All Links in Slavery

A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie

In the summer of 1700, the English merchant-slaver Henrietta Marie sank in unknown circumstances thirty-five miles west of Key West, Florida. Shortly before this mishap, she had sold a shipment of 190 captive Africans in Jamaica...... Read more

Caribbean Slave Narratives: Creole in Form and Genre

In Michelle Cliff’s novel Abeng (1984), Clare Savage and her father, Boy, spend an afternoon wandering through an abandoned plantation that once belonged to their ancestors, the white, slave-owning Savages. While the main house remains, only “faint gullies” mark the presence of the slaves. Like Clare Savage and author Michelle Cliff, I too am haunted by the shadows of West Indian slavery because, unlike in the United States, relatively few Caribbean slave narratives have come to light...... Read more

The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: Its Distinctive Features Shown b

An exposition of the American law of slavery designed to reveal the illegitimacy of the institution...... Read more

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War...... Read more

A free man of color tracks a maroon slave

Dompète or Dom Pedro was a new form of vodun or Voodoo that had been identified in the 1760s in Saint-Domingue's southern peninsula, not far from where this affidavit was filed. Strongly identified with Congo slaves, the largest African ethnic group on the southern peninsula, the Petro rite was associated with a formidable array of supernatural powers. In 1814 Drouin de Bercy identified the Petro cult as "the most dangerous of all the black societies..... Read more

The "Code Noir" (1685)

The Black Code Edict of the King Concerning the enforcement of order in the French American islands from the month of March 1685 Registered at the Sovereign Council of Saint-Domingue, May 6, 1687..... Read more

Slavery in the North

African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, that people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonies. Slaves were auctioned openly in the Market House of Philadelphia; in the shadow of Congregational churches in Rhode Island; in Boston taverns and warehouses; and weekly, sometimes daily, in Merchant's Coffee House of New York...... Read more

North American Slave Narratives

"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920...... Read more

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves...... Read more

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

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. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms...... Read more

On Slavery

Very often, the embalmers of Western history have tried to gloss over the sordid trade in African slaves by Europeans, for over four centuries, by putting up the argument that lot of Africans also made a fortune in the dealings. From these 'mythorians' we often hear the stories that slavery was rampant in Africa before the Europeans came along. Not only is slavery been argued away, the colonial oppression of Africa is also been massaged to make it appear less cruel...... Read more

Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery?

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, "We sold each other into slavery." Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites...... Read more

Breaking The Curse Of Willie Lynch

Specializing in African American History, health, Self Help, Ethnic Studies, Psychology and Business books. Published Black History Psychology Book Breaking The Curse Of Willie Lynch by Alvin Morrow...... Read more