Presents a history of slavery in America from the early seventeenth century to the end of Reconstruction and describes the horrors of slavery through the stories of those who witnessed it such as Dred Scott and William H. Carney, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at Fort Wagner during the Civil War.
Profiles fourteen American men and women who fought against slavery in the nineteenth century, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elijah Lovejoy, and Lucretia Mott.
Explains the development, practice, and effects of slavery in the Americas including living conditions, religious and cultural traditions, resistance and rebellion, and how the "Black Codes" molded slave life.
A fictionalized account of the life of Minna, kidnapped as a girl in Africa, as she endures the harsh life of a slave on a Southern plantation in the 1800s and tries to help her family survive.
