C‑SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C‑SPAN networks ... where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass.

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote his only book, Notes on the State ... abolitionists had been demanding that the United States put an end to its international slave trade. The Pennsylvania ...

click image for close-up Painted in 1840 during a time when slavery was still legal in French colonies, The Slave Trade by Auguste-Francois Biard is a strong statement against the institution.