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• Catherine Ancholou on the importance of Equiano's narrative
• Catherine Ancholou on how Africans reacted to the possibility of being stolen into slavery
• Catherine Ancholou on Equiano's family's reaction when told about Equiano's story
• Catherine Ancholou on Equiano's people
• Catherine Ancholou on the difference between African slavery and American slavery
• Cornelia Bailey on Butler Island and slave life
• Cornelia Bailey on the Weeping Time
• David Blight on the formation of the Royal African Company
• David Blight on the meaning of British participation in the slave trade
• David Blight on the Declaration of Independence and morality
• David Blight on Jacksonian democracy
• David Blight on minstrelsy
• David Blight on racism in the abolitionist movement
• David Blight on William Lloyd Garrison
• David Blight on David Walker
• David Blight on Pennsylvania Hall
• David Blight on slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin
• David Blight on the Dred Scott decision
• Timothy Breen on the relationship between black slaves and white indentured servants
• Catherine Brekus on Jarena Lee
• Catherine Clinton on the Weeping Time
• Thomas Davis on the first Africans in Virginia
• Thomas Davis on Anthony Johnson
• Thomas Davis on the differing visions of European settlers
• Thomas Davis on how Europeans handle labor in the New World
• Thomas Davis on the fears about the Spanish and Native Americans
• Thomas Davis on the reality in Jamestown
• Thomas Davis on what is unique about America between 1750 and 1800
• Thomas Davis on the impact of the Stono Rebellion on slaveowners
• Thomas Davis on the empowerment of Africans and the Stono Rebellion
• Thomas Davis on the long-term impact of the Stono Rebellion
• William Dunsinberre on the Weeping Time
• Douglas Egerton on the black support for the ACS
• Douglas Egerton on black response to colonization
• Douglas Egerton on the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Jefferson
• Douglas Egerton on the "positive good" theory of slavery
• Douglas Egerton on cotton
• John Ferling on Washington as a slave owner in Virginia
• John Ferling on Washington's attitudes towards slaves
• Eric Foner on the abolitionist movement
• Eric Foner on abolitionists and violence
• Eric Foner on the abolitionist vision
• Eric Foner on David Walker
• Eric Foner on slavery
• Eric Foner on the Fugitive Slave Act
• Eric Foner on the role of westward expansion
• James Horton on the legacy of slavery
• James Horton on antebellum slavery
• James Horton on Harpers Ferry
• James Horton on Bleeding Kansas
• Noel Ignatiev on the Civil War and emancipation
• Noel Ignatiev on the role of westward expansion
• Charles Joyner on the origins of the South Carolina colony
• Charles Joyner on the arrival of the Barbadians in South Carolina
• Charles Joyner on the origins of rice culture
• Charles Joyner on preparing the land for rice cultivation
• Charles Joyner on the task system in Carolina
• Charles Joyner on the Stono Rebellion's impact on slavery
• Charles Joyner on the Middle Passage
• Norrece Jones on the early status of Africans in Virginia
• Norrece Jones on the relationship between white and black children
• Norrece Jones on Mt. Vernon
• Norrece Jones on kidnapping and class
• Norrece Jones on Butler Island and slave life
• John Kaminski on the Declaration of Independence
• John Kaminski on the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence
• John Kaminski on post-war America in the 1780s
• John Kaminski on the word "slavery" in the Constitution
• Emma Lapsansky on the American Society of Free Persons of Colour
• Emma Lapsansky on kidnapping in Philadelphia
• Emma Lapsansky on Philadelphia
• Jeffrey Leath on Philadelphia
• Nell Irvan Painter on northern racism
• Nell Irvan Painter on soul murder and slavery
• Asoka Perbi on the impact of kidnappings on people's lifestyles
• Colin Powell on the Declaration of Independence and how it applied to black people
• Colin Powell on the spirit of liberty
• Colin Powell on blacks fighting during the Revolutionary War
• Albert Raboteau on Allen's reaction to the ACS
• Albert Raboteau on Jarena Lee's conversion
• John Riley on Washington's position in 18th century Virginia
• Fath Ruffins on the division of slave labor
• Fath Ruffins on the supervision of women slaves
• Fath Ruffins on slavery's decline at the end of the Revolutionary War
• Fath Ruffins on free blacks at the end of the Revolutionary War
• Fath Ruffins on blacks' reaction to Dunmore's Proclamation
• William Scarborough on the South and the abolitionist movement
• William Scarborough on David Walker
• William Scarborough on antebellum slavery
• William Scarborough on the Civil War and emancipation
• William Scarborough on Bleeding Kansas
• Julius Scott on John Brown Russworm and the Haitian Revolution
• Barry Unsworth on desperation of European slave traders
• Barry Unsworth on how slave traders kept control of the ship
• Barry Unsworth on what drew Europeans to be slave traders
• Barry Unsworth on how slavers looked upon the Africans
• Barry Unsworth on the slave crew
• Barry Unsworth on the Middle Passage
• Barry Unsworth on the threat of fasting during the Middle Passage
• Margaret Washington on the change from indentured labor towards enslaved labor
• Margaret Washington on Virginians' concerns about white and black servants
• Margaret Washington on the earliest Africans in Virginia
• Margaret Washington on Jemmy, the leader of the Stono Rebellion
• Margaret Washington on the idea of freedom for Stono rebels
• Margaret Washington on the impact of the Stono Rebellion
• Margaret Washington on the rise of Africans' concern after the Stono Rebellion
• Margaret Washington on the relationships between Europeans and Africans
• Margaret Washington on Elizabeth Freeman
• Margaret Washington on the formation of maroon communities
• Margaret Washington on Colonel Tye
• Margaret Washington on the impact of the cotton gin
• Margaret Washington on Philadelphia
• Margaret Washington on Jarena Lee's conversion
• Margaret Washington on moral suasion
• Margaret Washington on northern racism
• Margaret Washington on Harriet Jacobs
• Margaret Washington on Butler Island and slave life
• Deborah Gray White on the relationship between white and black children
• Deborah Gray White on the Revolutionary period
• Deborah Gray White on northern racism
• Deborah Gray White on the legacy of slavery
• Deborah Gray White on the importance of family
• John Edgar Wideman on the Yellow Fever epidemic
• Julie Winch on black support for the ACS and the Bethel meeting
• Julie Winch on the economic impetus for kidnapping
• Julie Winch on the kidnapping of children
• Julie Winch on Jones' and Allen's response to Carey
• Betty Wood on the early status of the Africans in Virginia
• Betty Wood on the propaganda to settle the New World
• Betty Wood on the Europeans' reaction to Native Americans
• Betty Wood on why the English did not use Native Americans for their work force
• Betty Wood on the implications of tobacco on labor needs in Virginia
• Betty Wood on Francis Le Jau's attitude towards the institution of slavery
• Betty Wood on Christianity and slavery
• Betty Wood on Le Jau's journals and Christianity
• Betty Wood on Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia
• Betty Wood on blacks fighting in the American Revolution
• Betty Wood on blacks leaving the U.S. with the British
• Betty Wood on Dumore's Proclamation and the fear of slave rebellion
• Betty Wood on controlling slaves after Dunmore's Proclamation
• Betty Wood on the significance of Dunmore's Proclamation
• Peter Wood on the Africans' arrival in 1619
• Peter Wood on inheriting the mother's slave status
• Peter Wood on the shift from indentured servitude to lifelong slavery
• Peter Wood on the difference between being a slave and a servant
• Peter Wood on the meaning of indentured sevants
• Peter Wood on the Africans' experience
• Peter Wood on the first settlers who come to America
• Peter Wood on the need for labor in Jamestown
• Peter Wood on English Protestantism
• Peter Wood on the evacuation of slaves in New York
• Peter Wood on black men during the Revolutionary War
• Peter Wood on Dunmore's Proclamation's effect on the war




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