The African Prince by Letitia Landon follows the process of how many Africans were taken captive right out of their own country. Letitia Landon portray the Prince as a hunter, a good son, and a perfect heir to the thrown. Out of nowhere it seems that the "pale and terrible" hunt down any and all people they can find and force them onto a ship for a long journey to an island. It is quite ironic that she references the island as "lovely" being that it is the place in which the African people are being sold into slavery. As the poem continues, the prince meets a blue-eyed girl that converts him to Christianity before his death. It is important to note the carefully planned attack the whites illustrated in order to keep the Africans unprepared to fight back. These attacks on the African people would mark the beginning of slavery, thrusting it into what would become one of the most independent parts to American society.

On Being Brought from Africa to America is a poem written my America's first African American female, Phillis Wheatley. In it, she expresses how the color of African Americans' skin is seen as a "diabolic die", thus leading the Christian white folk to believe that all blacks alike are spiritually tainted. She refutes this in expressing how even though they are "black as Cain", they are still humans that can be refined and converted to Christianity just as any other race can be. Though this poem is short, Phillis Wheatley gets right to the point of challenging the white man's Christian perception of the black man. In a country built on religious freedom and immense convictions of right and wrong, it was almost second nature to put the African to work rather than put up with a human being incapable a conversion. This way of thinking would only fuel the fire of slavery that was sweeping the entire nation. Perhaps it was this Christian perception that directly lead to the enslavement of thousands of African Americans.

This work of art was produced in 1854 by Snyder Vaningen. In its title Engraving of African American Sold Into Slavery, one can immediately infer to what this scene might behold. This portrays slaves being lined up for sale, almost in a way that animals might be auctioned off. One can observe the couple in the forefront obviously being separated from one another. It is evident that the white handlers keeping a close eye have no remorse for tearing these innocent families apart. This, however, was very common in the subculture of slavery. African Americans were considered lucky if they were sold as a family to one slave master. This inhumane act shows hows slaves often lost all sense of self, partly in losing their family members, many of whom were never seen or heard from again. Images such as this would be depicted to shed light on the severity of the treatment that these African Americans endured by the so-called Christian whites.