- Abolition of Slave-Trade Laws: After eighteen years, Parliament changed the slave-trade laws
- "Accursed Traffic in Human Souls" - Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist's description of American slavery
- Africa: Before European slavers (including audio/video clips)
- American Slavery: Human spirit prevails - ("Slaveholders severely circumscribed the lives of enslaved people, but they never fully defined them.")
- American Slaves: By 1859 - about 4 million people were enslaved
- American Slave Voices: Narratives told by the slaves themselves
- Anti-Slavery Poems: Moving words by British abolitionists
- Anti-Slavery Speech: Wilberforce's famous speech to Parliament
- Auctions of Slaves: Pictures from American archives
- Banneker, Benjamin: "Powers of the mind are disconnected with the colour of the skin..."
- Barracoon: Detention enclosure for kidnapped and captured people
- Bill of Sale: Slaves were considered property, bought and sold with bills of sale - (see example, fourth paragraph)
- Binstead, C. Henry - Diary: First-hand account by British Naval officer finding illegal slaves aboard ships
- Blair, Tony - Apology for Slave Trading: Prime Minister expresses Britain's sorrow for the slave trade
- Branding for Helping Slaves: People who helped escaped slaves could be punished by "branding"
- Captured Slaves: Returned to bondage, even after escaping North
- Chattel Slavery: American form of slavery - (see fourth paragraph)
- Child’s Anti-Slavery Book: Intended to help children see the evils of slavery - (see fifth paragraph, to end, for actual illustrations)
- Child Slaves in America: Education prohibited
- Child Slaves in America: Lack of proper clothing
- Child Slaves in America: Separated from their mothers
- Education, Lack of: First-person examples of keeping slaves uneducated
- Emancipation - Effects: Initial impact of emancipation on slaves
- Escape Efforts: Even on the underground railroad, escaping was very risky
- Escape on the Underground Railroad: How did it work?
- Families Split: Impact on individuals when family members were sold and split-up
- Forced Labor: USSR and the Soviet Bloc impress people to essentially work as slaves
- Franklin, Benjamin - Comment on Slavery: "Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature"
- Fugitive Slave Law - 1793: America had early fugitive slave laws
- Fugitive Slave Law - 1850: An extremely punitive law
- Fugitive Slave Laws: Punitive impact on slaves AND abolitionists
- Illegal Slave-Trading: Stories of slaves after Parliament disallowed slave-trading
- Kidnapping an African Child for Slavery: First-hand description by Olaudah Equiano
- Kidnapped Africans: The journey to slavery
- Life on a Plantation: First-hand description of life as a plantation slave
- Mexico and Anti-slavery Laws: Conflicted with Anglo development in Texas
- "Middle Passage" - Myths: Proponents of slavery and their statements about slaves aboard ship
- "Middle Passage" - Reality: Evidence (with pictures and audio/video) about the transport of kidnapped Africans to the New World
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth: Story of the slave-turned-abolitionist, originally named Isabella Baumfree - (see first bullet)
- Newton, John: British slave trader
- Newton, John: Wrote the song, "Amazing Grace"
- Reading Prohibited for American Slaves: "Would forever unfit him to be a slave"
- Runaways: First-hand description of escape efforts
- Shipboard Life - Description by Slave Trader: John Newton's journal gives glimpse into life of slaves in transit
- Slave Homes: In the American South
- Slaves as Property: Pictures of buying and selling people in the American South
- Slaves at Work: Pictures of slave life in the American South
- Slave Ships: A first-hand description
- Slave-Trade: Its Beginnings
- Soviet Gulag: Slavery in Forced Labor Camps
- Sudan: Historical slave-trading
- "Terrible Time" of Slavery: First-hand description of life as a slave
- Triangle Trade: Three-pronged trade routes (including animated maps)
- Turner, Nat: Leader of a slave uprising
- Underground Railroad - Trips: First-hand descriptions of escaping on the underground railroad
- United States - Transatlantic slave trading disallowed, 1808
- Wallace, William: "Never live within the bond of slavery" - Wallace monument in Scotland
- Wesley, John - Description of Amerian Slavery: "Vilest that ever saw the sun"
- Wheatley, Phyllis: First U.S. African-American poet
- Wilberforce, William: Appeal on Behalf of the Negro Slaves
- Wilberforce, William - Beginnings: Early years not concerned about ending slave trade
- Wilberforce, William: How he became concerned about slaves and the slave trade
- Zong Captives: Intentional killing of slaves to increase amount of insurance recovery