the 18th-century American colonial period, Fortune, his wife Dinah, and their four children, Africa, Jacob, Mira, and Roxa, were slaves of Preserved Porter...

PMFTC Fortune (name), a surname and given name Fortune (American slave) (c. 1743 – 1798), African-American slave Fortune (magazine), US Addis Fortune or...

family fortunes were founded on the exploitation of slaves, that is very different from saying that the whole society, or even its non-slave population...

Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships...

British Preventative Squadron and the American African Slave Trade Patrol, the abolition of slavery in the Americas, and the widespread imposition of European...

to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in...

Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during...

Slaves was an American post-hardcore group formed in Sacramento, California. The band consisted of bassist Colin Vieira, guitarists Weston Richmond and...

slaves who owned slaves. Although details varied, there were two broad cases: peculium slavery, and elite political slavery. A peculium was a slave's...

transatlantic slave trade and setting the stage for the interstate slave trade in the U.S. Over 50 years later, in 1865, the last American slave sale was made...

The Black Sea slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East...

Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born...

American ex-slave and businessman Dion Fortune (1890–1946), born Violet Mary Firth, British occultist and author Jesse Fortune (1930–2009), American Chicago...

6, 2024. "Peter Mills, Born a Slave, Dies at 110". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 23, 1972. p. 5. "Oldest American Claimants". Gerontology Research...

The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly Africans enslaved...

notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name...

A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially...

The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state...

The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850...

Nashville, laid the foundation of a princely fortune in the slave-trade, carried on from the Northern Slave States to the Planting South." Similarly, in...

Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951....

Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen...

1814–1884), African-American writer, escaped from slavery 1834. Wilson Chinn African American featuring in an 1863 photograph as "branded slave" Wulfstan, a...

1830–after 1863) was an African American enslaved woman. Solomon Northup wrote about her in his book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most...

Barack Obama's maternal African-American ancestry: tracing his mother's Bunch ancestry to the first slave in America", Ancestry.com, July 16, 2012. https://www...

the consciousness of many white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who...

The Slave Trade Act 1807 (47 Geo. 3 Sess. 1. c. 36), officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an act of the Parliament of the United...

Amos Fortune (c. 1710 – November 1801) was an African-American citizen of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the 18th century. Fortune was born in Africa and...

died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was...

Theophilus Freeman (c. 1800 – May 18, 1860) was a 19th-century American slave trader of Virginia, Louisiana and Mississippi. He was known in his own time...