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the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was...

United States Slave insurance in the United States Slave narrative § North American slave narratives WPA Slave Narratives Project Slavery and Slaving...

Slave markets and slave jails in the United States were places used for the slave trade in the United States from the founding in 1776 until the total...

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...

Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships...

The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage and the interregional slave trade, was...

United States Constitution formally abolished slavery in 1865, immediately after the end of the American Civil War. Twelve U.S. presidents owned slaves at...

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 state into...

prohibiting the transatlantic importation of slaves went into effect. The Mississippi Territory of the United States was organized in 1798. The organizing act...

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

This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and...

In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th centuries to describe people who fled slavery. The term also...

The Fugitive Slave Clause in the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause, is Article IV, Section...

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...

various states of the United States allowed the enslavement of human beings, most of whom had been transported from Africa during the Atlantic slave trade...

required those living in the Northern United States to assist slave catchers. Slave catchers in the United States ceased to be active with the ratification...

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

Slave marriages in the United States were typically illegal before the American Civil War abolished slavery in the US. Enslaved African Americans were...

newspapers mention escaped slaves as late as 1750. In 1790, the United States census report indicated that the number of slaves in the state was 6,001, with an...

African American slave owners within the history of the United States existed in some cities and others as plantation owners in the country. During this...