Sitemap - 2022 - American Slave Stories
When slave and master's wife escaped, law sought both
A lynching in Pine Bluff, Ark.
Even indentured servants could be slave holders
Dr. Cartwright’s strange diagnosis
Slave holders confounded by slaves’ intelligence
At Civil War’s end, Marshall area had most slaves in Texas
No liberty, or justice, in Liberty, Miss
For Black men, mere accusation of sexual assault was often fatal
Nathan Bedford Forest: Slave trader
Escapees subjected to extraordinary measures to keep them confined
Escaping slaves needed geography skills to succeed
In rare cases, slaves granted freedom
Escape sometimes meant leaving family behind
Slaves often went shoeless even in winter
In slavery, odds were long against surviving
Even ill or disabled, slaves pushed to work on
Slave ‘pens’ a shameful reminder of the past
Escaping slaves often just wanted to be with families
This slave owner was out for blood
Phantom white man blamed for luring captive away
Slaves bound by endless, ever-changing rules
Texas ‘independence’ had roots in right to enslave
Finding freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp
Friends of Washington shared slave ownership
Child slaves were given little consideration
The incredible travails of a slave named George
In a slave’s America it was, ‘liberty and justice for none’
Could this slave have been a savant?
For persons of color, there was no freedom from slavery
Southerners tried hard to convince themselves that slavery was ‘humane’
Captured Africans showed an incredible ability to adapt
Slaves were expected to submit or be killed
Slaves did nothing wrong in escaping
Slave owners had to work to ease their guilt
Of slave hunters and somnambulists
Not all slave owners were in the wealth class
Owners tried, usually failed, to stop ‘Underground Railroad’
Don’t buy the old racist trope that slavery ‘protected’ Blacks
One reason Black men became ‘boys’
Health care for slaves almost nonexistent
Slavery stayed legal in some parts of the North until the 13th Amendment was ratified
Write me if you know of those who were slaves
Of genes and jeans, the life of an American slave
The ongoing project to give slaves an identity