1. Read: Review of a First Rate Cotton Plantation (1845), Frederick Law Olmstead - Document Overview
2. Read: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Read: Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery (1852)
4. Read: Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison (1833)

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1. View: Slave quarters, a South Carolina plantation
2. View: The Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia
3. View: Photograph of front of the Stirrup Branch plantation, Bishopville, South Carolina, June 1857
4. View: Rear of the Stirrup Branch plantation
5. View: The offices of Price, Birch & Co., slave dealers, Alexandria, Virginia
6. View: Louisville, 1846
7. View: Anti-slavery advertisement
8. View: Suffering in the South
9. View: Frederick Douglass listened to William Lloyd Garrison denounce slavery
10. View: Frederick Douglass at an antislavery convention
11. View: Frederick Douglass edited the first Negro paper, "The North Star"
12. View: Frederick Douglass argues against John Brown's plan to attack the arsenal at Harpers Ferry
13. View: Frederick Douglass argues against poor Negroes leaving the South
14. View: The Masthead from The Liberator

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1. View: Cotton Production, 1821
2. View: Population Growth and Cotton Production, 1821–1859
3. View: Slave Population, 1820
4. View: Slave Population, 1860

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