Enslaved people and slave owners

The Chicago Common Council and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: An slave Name index and images of slave schedules listing slave owners and only age, gender and color data of the slaves in cesus states or territories in 1850 slave Fearing that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system -- which relied on slaves' dependence on masters

slave Ouidah was a strategic point for slave trade in the Gulf of Guinea where men, women and children were sent to Europe, the Caribbean and the Americas to work