slaves

In 1960, bored and lonely thirteen-year-old Sophie is not happy about spending the summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou until she finds a maze with a secretive and mischievous inhabitant. She then makes a wish and finds herself in 1860 at her family's home, where she is mistaken for a slave.

A brief biography of slave Harriet Tubman, who gained her own freedom and then helped other slaves get to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass tells the story of his life and his journey from slavery to freedom.

Contains two autobiographies of Frederick Douglass, a slave who escaped to the free North in 1838 and became a respected writer, speaker, and active abolitionist.

The author describes her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her eventual escape, and emancipation, including descriptions of the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space above her grandmother's attic.

As a young woman named Lilith, born into slavery, comes of age on the Jamaican sugar plantation where she works, she and the other slave women realize that she has a dark and dangerous power within her. The Night Women, as they like to be known, inform Lilith of a slave revolt they have been planning, believing her to be the key to their success. As Lilith begins to question her own desires and destiny, however, she may end up becoming the revolt's weak link.

An autobiography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass which describes his childhood born into slavery and his education by his master's wife. Also discusses his escape to the North, his rise as a speaker against slaver, and his work in the 1840's against segregation.

When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.

Based on a series of interviews, the author relates the slave narrative of Cudjo Lewis.

Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.