Found 281 results for "Slavery and bondage"
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
by John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.
By the end of the twentieth century, it became commonplace for African Americans to speak and write sensitively of the l...
by Frederick Douglass
In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that county, there is a small district of cou...
by Frederick Douglass, Mr.George L. Ruffin
IN Talbot County, Eastern Shore, State of Maryland, near Easton, the county town, there is a small district of country, ...
by Wood, Betty., Betty Wood
The adoption of chattel slavery by the English in their New World colonies had no clear precedent in either English law ...
by John W. Blassingame, John W. Blassingame
The chains of the American Negro's captivity were forged in Africa.
by David Brion Davis
IN 1770, on the eve of the American Revolution, African American slavery was legal and almost unquestioned throughout th...