US Slave

On the corner of St. Louis and Chartres streets in 1838, the St. Louis hotel opened. It was also called the City Exchange Hotel. Two years l...

St. Augustine Record , on 2 December 2001, "St. Augustine once a hub of slave trade," by Margo Pope: ST. AUGUSTINE -- Four ...

Slave Market, ca. 1850-1860 . New Orleans and Lexington, Kentucky, had active markets in "fancy girls," beautiful young girls an...

Among the enslaved people who were sold at this particular auction in 1855, were 23 individuals that ranged from infants to 60 years o...

Slave Market, Charleston, South Carolina "Slavery in Charleston: A chronicle of human bondage in the Holy City," by Brian Hicks,...

On February 17, 1865, Charles Carleton Coffin, a war correspondent for the Boston Daily Journal, traveled to Charleston to record the surren...

'Lincoln At New Orleans Slave Market' Image by Joseph Boggs Beale shows American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) (at left, i...

The William Barnwell House is a historic Building in Beaufort, South Carolina and is a part of the Beaufort Historic District. It was built ...

"Valuable Gang of Young Negroes," advertisement for a slave auction, 1840. Item # B0072. Emergence of Advertising in America. 20...

" Celia, A Slave, Trial (1855): An Account ," by Douglas O. Linder: For nineteen-year-old Celia, a slave on a Missouri farm, five...

Kosciuszko - Champion of Human Rights Kosciuszko’s Will “I, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, being just in my departure from America, do hereby declar...