Understanding Slavery Initiative
Understanding Slavery Initiative: Sound Files About Slavery
Sound bites from historical slaveowner Thomas Thistlewood and former slave Olaudah Equiano regarding trade and commerce, plantation life, the riches of Africa, and resistance and rebellion. Also featured, a rap by Soweto Kinch, entitled...
Digital History
Digital History: Slave Stories
Audio of slave stories along with an explanation of the disturbing history of forced labor and development of slavery in the U.S. raising issues about 21st Century human trafficking.
A&E Television
History.com: Slavery in America
Video looks at the history of slavery in America including how it started, the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on slavery, abolition, the slavery debate as the nation expanded westward, the Civil War, and the aftermath of...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Inhuman Bondage: Slavery in the New World
[Free Registration/Login Required] Yale University's David Brion Davis presents a lecture focused on how slavery came to be in the early development of the New World and goes on to cover how it falls apart. [49:48]
PBS
Pbs: Victoria, Season 1: Queen Victoria and the Anti Slavery Movement in England
Learn about the role of the English anti-slavery movement in helping abolish slavery around the world, in this scene [1:59] from the 2017 drama series Masterpiece: Victoria. When English abolitionists ask Queen Victoria for help with...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Slavery
John Green teaches you about America's "peculiar institution," slavery. John will talk about what life was like for a slave in the 19th century United States, and how slaves resisted oppression, to the degree that was possible. We'll...
Crash Course
Crash Course Us History #13: Slavery
In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about America's "peculiar institution," slavery. I wouldn't really call it peculiar. I'd lean more toward horrifying and depressing institution, but nobody asked me. John will talk about...
Other
Reading Through History: A Day in the Life of a Slave
What was a day like for a slave living in the pre Civil War era? This video lesson attempts to answer the questions: How many Southerners owned slaves? How were the slaves treated? What types of punishments were common? How did...
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Connecting Maryland's Past to Louisiana
"Connecting Maryland's Past to Louisiana's Present: The Georgetown 272" is an oral history project conducted by the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at Louisiana State University. Working with Professor Jonathan Earle and...
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive a Conversation With Earlene Campbell
Yolonda "Coffeedreamz" Body interviews her cousin Earlene Campbell-Coleman for her Good News Feed broadcast on YouTube, July 9, 2020. Earlene Campbell-Coleman is a GU272 slave descendant. [27:02]
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Video: The Best Place to Start
This short film examines the effort by Georgetown students to secure passage of a student government referendum committing each undergraduate student to a new fee of $27.20. The fees would fund reparative justice initiatives in...
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Video: The Good Work
Georgetown Film Studies students explore the parallels between a Jesuit's unanswered plea and a University's reconnection with the descendants of slaves it owned, sold, and spurned. [13:37]
Georgetown University
Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Video: Naming Reconciliation
Georgetown Film Studies students investigate the life and character of Br. Joseph Mobberly, S.J., a major individual in Georgetown's history of slavery and its sale of 272 slaves to Louisiana. The film uses the presence of Mobberly's...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: Regional Attitudes About Slavery
How and why did the Northern and Southern parts of the United States begin to develop distinctive regional attitudes about the institution of slavery? In this video, Kim discusses how the economic systems and ideas of each region evolved...