African Americans and Slavery

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Maroon runaway slave

 
 

Anna Kingsley
Essay on the Treatment and Management of Slaves (1852)
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Chronology on the History of Slavery
Harper's Weekly Black History
The Terrible Transformation
Medicine and Slavery: An Essay Review (Georgia Historical Quarterly, Fall 1979)

AFRICA
The Story of Africa (BBC)
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave Route Project: Landmarks and Relics of Slavery
Slavery and the African Slave Trade in Pre-Colonial Africa
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade And Ghana
 

CARIBBEAN
"Dreadful Idlers" in the Canefields: The Slave Labor Pattern on a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1762-1831
Freedom and Oppression of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
The Maroons: Dark Warriors of the Spanish Main
Montserrat Celebrates Slave Revolt
Past Glories Still Drive Maroons
Expedition to find missing slave ship
Slavery and spatial dialects on Cuban coffee plantations

THE SLAVE TRADE
Slave Catchers in Africa
Slave Ships
Slaves Processing Sugar
Slave Punishment
 

THE AMISTAD
Amistad
Amistad film censored in Jamaica
Thousands crowd Mystic Seaport to watch launch of Amistad replica

LATIN AMERICA
Slave Prices in Cuba, 1840-1875 The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 67, No. 4. (Nov., 1987), pp. 631-655.
Statistics of the Slave Trade to Cuba, 1790-1867 Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2. (Nov., 1971), pp. 131-149.
Fugitive Slaves in Mexico. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 57, No. 1. (Jan., 1972), pp. 1-12.
 
 

UNITED STATES
Colonial Slavery
Southern Slavery
Southern Plantations
Slave Advertisements
African American Religion
Southern Reconstruction
 

MILITARY
A Chronology of African American Military Service
Black Confederates
U.S. Colored Troops
Civil War Contrabands
Freedman's Bureau
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE U.S. NAVY
Flogging in the U.S. Navy
Commander V. Randolph to Commodore Parker, July 12, 1849
Watson G. Haynes to Secretary U.S. Navy, Nov. 19, 1849
Commodore Parker to Secretary U.S. Navy, Sept. 6, 1851
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON WHITES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas (Charleston Courier, Feb. 22, 1864)
 

MODERN SLAVERY
Brazilian government team frees hundreds of slaves
The Journey of a 15-Year-Old From Mali Who Sold Himself Into Bondage
Slavery is widespread, reports international crime conference
 

GENERAL
'African-American' Becomes a Term for Debate
Brazil's Former Slave Havens Slowly Pressing for Rights
DNA Tests Offer Evidence That Jefferson Fathered a Child With His Slave
DNA tests suggest Jefferson fathered child with slave
From Washington Abolition Of Slavery
The Heights of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health
Slave descendants to sue Lloyd's
More Africans Enter U.S. Than in Days of Slavery
Preserving a heritage
A Big White Lie