Search Results for: Life Under Slavery

Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. This important collection examine

When the African people were first brought to the New World, estranged from their homeland, they adapted their native rituals, religions, customs, language, and

Ten slaves—all under the age of 19—tell stories of enslavement, brutality, and dreams of freedom in this collection culled from full-length autobiographies.

Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defec