American Slavery: Primary Sources

This is a primary source booklet which accompanies a series of 11 lessons on slavery in the United States. There are ten edited primary sources which are between 1-2 pages each. Each source looks at a different aspect of the slave trade:

• Africa before European contact
• Capture into slavery
• The Middle Passage
• Slave auctions
• White defences of slavery
• Life on a southern plantation
• The experience of female slaves
• Slave resistance
• Slave escapes
• The abolition of slavery in the USA