Codrington was born in Barbados and amassed his fortune from plantation slavery.

English government executes Metacom in 1676, nails body parts to town hall, sells wife, children, followers to plantation slavery.

Wild Seed represents and comments on the history of plantation slavery in the United States.

Phillips argued that large-scale plantation slavery was inefficient and not progressive.

Like the plantation slavery that was a foundation of American society for so long, drug addiction largely involves specifiable groups of people.

Like plantation slavery, drug addiction is passed on from generation to generation.

Recorded instances of Indians selling each other into plantation slavery are rare.

Likewise, the role of British economic history in the abolition of plantation slavery and the slave trade was also underestimated.

As in the towns, plantation slavery was sometimes seen as a means of evangelism.

They strongly opposed the homestead laws that were proposed to give free farms in the west, fearing the small farmers would oppose plantation slavery.