to 1863

The true story of Africans and African Americans in the United States, from their arrival up until 1850.

Photographs and illustrations describe the history of slavery in America, how slaves were bought and sold, how they were treated, and those who fought for the abolition of slavery.

Explores the history of slavery in North America. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

In 1619, Dutch traders sold twenty Africans to English settlers for the purposes of slave labor. By the late seventeenth century, enslaved Africans would become the primary source of labor in America, especially in the South. While the North relied more on technology after the Industrial Revolution, the Southern economy was based on agriculture. Despite the aversion of many Northerners to slavery after the American Revolution, the demand for cotton and tobacco in the North kept slavery, on which the antebellum Southern economy was based, alive. In this book, students will read accounts about the lives of those enslaved laborers. Through primary sources, students will also learn about the laws designed to protect the institution of slavery and how the institution was dismantled.

Presents four classic narratives illustrating the black experience in slavery.

Describes slavery in the United States, how individuals worked to end slavery, introducing such famous abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and Frederick Douglass, and the Civil War and its roll in the emancipation of slaves.

An introduction to abolitionism in the United States during the 19th century.

Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans?both slave and free?from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or Lincoln?s emergence as the great emancipator, Escott concentrates on the black military and civilian experience in the North as well as the South.

Chronicles the experiences of the first Africans in the New World and the roles they played in the new societies.