An eyewitness history of slavery in America: from Colonial times to the Civil War

West Coast of Africa: 1441-1866

Middle Passage: 1500-1866

Americans in the slave trade: 1526-1865

Slave life: 1619-1865

Slave work: 1619-1865

Runaways: 1619-1865

Canada, other refuges, and the colonization/emigration movement: 1501-1865

Rebels: 1526-1865

Indians as slaves, as friends and enemies of Black slaves, and as slaveholders: 1529-1865

Argument over slavery: 1637-1865

Black soldiers in America's wars: 1635-1865

End of slavery: 1861-1865.