slave trade

Alex Cross battles a ruthless and powerful killer, a master criminal and shadowy figure known only as the Wolf, who appears to be behind a terrifying business in which ordinary men and women are kidnapped and sold as slaves.

Contains primary and secondary source documents that describe the economics of the triangular trade system during the eighteenth century which perpetuated the sale of slaves.

A historical account of the Atlantic slave trade, beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions in the 1400s, and ending in Cuba and Brazil twenty-five years after the American Civil War; discussing the economic impact of the slave trade, and examining the reasons why African kings participated in the enslavement of their people.

A visual chronicle of the early years of the slave trade, following the course of the Henrietta Marie, a slave ship recently recovered from the waters off the coast of Key West, Florida, on the first of its slaving voyages in the late 1600s, from London to the west coast of Africa, to the colonies of the Americas, and back to Europe.

Examines the history of the rebellious African slaves and their triumph in gaining their freedom from Spanish and American slavers by overtaking their slave ship, the "Amistad.".

A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.

Chronicles the history of slavery, describing the trans-Atlantic trade that brought eleven million slaves from Africa to the Americas over the course of three hundred years.

Follows the slave trade from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to its abolishment after the Civil War, and describes slavery's impact on the people bought and sold.

Thirteen-year-old Hamilton Jones seeks revenge against the former captain of the ship on which his mother had been taken from Africa to slavery in the Colonies.