slave trade

Presents nearly two hundred historical documents that chronicle slavery's history throughout the world, covering the topics of slavery's definition, enslavement's origins and methods, slave laws, the slave trade, the experience of slavery, resistance, economics and demography, and abolition and emancipation.

In 1830, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave leading a dissolute life in New Orleans, finds himself forced into marriage.

Presents a short novel that centers on a slave rebellion on board a Spanish merchant ship in 1799.

Chronicles the history of the enslavement of human beings, covering the different types of slavery from the ancient world, to the medieval era, to slavery in Europe and the United States as practiced in the nineteenth century.

A kidnapped 13-year-old boy discovers that he is on a slave ship and is to play music for the human cargo.

In the early nineteenth century, when his sea-captain uncle invites him to assist the ship's surgeon on his next voyage, orphaned, fourteen-and-a-half-year-old Phillip, eager to be with family, accepts only to find out that his uncle is a slave trader.

Examines black history from 1440 to 1770, discussing the beginning of the human slave trade, European traders, transporting slaves across the Atlantic, and more; and includes a time line.

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

A history of the slave trade from ancient and medieval times to its abolition after the Civil War.