The iron bit, also referred to as a gag, was used by enslavers and overseers as a form of punishment on slaves in the Southern United States. The bit, sometimes...

Representation of slavery in European art Slave iron bit This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Slave collar. If an internal link led...

equine behavior. Bit guard Bit mouthpiece Bit ring Bit shank Bitless bridle Bridle Hackamore Horse tongue Rein Slave iron bit "Types of Bits". Thoroughbred...

is a Brazilian folk saint said to have died from wearing a punitive slave iron bit. Scotland In 1567, Bessie Tailiefeir (pronounced Telfer) allegedly slandered...

to their labour. Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in...

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

Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting slaves. Such ships were also known...

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...

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...

sources as owning slaves. Strabo records slaves as an export commodity from Britannia, From Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey, an iron gang chain dated to...

White slavery (also white slave trade or white slave trafficking) refers to the enslavement of any of the world's European ethnic groups throughout human...

A galley slave was a slave rowing in a galley, either a convicted criminal sentenced to work at the oar (French: galérien), or a kind of human chattel...

A slave catcher is a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. The first slave catchers in the Americas were active in...

The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas...

gave slave states disproportionate political power, while the Fugitive Slave Clause (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3) provided that, if a slave escaped...

Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves by their owners. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the...

low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with few opportunities for advancement and little chance of freedom. Skilled and educated slaves—including...

A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The status of slave (þræll, þēow) contrasts with that of the freeman (karl, ceorl)...

The Black Sea slave trade trafficked people across the Black Sea from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to slavery in the Mediterranean and the Middle East...

enslaved hundreds to operate his Tredegar Iron Works. John Armfield (1797–1871), Virginia co-founder of "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States...

In 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...

A slave market is a place where slaves are bought and sold. These markets are a key phenomenon in the history of slavery. Since antiquity, cities along...

The Slave Power, or Slavocracy, referred to the perceived political power held by American slaveholders in the federal government of the United States...

The Balkan slave trade was the trade in slaves from the Balkans via Venetian slave traders across the Adriatic and Aegean Seas to Italy, Spain, and the...

A slave name is the personal name given by others to an enslaved person, or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. In Rome, slaves were given a single...

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...

medieval world. When the trans-Saharan slave trade, Red Sea slave trade, Indian Ocean slave trade, and Atlantic slave trade (which started in the 16th century)...

slave trade was most active in West Asia, North Africa (Trans-Saharan slave trade), and Southeast Africa (Red Sea slave trade and Indian Ocean slave trade)...

Slave raiding is a military raid for the purpose of capturing people and bringing them from the raid area to serve as slaves. Once seen as a normal part...

and enforced discipline upon slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. The slave patrols' function was to police slaves, especially those who escaped...