In the wake of abolition, from the Caribbean to southern Africa to Southeast Asia, a fusion of government authority and private industry replaced the iron chains of slavery with equally powerful ...

While the problem can often seem insurmountable, Kristine says that the communities do become liberated when advocacy groups put attention and pressure on the slave holders.

Enslaved men endured many forms of abuse at the hands of their masters and overseers, including whippings and beatings. Women slaves, too, felt the pain of the lash, as well as other forms of ...

They raise disturbances with their overseers and fellow-servants without ... They ignorantly attribute the symptoms to the debasing influence of slavery on the mind without considering that ...

Two smaller scenes flank Lincoln's portrait. In one a mounted overseer flogs a black field slave (left), in the other a foreman politely greets Negro cotton-field workers. (Photo by: Universal ...

of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer as the source for this wrenching silent work. Through digital manipulation, Jacobs creates a haunting illusion of depth and ...