Slaves and Slave Owners Chapters

When the "New World" needed cheap labor for its plantations, slave traders kidnapped Africans from their home villages. A "triangle trade" system forever changed the lives of an entire people. Explore this collection to learn what those slaves endured, and discover stories of other types of slavery such as forced labor camps in the Soviet GULAG.

Robert Newsom continuously rapes his slave, Celia.

Wilberforce is born wealthy and spoiled, but later becomes a great British politician.

With flies buzzing around him, from nearby stables, Tom Jefferson drafts a Declaration of Independence. Going against the norms of society, Jefferson'...

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