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Slavery and the Slave Trade (G-Z)

Slavery and the Slave Trade (G-Z)

  • Illegal Slave-Trading: Stories of slaves after Parliament disallowed slave-trading

  • Kidnapping an African Child for Slavery: First-hand description by Olaudah Equiano

  • Kidnapped Africans: The journey to slavery

  • Life on a Plantation: First-hand description of life as a plantation slave

  • Mexico and Anti-slavery Laws: Conflicted with Anglo development in Texas

  • "Middle Passage" - Myths: Proponents of slavery and their statements about slaves aboard ship

  • "Middle Passage" - Reality: Evidence (with pictures and audio/video) about the transport of kidnapped Africans to the New World

  • Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Story of the slave-turned-abolitionist, originally named Isabella Baumfree - (see first bullet)

  • Newton, John: British slave trader

  • Newton, John: Wrote the song, "Amazing Grace"

  • Reading Prohibited for American Slaves: "Would forever unfit him to be a slave"

  • Runaways: First-hand description of escape efforts

  • Shipboard Life - Description by Slave Trader: John Newton's journal gives glimpse into life of slaves in transit

  • Slave Homes: In the American South

  • Slaves as Property: Pictures of buying and selling people in the American South

  • Slaves at Work: Pictures of slave life in the American South

  • Slave Ships: A first-hand description

  • Slave-Trade: Its Beginnings

  • Soviet Gulag: Slavery in Forced Labor Camps

  • Sudan: Historical slave-trading

  • "Terrible Time" of Slavery: First-hand description of life as a slave

  • Triangle Trade: Three-pronged trade routes (including animated maps)

  • Turner, Nat: Leader of a slave uprising

  • Underground Railroad - Trips: First-hand descriptions of escaping on the underground railroad

  • United States - Transatlantic slave trading disallowed, 1808

  • Wallace, William: "Never live within the bond of slavery" - Wallace monument in Scotland

  • Wesley, John - Description of Amerian Slavery: "Vilest that ever saw the sun"

  • Wheatley, Phyllis: First U.S. African-American poet

  • Wilberforce, William: Appeal on Behalf of the Negro Slaves

  • Wilberforce, William - Beginnings: Early years not concerned about ending slave trade

  • Wilberforce, William: How he became concerned about slaves and the slave trade

  • Zong Captives: Intentional killing of slaves to increase amount of insurance recovery