Topic: Slavery
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Slave Burial Ground
In 2001, Monticello’s archaeologists positively identified the site of a burial ground for Monticello’s slaves. It is not known which of Monticello’s slaves were buried here....
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Slave Cabin (artist’s rendition)
Artist's rendition of "Building s", a slave cabin along Monticello's Mulberry Row....
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Slave Market
This view of the slave market in Charleston, South Carolina, was painted by an English naval officer named Henry Byam Martin. The artist clearly believed that Americans were hypocrites. He...
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Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee
This painting depicts slaves being forced to march from Virginia to Tennessee. Congress ended slave importation in 1808, but the sale of slaves continued within the U.S. Many enslaved people...
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Slavery Broadside
Colonial newspapers often featured advertisements announcing the sale of slaves. The Africans in this advertisement were said to be from Sierra Leone. Although most slave traders tended to import many...
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Spanish-American Coin
This silver Spanish-American Real from 1781 was discovered during excavations at Monticello....
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Spinning Jenny
Illustration of a "Spinning Jenny" used for spinning cotton or wool into thread....
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Stowage of the British Slave Ship
This image shows how captured Africans were to be stowed on British slave ships. Published in an abolitionist pamphlet, it was intended to evoke the horrors of the slave trade....
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