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ContentsI. Europeans Come to Western Africa
A. People & Events
• Prince Henry the Navigator
• Elmina Castle, trading outpost and "slave factory"B. Historical Documents
• The Arrival of Europeans in Africa
II. New World Exploration and English AmbitionA. People & Events
III. From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery• The Virginia Company of London
• Jamestown Settlement
• English saved by Native AmericansB. Historical Documents
• The Hope of Jamestown
• Landing of Negroes at Jamestown from a Dutch Man-of-War, 1619
• The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam in 1655
• A Way to Get WealthC. Modern Voices
• Thomas Davis on the differing visions of European settlers
• Thomas Davis on how Europeans handle labor in the New World
• Thomas Davis on the fears about the Spanish and Native Americans
• Thomas Davis on the reality in Jamestown
• Charles Joyner on the origins of the South Carolina colony
• Betty Wood on the propaganda to settle the New World
• Betty Wood on the Europeans' reaction to Native Americans
• Betty Wood on why the English did not use Native Americans for their work force
• Peter Wood on the first settlers who come to America
• Peter Wood on the need for labor in Jamestown
• Peter Wood on English Protestantism
• Betty Wood on the implications of tobacco on labor needs in Virginia
A. People & Events
IV. The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage• Anthony Johnson
• Arrival of first Africans to Virginia Colony
• Africans in court
• Virginia looks toward Africa for labor
• Virgina recognizes slavery
• Royal African Company established
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Samuel Sewall speaks out
• Virginia's slave codesB. Historical Documents
• Portrait of a Negro
• Portrait of the Moorish Woman Katharina
• Colonial laws
• Court document regarding Anthony Johnson
• The Selling of JosephC. Modern Voices
• David Blight on the formation of the Royal African Company
• Timothy Breen on the relationship between black slaves and white indentured servants
• Thomas Davis on the first Africans in Virginia
• Thomas Davis on Anthony Johnson
• Norrece Jones on the early status of Africans in Virginia
• Barry Unsworth on desperation of European slave traders
• Margaret Washington on the change from indentured labor towards enslaved labor
• Margaret Washington on Virginians' concerns about white and black servants
• Margaret Washington on the earliest Africans in Virginia
• Peter Wood on the Africans' arrival in 1619
• Betty Wood on the early status of the Africans in Virginia
• Peter Wood on inheriting the mother's slave status
• Peter Wood on the shift from indentured servitude to lifelong slavery
• Peter Wood on the difference between being a slave and a servant
• Peter Wood on the meaning of indentured sevants
• Peter Wood on the Africans' experience
A. People & Events
V. The Growth of Slavery in North America• The Middle Passage
• John Newton
• Olaudah Equiano
• Nicolas Owen
• Efforts to end the slave trade
• Liverpool and the slave tradeB. Historical Documents
• African Captives Yoked in Pairs
• An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African
• A View of Calabar
• Broadside announcing the sale of slaves
• Living Africans Thrown Overboard
• Alexander Falconbridge's account of the slave trade
• Plan of a ship for transporting slaves
• Frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography
• Equiano's autobiography
• The Slave Trade (Morland)
• The Goree Warehouses, Liverpool
• Slave with Iron Muzzle
• The Slave Trade (Biard)
• Interior of a Slave Ship
• The Slave Chain
• Insurrection on Board a Slave Ship
• The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire"
• Slave Caravans on the Road
• Slave Offered in the Market
• Slaves Left to DieC. Modern Voices
• Catherine Ancholou on the importance of Equiano's narrative
• Catherine Ancholou on how Africans reacted to the possibility of being stolen into slavery
• Catherine Ancholou on Equiano's family's reaction when told about Equiano's story
• Catherine Ancholou on Equiano's people
• Catherine Ancholou on the difference between African slavery and American slavery
• David Blight on the meaning of British participation in the slave trade
• Charles Joyner on the Middle Passage
• Asoka Perbi on the impact of kidnappings on people's lifestyles
• Barry Unsworth on how slave traders kept control of the ship
• Barry Unsworth on what drew Europeans to be slave traders
• Barry Unsworth on how slavers looked upon the Africans
• Barry Unsworth on the slave crew
• Barry Unsworth on the Middle Passage
• Barry Unsworth on the threat of fasting during the Middle Passage
• Margaret Washington on the relationships between Europeans and Africans
A. People and Events
• Arthur Middleton
• New York: The Revolt of 1712
• The Stono Rebellion
• Witchhunt in New York: The 1741 rebellionB. Historical Documents
• William Byrd's diary
• Runaway notices
• Report from William Bull re. Stono Rebellion
• Report re. Stono Rebellion slave-catchers
• A List of White Persons taken into Custody on Account of the 1741 Conspiracy
• A Tobacco Plantation
• A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows
• Harvesting the Rice
• The Hunted Slaves
• Ready for HarvestC. Modern Voices
• Thomas Davis on what is unique about America between 1750 and 1800
• Thomas Davis on the impact of the Stono Rebellion on slaveowners
• Thomas Davis on the empowerment of Africans and the Stono Rebellion
• Thomas Davis on the long-term impact of the Stono Rebellion
• Charles Joyner on the arrival of the Barbadians in South Carolina
• Charles Joyner on the origins of rice culture
• Charles Joyner on preparing the land for rice cultivation
• Charles Joyner on the task system in Carolina
• Charles Joyner on the Stono Rebellion's impact on slavery
• Margaret Washington on Jemmy, the leader of the Stono Rebellion
• Margaret Washington on the idea of freedom for Stono rebels
• Margaret Washington on the impact of the Stono Rebellion
• Margaret Washington on the rise of Africans' concern after the Stono Rebellion
• Betty Wood on Francis Le Jau's attitude towards the institution of slavery
• Betty Wood on Christianity and slavery
• Betty Wood on Le Jau's journals and Christianity
• Betty Wood on Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia
