The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington, in Pursuit of Liberty is a short piece of fiction, or novella, written...

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

12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years...

——, "The Heroic Slave." Autographs for Freedom, Julia Griffiths, ed., Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. pp. 174–239. Available at the Documenting...

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location...

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

John Punch (born 1605) was an African resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first slave. Thought to have been an indentured servant, Punch...

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery...

Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Douglass's first slave narrative memoir. The Heroic Slave, a Heartwarming Narrative of the Adventures of Madison Washington...

Douglass and 'The Heroic Slave'". American Antiquarian Society. Hawley, Michael C. (2022). "Light or Fire? Frederick Douglass and the Orator's Dilemma"...

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...

as a political revision of the sentimental novel (see David Walker's Appeal (1829) and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave (1852)). Dred himself is a...

was at the time still known by his birth name, Frederick Bailey. He changed his name to Douglass after his escape, because as a fugitive slave he was...

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 same...

book Twelve Years a Slave, which is the source for most of the information known about her. There have been two adaptations of the book in film, Solomon...

for being the second wife of Frederick Douglass. She also created the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, which became the Frederick...

many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery...

The treatment of slaves in the United States often included sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments like whippings. Families were...

Slave Songs of the United States was a collection of African American music consisting of 136 songs. Published in 1867, it was the first, and most influential...

documentation for most enslaved individuals. List of slaves Peter Fossett – Former slave (1815–1901), said to be the last survivor of enslavement by Thomas Jefferson...

she described the involvement of other African people in the business aspects of Atlantic slave trade. The manuscript, which was in the Alain Locke Collection...

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas....

ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves. Tom is a deeply religious Christian preacher to his fellow slaves who uses nonresistance, but...

collaborators. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard the slave ship for a three-month journey to Colonial America. The ship eventually left Africa...

services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved people. The following is a list of historical people who were enslaved...

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

spirit. The narrative of Beloved derives from the life of Margaret Garner, a slave in the slave state of Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state...

white Americans the plight of the children of the plantation: the offspring of black slave women and their white masters, who were legally the property of...

overseer threw a heavy metal weight, intending to hit another slave, but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which...

in combat in the Union Army. He fought for one of the first official African American units in the United States during the Civil War, the famed 54th Massachusetts...