Nine facsimile exhibits and six explanatory broadsheets present an overview of slavery in the United States.

Includes 1 introductory sheet, 10 reproductions of contemporary documents, 4 sheets of text, and 6 explanatory broadsheets in portfolio. Bibliography included on introductory sheet.

Exhibits : 1. Newspapers and Slavery - 2 pages October 30, 1736 & January 1, 1831 ; 2. Slave sale poster, 1835 ; 3. Bill of sale for a slave, 1838 ; 4. Ordinance to prohibit slaves from carrying on any mechanic or handicraft trade of themselves, 1796 ; 5. Portion of the Georgia Slave Code, 1848 ; 6. Petition for payment for execution of a slave by burning, 1802 & a transcript ; 7. Petitiion to free a slave, 1820 & a transcript ; 8. Letter from a slave, 1838 & a transcript ; 9. The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 & a transcript. Broadsheets : I. Slavery comes to the Colonies ; II. Slavery in the North ; III. Slavery in the 19th century ; IV Slave's culture ; V. Slave's reaction to slavery ; VI. Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.