enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved...

The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical...

to have owned slaves at some point in his life. Of these presidents who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson owned the most, with 600+ slaves, followed closely...

about one-fifth of the population consisted of slaves. The city was a major centre of the slave trade in the 15th and later centuries. Slaves were provided...

brought the first slaves to Louisiana. La Amistad, general-purpose cargo ship that also carried slaves on occasion. A successful slave revolt on the ship...

source of white slaves to the Islamic Middle East, and these slaves were referred to as "Circassians". In the context of the Circassian slave trade, the...

difficult to verify due to lack of birth documentation for most enslaved individuals. List of slaves Peter Fossett – American slave, minister, caterer, conductor...

lifted by Congress in 20 years, and slaves were referred to as "Persons." The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves passed easily in 1807 and took effect...

deaths of slaves on board slave ships. Firsthand accounts from former slaves, such as Olaudah Equiano, describe the horrific conditions that slaves were...

the slave trade in 1807 a system of clandestine slave trade developed to bring slaves to French planters on the islands; in all 336,000–388,000 slaves were...

with African slaves and their future offspring being legally the property of their owners, as children born to slave mothers were also slaves (partus sequitur...

between slaves and craftsmen. The ancient Greeks had several words to indicate slaves, which leads to textual ambiguity when they are studied out of their...

state of semi-permanent warfare until the 18th century. It is estimated that up to 75% of the Crimean population consisted of slaves or freed slaves. The...

August 2018. Natalie Zemon Davis, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (2002) ch 2 Natalie Zemon Davis, Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision...

the importation of slaves to the Mississippi Territory from "foreign parts" (foreign nations). The penalty for illegally importing slaves from abroad to...

as-Saqaliba ("land of the slaves"). Bohemia were in an ideal position to become a supply source for Pagan saqaliba slaves to al-Andalus. The slaves were acquired...

Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1989) that 60–70% of inter-regional migrations were the result of the sale of slaves. In 1820, a slave child in the...

pragmatic interests of the owner. The prospect of manumission worked as an incentive for slaves to be industrious and compliant. Roman slaves were paid a wage...

used to detain recaptured slaves, directing county prosecutors to defend recaptured slaves, and entitling recaptured slaves to habeas corpus and trial...

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...

between white European and black African slaves, in some Muslim societies they were employed in different roles. Slaves in Islam were mostly assigned to the...

Atlantic, landing nearly 400,000 slaves. Between 1801 and 1807, they took a further 266,000. The slave trade remained one of Britain's most profitable businesses...

their stations and were fed poorly. Slaves who mistimed their strokes were caned by overseers. Most of the slaves were Tagalogs, Visayans, and "Malays"...

cases of African slaves freed by setting foot on French soil were recorded such as the example of a Norman slave merchant who tried to sell slaves in Bordeaux...

The Trans-Saharan slave trade, part of the Arab slave trade, was a slave trade in which slaves were mainly transported across the Sahara. Most were moved...

exchange for slaves. Then crews transported the slaves, and remaining European manufactured goods, to the Americas where ship merchants sold the slaves and European...

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

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...

estimated to have been slaves. Female slaves were generally more prioritized in the slave market in the Islamic world. The Zanzibar slave trade focused on children...

These slaves were called seikō (生口 "living mouth"). In the 8th century, slaves were called Nuhi (奴婢) and laws were issued under the legal codes of the Nara...