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

Torture of slaves in the United States was fairly common, as part of what many slavers claimed was necessary discipline. As one history put it, "Stinted...

Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth...

officials who owned slaves Slavery in the District of Columbia Treatment of slaves in the United States Polk Taylor, reportedly owned by Zachary Taylor's daughter...

opponents as a slave trader who transacted in slaves in defiance of modern standards or morality. The treatment of slaves in the United States varied widely...

hands were slaves who labored on plantations. They were commonly used to plant, tend, and harvest cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco. Field slaves usually...

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...

Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery...

slaves, and giving slaves limited property rights incentivized slaves to work harder to get more property. In the southern United States prior to the...

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...