Brutal physical punishment, psychological abuse and endless hours of hard labor without compensation drove many slaves to risk their lives to escape plantation life. The death of a master usually ...

William Wilberforce used the model during the Abolition Campaign to demonstrate the horrors of the Middle Passage.The model was based on an actual slave ship built in Liverpool in 1780-81 and co ...

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation. . . The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for ...

The headstone reads: "Today and always, we honor the enslaved Hintons of the Midway Plantation ... living in Wake County who owned more than 100 slaves. Charles Hinton was one of the few men ...