freedmen

While traveling with her master, Ginnie, a slave from Virginia, daringly walks away from slavery into freedom with two of her children. She begins a new life in Philadelphia as Mercer Gray, and there she becomes a fierce abolitionist, determined to rescue the baby son she had to leave behind.

Uses letters, diary entries, and other primary sources to describe the daily lives, thoughts, and emotions of slaves during the Civil War.

Presents a narrative history of the Civil War from the interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs of former slaves.

Chronicles African-American history from Reconstruction through the great migration of the early twentieth century, with many historical photos and illustrations and several removable documents and other three-dimensional features.

An illustrated biography of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States marshal, based on his ability to communicate with the Native Americans in the area that was to become Oklahoma.

Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.

Explains how the nearly four million slaves and nearly half a million free blacks gained freedom and basic rights as citizens, following Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Recounts the experiences of the slaves who answered Lord Dunmore's 1775 promise that any slave who left his master and fought for the British would have their freedom.

Historical photographs and text help chronicle the experiences of African-Americans during the Reconstruction era, discussing how they adapted to life after being freed from slavery and tried to build new lives for themselves.

An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.