Build Background Knowledge: Where Did Slavery Come From?
Crash Course History VIDEO: Slavery
Ducksters: History of Slavery in the United States
Facing History: We and They in Colonial America
The Slave Experience: What was it like to be an African American slave?
Eyewitness to History: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829 Primary Source!
Eyewitness to History: Life on a Southern Plantation, 1854 Primary Source!
Eyewitness to History: Slave Auction, 1859 Primary Source!
Google Arts & Culture: A Slave Pen - visual story
Google Arts & Culture: Slave Resistance Photo Essay Primary Sources!
Khan Academy: The Slave Economy
PBS: Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
What did Abolitionists want and believe?
Facing History: Who is Human? (good for understanding what ideas influenced the abolitionists)
Google Arts & Culture: Abolitionism Photo Essay (excellent overview!)
PBS Africans in America: List of Topics (good to browse!)
The Underground Railroad
PBS: The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
PBS: Dred Scott's Fight for Freedom (1847-1857)
PBS: The Dred Scott Case Supreme Court Decision (1857)
John Brown: Eyewitness to History: John Brown's Raid
Frederick Douglass: Check out his page on the Civil Disobedience site!
Harriet Tubman: Check out her page on the Civil Disobedience site!
More Abolitionists: American Abolitionist Project Biographies
Eyewitness to History: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
Eyewitness to History: Life on a Southern Plantation, 1854
Eyewitness to History: Slave Auction, 1859
Facing History: 'What the Black Man Wants' (Speech excerpt by Frederick Douglass)