http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life View pictures of North American slave life during the 18th and 19th centuries, featuring pictures of slaves themselves and the environments in which they worked and lived. en Copyright 2013, History.com Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT History.com 2013-05-21T04:00:00Z en Copyright 2013, History.com http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo1 Built in the 1830s, Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana was home to over one hundred house and field slaves (photographed 2001). http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo1 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo2 This tin-sided building housed slaves who worked at Laura Plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana (photographed 1998). http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo2 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo3 This replica of the interior of a slave cabin displays the squalid living conditions of these forced laborers (Baton Rouge, c. 1999). http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo3 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo4 A group of slaves gathered outside their quarters on a plantation on Cockspur Island, Georgia in the mid-19th century. http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo4 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo5 A harvest-stage cotton field in Tennessee, 1999. http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo5 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo6 A slave family standing next to baskets of recently-picked cotton near Savannah, Georgia in the 1860s. http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo6 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo7 This undated newspaper advertisement offers a family of slaves for sale, highlighting their various skills. Slave families were not always sold together. http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo7 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo8 Wilson Chinn, a freed slave from Louisiana, poses with equipment used to punish slaves. Such images fueled Northern resolve against slaveholders during the American Civil War (photographed in 1863). http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo8 http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo9 Copper slave tags identified a slave by number when they were hired out in South Carolina. http://www.history.com/photos/slavery-slave-life/photo9