For weeks, months, sometimes as long as a year, they waited in the dungeons of the slave factories scattered along Africa's western coast. They had already made the long, difficult journey from ...

Number two, Blacks were sold into slavery by other Blacks ... but all cultures are not created equal, they're not. And 1600s African tribal culture is not on the same moral footing as to where ...

Narrated by Academy Award-nominee Angela Bassett (Waiting to Exhale), it offers unparalleled understanding -- from slavery's birth in the early 1600s through the violent onset of civil war in 1860.

What is chattel slavery? Between the 1600s and 1900s, 12.5 million enslaved Africans were brought from Central and West Africa to the Americas to work under a system referred to as chattel slavery.

Whitfield was a defender of slavery on the grounds that Biblical figures had owned slaves. (Source: Lebrecht Music and Arts/Alamy.) Based upon different interpretations of the Bible and their own ...