Slavery

Slavery and the Civil War

The Abolitionists movie from PBS

Emancipation Proclamation

Slave narratives

What was it like to be a slave?  These real life accounts of former slaves can give you an insight as to what their life was like.

Read Uncle Tom's Cabin--online

Read the novel that laid the groundwork for the Civil War.  It is a tale professing anti-slavery around the character Uncle Tom, an old, sick slave.  It fueled the abolitionists as it depicted some of the realities of slavery that had been held from the public.

Images of slavery