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.
Charley Williams shares his life story about what it was like to live as a slave on a plantation.
While helping to build a home for the Epps family, Platt (Solomon Northup) meets a Canadian man called Bass. That meeting will change Platt's life.
With an intermediate stop in Richmond (Virginia), Solomon Northup (now known by his slave-name "Platt") spends time in another slave pen before he boa...
Benjamin Banneker proves himself a genius, yet slavery continues even after it is illegal.
Those who help runaway slaves obtain freedom are punished.
American slaves rarely fight for their freedom.
John Quincy Adams, a former American President, argues the Amistad case to the Supreme Court using the Declaration of Independence.
Slaves who are brought to America to work the southern plantations have little "comfort and happiness."
Slave pens, in Washington, are near America's Capitol Building and the White House in 1841.
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