Some Exhibits to Come – Three Centuries Of Enslavement

Here from the Start: How Africans Helped Europeans Settle the New World

1. William Tucker, the first African American

At Auction

1. Way Down Upon the Swanee River: Plantation Life
2. In the Fields
3. In the Big House
4. In the Quarters
5. Rent-A-Slaves
6. Skilled Tradesmen

They Too Had Slaves?

1. Northerners as Slaveholders
2. Working-class White Slaveholders
3. Black Slaveholders
4. Native American Slaveholders

Written by Themselves: Slave Narratives

The Fugitive Slave Laws

The Lives of Free Blacks in America

Great Escapes and Resistance Movements

1. The Underground Railroad
2. Rescued in Wisconsin: The Joshua Glover Story
3. Slave Uprisings in the U.S.A.
4. The Abolitionists

Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary War