It was among the scores of large and profitable slave labor camps -- privately owned and sanctioned by the government -- which had sprung into existance in the southern colonies during the ...

This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British ... this book examines their initial opposition to ...

Although Jefferson's description of the slave trade was as much an indictment of the colonies as of Britain ... both northern and southern slaveholding delegates objected to its inclusion, and ...

Martinique and the Southern United States after the different abolitions of slavery, between 1833 and 1838 for the British colonies, in 1848 for the French colonies, then in 1865 for the United States ...