to 1863

Describes the anti-slavery movement in the United States from 1830 to 1865. Examines how the Underground Railroad was used to help slaves escape to the North and how the issue of slavery led to the Civil War. Discusses the roles of movement leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Slavery has plagued human history for thousands of years. During the colonization of the Americas, more than 12 million Africans were stolen from their homelands and forced to work in plantation colonies. What was it like to be enslaved? How did people endure such hardships? How did the enslaved fight for freedom?.

Discusses the struggles and achievements of African-Americans as they struggled to construct a strong economic base--by establishing banks and businesses and working toward ownership of land--after the abolition of slavery, and examines the racial violence and other challenges they endured while instituting their own schools and getting established in the political processes of the United States.

A history of African-Americans and their distinct culture in colonial North America, from their seventeenth-century introduction to the continent via the slave trade to their role in the Revolutionary War.