What do Americans really know about slavery in America?

Did You Know? One of the first martyrs to the cause of American patriotism was Crispus Attucks, a former slave who was killed by British soldiers during the Boston Massacre of 1770. Some 5,000 black soldiers and sailors fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War. read more

Americans learn most of what they know about slavery in childhood education; few people except scholars search out more knowledge after that. As a result, their knowledge is limited to the things that you can talk about in school. Very few know anything about slaves' sex lives -- whether consenting, forced, or absent. read more

Brutal black-on-black slavery was common in Africa for thousands of years. True, in the sense that the phenomenon of human beings enslaving other human beings goes back thousands of years, but not just among blacks, and not just in Africa. Most slaves brought to America from Africa were purchased from black slave owners. read more