US Slave

This whipping post from what was called the "negro jail" in Portsmouth, Virginia, was taken to upstate New York as a war trophy by...

To: Captain Josiah Thompson, of the s chooner Swift ) From: George Washington Date: July 2, 1766 Sir, With this Letter comes a Negro (Tom) w...

A CURIOUS CHAPTER IN NEGRO HISTORY.; The Maroons of Jamaica-- Their Origin and their Present Position. New York Times , Published: December ...

The Crisis Over the Slavery Issue by Karl Marx in Die Presse 1861 London, December 10, 1861 The United States has evidently entered a critic...

The Plantation Police, or Home Guard examining Negro passes on the levee road below New Orleans . (click on photo for larger view) The capti...

The casemate at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., where fugitive slaves once flocked to find freedom. The fort will be returned to state control ...

The UK Independent's article, "Perfect skins: How the fur trade shaped the future of the USA," by Samuel Muston, on 1 Octobe...

PBS Program: Secrets of the Dead "Slave Ship Mutiny" When the Meermin set sail from Madagascar for South Africa on a hot summer’s ...

Painted in the late 1770s by an unknown artist, the portrait shows two great-nieces of Lord Mansfield, who was Lord Chief Justice of England...

William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840 The Zong Massacre was an infamou...