It was among the scores of large and profitable slave labor camps -- privately owned and sanctioned by the government -- which had sprung into existance in the southern colonies during the ...

The Southern colonies, which eventually included Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, at times had more enslaved people within their borders than whites. Slaves were an ...

Although Jefferson's description of the slave trade was as much an indictment of the colonies as of Britain ... both northern and southern slaveholding delegates objected to its inclusion, and ...