slave trade

A dual biography of Moses and John Brown, two Rhode Island brothers divided by the institution of slavery in the days before and during the American Revolution.

Presents a comprehensive examination of Northern slavery during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, and describes how Northern empires were build on profits from the slave trade.

Tells the story of the transatlantic slave trade and the impact of the Black presence in America and in Europe.

Offers a brief chronology of the slave trade in the United States, highlighting key events in the struggle to end slavery.

Describes the 1839 revolt led by Joseph Cinque aboard the illegal slave ship "Amistad" and the subsequent controversial trial in the U.S. that decided whether illegally captured slaves were free.

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.