Slavery Almanac | Slavery Through the Ages (An Introduction)

• Many times, many peoples
• The ancient world (5000 B.C.E.-500 CE.)
• Western Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1500)
• The New World (1500-1900)
• The twentieth century (1900-1999)
• A Chronology of Abolition

Many times, many peoples

When we think of slavery, most Americans picture the American South in the 1800s, before the Civil War. Our mental image probably includes hundreds of black slaves on a plantation, picking cotton in the hot sun under the watchful eyes of their white masters. This vision is slavery in its simplest form: one...