penniless niece of an English lord, agrees to marry Bristol trader Josiah Cole, an arrangement that provides her with a home and him with the social contacts he needs to build his business. However, she is forced to confront her need for love and liberty when Josiah brings the slave Mehuru to their house and assigns her the task of training the man, a former priest and aide to the King of Yoruba, to become a house servant.
In the 1860s, two African boys are taken captive and mistakenly left in the care of David Livingstone, whom they accompany on a quest to find a way to stop the slave trade and to open the interior of Africa to missionaries.
