Slavery in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel
- Mesopotamia (c. 3500-539 B.C.E.)
- Fact Focus
- Sumer (c. 3500-2000 B.C.E.)
- Permanent vs. temporary slavery
- Babylonia (c. 2000-539 B.C.E.)
- The Code of Hammurabi and slavery
- Assyrian domination (c. 1100-612 B.C.E.)
- The New Babylonian Empire (c 612-539 B.C.E.)
- Egypt (c. 3110-332 B.C.E.)
- Israel (c. 1850-539 B.C.E.)
- The First Abolitionists
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- Slavery Through the Ages (An Introduction)
- Slavery in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel
- Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Western Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1500)
- Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Colonial Latin America
- Colonial America
- Slave Life in Antebellum America
- Free Blacks in Antebellum America
- The Abolition Movement
- Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
- Slavery in the Twentieth Century