As one of the most outstanding works about slavery in America, My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass discloses numerous significant moral issues. Being the narrative about Douglass’ own life experience, the book demonstrates his long path to escape slavery. The chapters from eleven to twenty-one depict the complexities...

Breen and Innes' Myne Owne Ground is a book that seeks to address the a period in US history in which, according to the authors, an extraordinary level of freedom was achieved by formally bonded black Americans. As such, the book aims to bear witness to belief period of historical...

The historical framework of anti-slavery in America was briefly at the table for discussion during the creation of the United States Constitution but with powerful influences particular to those representing the interests of Colonial Virginia the issue went unresolved. Through strong anti-slavery politics that remained inherent in the northern states...

Melton McLaurin in the book Celia, a Slave, offers a detailed description of the life of a female slave, Cecilia in Calloway County, Missouri. She was purchased as a slave at the tender age of 14 in 1850. Celia the slave kills her master, Robert Newsome and burns his body...

The history of slavery is part of a broader story of human trafficking and forms of slavery exist to this day. The history of slavery which was reformed, such as the trade in African slaves to North America and the Caribbean in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries is not...