America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses. The Terrible Transformation: Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide 1450-1750 Revolution: ...

From 1936 to 1938, over 2, 300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).

In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War. The records displayed in this ...

Holt House Table Of Contents History Of Slavery, 1790 to 1829 History Of Slavery, 1830 To The End Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism Compiled from Archive, library and Internet source documentation, this timeline on Slavery and in part the History of Racism, has been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of enslaved Americans of African descent at ...

Tabled version ---Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 2: 1750-1805 Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide Introduction The years 1450-1750 brought enormous changes to the North American continent. The native Americans, or Indians, as the Europeans came to call them, first encountered European explorers, and before long, saw their world transformed and largely ...

About DPLS Services Collection User Guides Crossroads Catalog Search Home On-Line Data Archive Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas, slave ...

Site presents information about the Underground Railroad, narratives and literature from some of those involved, maps and links to other Underground Railroad sites. Excellent for teachers and students.

Resources for the study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation in Britain and its colonies ...

African American Odyssey Introduction | Overview | Object List | Search Exhibit Sections: Slavery | Free Blacks | Abolition | Civil War | Reconstruction Booker T. Washington Era | WWI-Post War | The Depression-WWII | Civil Rights Era | Slavery--The Peculiar Institution Part 1: The Atlantic Slave Trade | Liberation Strategies Part 2 During the course of the slave trade, millions of Africans ...

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Chronological account of laws concerning slavery in the United States.

The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom is an exhibit which shows America in crisis and how that point in time was resolved. Slavery as an issue in America was in constant conflict with the founding Democratic principles of this nation. Slavery therefore became the ultimate test of disunity within the union of states which were already at odds in a democracy espousing freedom for its people.

Largest slaveholders from 1860 slave census schedules and surname matches for African Americans on 1870 census ...

Powerful images illustrate the conditions on the slave ships carrying Africans to the Americas.

The sixteen largest County slaveholders in the 1860 US Census, holding at least 500 slaves in one County ...

Lengthy article and collection of resources on the abolition of the slave trade in the United States from the Trade Environment Database (TED) project

Histories of the major slave revolts that convulsed the United States.

A slave owner took down the words of his dying slave, as a reproach to the institution of slavery.