African American Voices
Ordered by chronology and topic

• Introduction
• Slavery in Historical Perspective
• Defining Slavery
• Slavery in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds
• The Newness of New World Slavery
• Justifications of Slavery
• Slavery in Africa
• Why Africa?
• Enslavement
• The Middle Passage
• The Slave Trade's Significance
• The Atlantic Slave Trade
• The Origins of New World Slavery
• Slavery in Colonial America
• The Diversity of Colonial Slavery
• Toward Slavery
• Slavery's Evolution
• The American Revolution and Slavery
• Antebellum Slavery
• What Was Life Like Under Slavery?
• Slave Labor
• Slave Family Life
• Slave Culture
• American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
• Slave Revolts and Resistance
• The Economics of Slavery
• Abolition
• The Experience of Liberation
• The Aftermath of Slavery

• Enslavement
• John Barbot
• Ayuba Sulieman Diallo
• Olaudah Equiano
• Venture Smith

• The Middle Passage
• James Barbot, Jr.
• Olaudah Equiano
• Alexander Falconbridge

• Arrival in the New World
• Olaudah Equiano
• Alexander Falconbridge

• Conditions of Life
• Solomon Northrup
• Charles Ball
• Josiah Henson
• Francis Henderson
• Jacob Stroyer
• James Martin

• Childhood
• Jacob Stroyer
• James W.C. Pennington
• Lunsford Lane

• Family
• Laura Spicer
• Josiah Henson
• Lewis Clarke

• Religion
• Olaudah Equiano
• Charles Ball
• Peter Randolph
• Henry Bibb

• Punishment
• Frederick Douglass
• John Brown
• William Wells Brown
• Moses Roper
• Lewis Clarke

• Resistance
• Frederick Douglass
• Nat Turner

• Flight
• Margaret Ward
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Henry ("Box") Brown
• Margaret Garner

• Emancipation
• Thomas Long
• Jackson Cherry
• Jourdan Anderson
• Rufus Saxon
• Samuel Thomas
• Francis L. Cardozo
• Elias Hill
• Henry Blake
• Frederick Douglass

This site was updated on 14-May-08.