The slave trade: slavery and color

North American slave narratives

International trafficking in women to the United States a contemporary manifestation of slavery and organized crime

Many thousand gone : African Americans from slavery to freedom

American slavery as it is testimony of a thousand witnesses

God's image in ebony being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Considered, postponed to, and made the special order of the day for Wednesday next, at 1 o'clock. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, that, in the adoption of the federal Constitution, the states adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the federal government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign ..

In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lane submitted for consideration the following resolution. Whereas, in the years 1847-48, the northern states of this Union, by their legislatures, and almost with unanimity, adopted resolutions in favor of what was called the Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery in all the territory acquired from Mexico, and the southern states soon afters [sic] passed counter resolutions declaring they would resist that measure ..

Assessment of U.S. Government activities to combat trafficking in persons