Disc 1. Understanding the fight against slavery -- Origins of slavery in the British Empire -- Opposing the African slave trade -- Shipboard rebellion and resistance -- A free black family in colonial Virginia. Disc 2. Quakers and Puritans join the fight -- Thomas Thistlewood's plantation revolution -- Phibbah Thistlewood: sleeping with the enemy -- Slave insurrections in the 18th century -- Maroons: those who escaped. Disc 3. Three Quaker activists -- Slavery in the War for Independence -- Taking slavery to court -- Charles Pinckney's counterrevolution -- The Haitian revolution. Disc 4. Founding the free black churches -- The second middle passage -- "Our native country": opposing colonization -- David Walker, Nat Turner, and black immediatism -- William Lloyd Garrison's "Thousand witnesses". Disc 5. Surviving King Cotton -- Roger Taney: nationalizing slavery -- Frederick Douglass and aggressive abolition -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman -- The black heart of John Brown. Disc 6. The slaves' experience of the Civil War -- US colored troops: those who served -- Fighting slavery after emancipation -- Slavery by another name -- Fighting modern slavery.