Portal:Slavery

Index of works about slavery, from ancient to modern times.

The Official Medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society, showing a black man in chains and the caption "Am I Not a Man and a Brother"
Slavery

Source documents on slavery

Ancient works

Transatlantic slavery

Legislation, petitions etc.

Abolitionist works

See Portal:Abolitionism

Apologies of Slavery

  • Of the Power of Masters[1], chapter 22 of The Elements of Law, 1640 by Thomas Hobbes
  • Bondage a Moral Institution, Sanctioned by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments[1]
  • A Defence of Southern Slavery[2], Author:Iveson L. Brookes
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin in Ruins! Triumphant Defence of Slavery![3], Author:Nicholas Brimblecomb
  • A Defence of Negro Slavery, as it Exists in the United States[4] Author:Matthew Estes
  • Slavery Not Forbidden by Scripture[5], Author:Richard Nisbet
  • Slavery Consistent with Christianity[6] 1840 by Author:Leander Ker
  • Bible Defence of Slavery [7], Author:Josiah Priest (1843)
  • Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution[8] 1845 Author:Francis Wayland and Author:Richard Fuller
  • The Duties of Masters and Slaves Respectively[9] 1845 Author:William Thomas Hamilton
  • The Pro-Slavery Argument[10] 1853
  • Negro Slavery: No Evil[11] 1854 Author:Benjamin F. Stringfellow
  • Slavery Indispensable to the Civilization of Africa[12] 1855 Author:Samuel McKenney
  • Slaveholding not Sinful[13] 1856 Author:Samuel Blanchard How
  • A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States[14] 1856
  • Slavery: The Argument from the Scriptures[15] 1856 Author:Albert Taylor Bledsoe
  • Scriptural and Statistical Views in Favor of Slavery[16] 1856 Author:Thornton Stringfellow
  • The Christian Doctrine of Slavery[17] 1857 Author:George Dodd Armstrong
  • The Right of American Slavery[18] 1860 Author:True Worthy Hoit
  • Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?[19], 1860
  • Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery[20] 1861 Author:William Henry Holcombe
  • A History and Defense of African Slavery[21] 1861 Author:William B. Trotter
  • Negroes and Negro Slavery: The First and Inferior Race; the Latter its Normal Condition[22] 1861 Author:John H. Van Evrie
  • Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible[23], 1861Author:John Richter Jones
  • The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder[24] 1860 Author:James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow
  • A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical and Historical View of Slavery from the Days of the Patriarch Abraham to the Nineteenth Century[25] 1864 Author:John Henry Hopkins and Author:Alonzo Potter
  • White Supremacy and Negro Subordination[26] 1868 Author:John H. Van Evrie

Modern works

Slave sale posters


Fictional accounts of slavery

See also

Reference

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 from "additional readings" bibliographical list of chapter 87: Slavery. Hutchins, Robert Maynard, ed. Great Books of the Western World, vol. 3, The Great Ideas, Adler, Mortimer Jerome, ed. (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952) p. 790