Slavery

Brazilian slaves

Receipt for purchase of a slave in 1840

Abyssinian slaves in Nubia

Cairo slave market

Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law cartoon

Abolition of the slave trade cartoon

Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri

First cotton gin

Slave woman and child

Slaves exposed for sale

Photo of former slaves in 1916

Abolitionist print from 1839 depicting slaves brought to United States

19th-century slave market in Brazil

Cartoon satirizing Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Joseph Cinque

Reconstruction political leaders

Title page and portrait from manuscript by David Walker

Thomas Nast cartoon Slavery is Dead

Plantation scene, Cotton Press

Plantation scene, Ration Day

Plantation scene Sowing

Plantation scene, Hoeing

Plantation scene, Plantation Graveyard

Plantation scene Saturday Evening's Dance

Freedmen's Bureau school

Map of Brazil from 17th century

Diagram of British slave ship

French soldiers are executed by Haitian revolutionaries

Title page from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Slaves on a plantation in South Carolina

Slave market at Pernambuco, Brazil in early 1820s

Brazilian slaves transport cask