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American Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights Timeline
ushistory.org, created and hosted by the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia. Colonial and Revolutionary history centered in Philadelphia, PA.
http://www.ushistory.org/more/timeline.htm
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Slavery and the Making of America
Slavery and the Making of America - Timeline - PBS - Slavery and Reconstruction In The United States.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/
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Slavery in America History Timeline
Follow the timeline to learn more about black history in America and the history of slavery in the United States.
http://www.infoplease.com/timelines/slavery.html
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The Brutality of Slavery
Until the 1670s, the bulk of forced labor in Virginia was indentured service (largely white, but some Negro); Negro slavery was negligible. In 1683 there were 12,000 indentured servants in Virginia and only 3,000 slaves of a total population of 44,000.
https://mises.org/library/brutality-slavery
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Slave Life and Slave Codes
Life on the fields meant working sunup to sundown six days a week and having food sometimes not suitable for an animal to eat. Plantation slaves lived in small shacks with a dirt floor and little or no furniture.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp
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Pathways to Freedom - About the Underground Railroad
Use the links below or the navigation at the top to learn the basics about the Underground Railroad - what it was, how it worked and why it was necessary.
http://pathways.thinkport.org/about/
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Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved, Freedom's Story - National Humanities Center
was a period of tremendous political complexity and far-reaching consequences.
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/reconstruction.htm
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Reconstruction - American Civil War - History
The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) introduced a new set of significant challenges.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
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Reconstruction, America's First Attempt to Integrate - African American Registry
One of the most controversial and misunderstood eras in American history, Reconstruction witnessed far-reaching changes in the country's political and social life. The United States government for the first time assumed the basic responsibility for defining and protecting American civil rights.
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/reconstruction-americas-first-attempt-integrate
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Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel slavery that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries after it gained independence and before the end of the American Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
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Slavery in the United States - Civil War
When the North American continent was first colonized by Europeans, the land was vast, the work was harsh, and there was a severe shortage of labor. Men and women were needed to work the land. White bond servants, paying their passage across the ocean from Europe through indentured labor, eased but did not solve the problem.
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/slavery.html?referrer=https://www.google.com
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Facts about Slavery and the Slave Trade
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million had arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all of long-distance global migrations.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
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Four Myths about Slavery in the US
The elephant that sits at the center of our history is coming into focus. American slavery happened - we are still living with its consequences.
http://www.rawstory.com/2014/10/four-myths-about-slavery-in-the-us/
