Berlin, Ira

Draws on documents assembled by the Freedmen and Southern Society Project to present information about the reshaping of the African-American family during the transition from slavery to freedom.

Presents a comprehensive history of slavery in New York prior to and during the American Revolution, and examines their relationship to the city's economic and social growth.

Presents a comprehensive history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its end almost three hundred years later during the Civil War.

Traces the history of slavery in the United States from the early 1600s to its demise in the wake of the Civil War, focusing on the struggle between slaves and slaveholders that defined the nature of the institution for nearly three centuries.

Presents transcriptions of interviews conducted in the 1930s and 1940s with former slaves in which they discuss the details of their everyday lives as slaves and after emancipation.

Discusses how slavery evolved and developed in America from the early seventeenth century through the eignteenth century.

A four-hundred-year history of the African-American experience traces four pivotal migrations, including the violent relocation of one million slaves to the antebellum South and the movement of millions to industrial cities a century later.

History of slavery, freedom, and the Civil War through the use of letters, personal testimony, and official transcripts.