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1501-1866 Portugal transported 5,848,265 people from Africa to the Americas.

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Great Britain Slave Trade

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Spain Slave Trade

Spain Slave Trade
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BOOKS ONLINE

  • BRAWLEY, BENJAMIN; "A Social History of the American Negro"
  • Charter of the Dutch West India Company : 1621
  • CLARKSON, THOMAS; "An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African"
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789
  • DOUGLASS, FREDERICK; "Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass"
  • DOUGLASS, FREDERICK; "Fourth of July Speech"
  • DOUGLASS, FREDERICK; "My Bondage and My Freedom "
  • DOUGLASS, FREDERICK; "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
  • DOUGLASS, FREDRICK; "Speech on the Dred Scott Decision"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "Critiques Booker T. Washington"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "Freedmen's Bureau Pt. 2"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "Freedmen's Bureau Pt.1"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "The Conservation of Races "
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "The Negro"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "The Philadelphia Negro"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "The Quest of the Silver Fleece"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "The Souls of Black Folk"
  • DUBOIS, W.E.B.; "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America"
  • FONER, ERIC; "EXPERT REPORT"
  • GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD; "No Compromise with Slavery"
  • GARRISON, WILLIAM LLOYD; "The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power"
  • KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR.; "I have a Dream"
  • Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention
  • OLAUDAH EQUIANO; "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African"
  • Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery
  • The Federalist Papers
  • The History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
  • TRUTH, SOJOURNER; "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth"
  • U.S. Constitution
  • WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.; "Atlanta Compromise Speech"
  • WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.; "Up From Slavery: An Autobiography"
  • WOODSON, CARTER G.; "A Century of Negro Migration"

Slave Narratives

  • Aaron; "The Light and Truth of Slavery"
  • Ball, Charles; "Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave"
  • Bayley, Solomon; "A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware"
  • Bibb, Henry
  • Bruce, Henry Clay; "The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave,Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man"
  • Cugoano, Ottobah; "Narrative of the Enslavement of Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa; Published by Himself in the Year 1787"
  • Douglass, Frederick; "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"
  • Equiano, Olaudah; "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa"
  • Grandy, Moses; "Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America"
  • Keckley, Elizabeth Hobbs; "Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House"
  • Picquet, Louisa; "Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life"
  • Smith, Harry; "Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America"
  • Solomon Northup; "Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841"
  • Steward, Austin
  • Veney, Bethany; "The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman"
  • Washington, Booker Taliaferro; "An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work"
  • Watson, Henry; "Narrative of Henry Watson, a Fugitive Slave"
  • Williams, James; "A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica"
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