US Slave

More negro-limning [drawings, illustrating] engaged me as I left Philadelphia next day for Baltimore. It was not, as it turned out, a cheer...

A Slave Sale at the Richmond Slave Market written and illustrated by EYRE CROWE The 3rd of March, 1853, is a date well imprinted on my memo...

The caption reads: "As We Found Them." This brother and sister were found wandering around on the battlefields during the Civil ...

This is a photograph taken by one of the Union Officers during the Civil War. Many children were orphaned or abandoned on plantations. The ...

Best known for 2005's critically acclaimed Greetings From Cairo, Illinois, Stace England emerged as an intriguing geographical yang to ...

Negress Lying Down, 1658

Slavery did not end in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 or even with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in ...

Sullivan's Island lies in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Small posts on the island provided good sea defense for the settlers...

In low-country South Carolina, American slavery assumed a distinctive form, one that has captured the attention of generations of historians...

"With forty or fifty pounds of rice stalks on their heads."

CAPE COAST, Ghana –Dusk settles on the ghostly slave castle here, and the shadowy figures walking, weeping in a daze are trying, and failing...

In the 15th century AD, Elmina was one of several port communities on the Ghana coast (aka Gold Coast) of western Africa, associated with th...

For nearly one hundred and fifty years before abolition in 1807, Cape Coast Castle on the African ‘Gold Coast’ was, in the words of one of i...

Goree: The Slave Island Goree Island is on the great western bulge of Africa - the nearest point on the continent to the Americas. The Sene...

"The man who smashed the garret door saw powerful male slaves, stark naked, chained to the wall, their eyes gouged out, their fingernai...

It was said that Mme. Lalaurie's manners were sweet, gracious and captivating. She was born in the society's upper circles. She was ...