Glossary of American slavery

This is a glossary of American slavery, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of slavery in the United States

Broadside advertising bucks, wenches and a "picaninny" in Kentucky, 1855
Broadside advertising "acclimated" slaves separately from other people for sale, in New Orleans in 1858
A form of torture called cat-hauling, excerpt from woodcut in 1840 Anti-Slavery Almanac