Traces the history of slavery in America, compares it with slavery in other countries, and discusses the relationships between slaves and their masters.

RG 48 houses the records of the Arlington Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for the years when William Cassell Butler was the branch's president, 1965-1972 and 1976-1988. The collection contains the branch's minutes, membership lists, newsletters, activities files, and correspondence. Of special interest are the correspondence and speech files of the president. These contain letters of advocacy for individuals...

African Americans, more than any other populations in the Americas, have been shaped by migrations. Their culture and history are the products of black peoples' various movements, coerced and voluntary, that started, in the Western Hemisphere, five hundred years ago. Theirs is the story of men and women forced out of Africa; of enslaved people moved from the coastal southeast to the Deep South; of fugitives walking to freedom across the country and...