Slavery: Did you mean...?

Historian and author Carrie Gibson discusses the long and complex struggle to end slavery across the Americas. Rather than focusing on a single national event, she explores how abolition was a deeply...

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What was life like for an enslaved person in America? This program explores the daily life and customs of enslaved children and adults from Colonial Times through...

Historians and experts examine the American system of racialized slavery and the hypocrisy it relied on to function.

"What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?" is Frederick Douglass' masterwork of oration, delivered on 5 July 1852 at the Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. Also sometimes...

This video is about Henry Brown, the man who made a sensational escape from slavery. His story is chronicled in his two autobiographies: 'Narrative of Henry Box Brown Who Escaped From Slavery...

We don't associate slavery in America with New England states, but perhaps you need to learn a little more about this. This is the second of three US History Online videos...

A story done by ABC News in 1999 about slavery as told by people who were slaves. Recorded in the 1930's and 1940's.

We've been talking a lot about kings, and queens, and wars, and religious upheaval for most of this series, but let's take a moment to zoom out, and look at the ways that individuals' lives were changing...