18th century

Text and illustrations describe the samplers, paintings, quilts, needlepictures, and other handiwork of 18th and 19th-century American women.

Contains the text of the pamphlet by Thomas Paine.

Examines the late eighteenth-century ruling by Lord Mansfield in London that set the precedent for abolishing slavery in both England and America and examines the legal and social effects among those who supported the institution.

Chronicles the first grassroots human rights campaign, discussing how, in the late eighteenth century, twelve men banded together to try and stop slavery in the sugar industry, and as a result freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.

Tells the story of frontiersman Daniel Boone's capture in 1778 by Shawnee warriors who adopted him into the tribe where he remained until, fearing for the safety of his family and friends, he staged a daring escape.

Presents a biography of the the eighteenth century woman who arrived in America as a slave and became an internationally famous poet and the first African-American to publish a book.

In 1800, thirteen-year-old Hannah Cooper works as a servant for Abigail Adams. Hannah corresponds with her printer brother, Daniel, about President Adams's run for re-election against Thomas Jefferson, the newly constructed White House, and life in the President's household.

A graphic novel account of women who were accused of witchcraft in the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.