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Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
List of the last surviving American slaves; List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon, George Washington's plantation; List of slave owners; Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom; 1926 Slavery Convention, an international treaty; 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery; Comfort women, sex slaves in WWII; Human trafficking
The following is a list of notable structures in the United States that were built, at least in part, by enslaved people: . Blue Ridge Railroad (1849–1870) – A railroad project in the southern United States
Cyane seized four American slave ships in her first year on station. Trenchard developed a good level of co-operation with the Royal Navy. Four additional U.S. warships were sent to the African coast in 1820 and 1821. A total of 11 American slave ships were taken by the U.S. Navy over this period. Then American enforcement activity reduced.
The statues of chained men, women and children stick hauntingly out of sand as simulated waves crash overhead, a symbol The post Expanded museum traces legacy of slavery in America appeared first ...
Negatives for the first two images may have been exposed on the same day, while the third photo was taken at a later time. [5] The original images of Peter and Gordon, and at least two other known photos of contrabands photographed by McPherson & Oliver, were taken in a "makeshift studio with a hanging sheet for a backdrop and bare ground". [21]
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
Plantation slavery had regional variations dependent on which cash crop was grown, most commonly cotton, hemp, indigo, rice, sugar, or tobacco. [3] Sugar work was exceptionally dangerous—the sugar district of Louisiana was the only region of the United States that saw consistent population declines, despite constant imports of new slaves.