plantation life

Contains a short survey of the life, work, and sorrows of slaves in America including the slave trade, their work in the fields and in the "big house, " and the cruelty by their owners.

The author, a descendant of Charleston plantation owner Elias Ball, tells about his experiences attempting to trace the history of his family and the genealogies of the slave families once owned by the Balls.

Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd, and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

China Redd, an African-American woman who worked at the Roseberry plantation for forty-seven years, sets the record straight about what really went on between the white families and their slaves and servants throughout the hundred-year history of the house.

Study and recreation of one of the last slave conspiracies in the United States before the Civil War.

On a Louisiana sugar plantation, a young slave girl struggles with the magical powers that have been passed down from her grandmother and mother to her, unsure of the responsibilities and consequences that accompany this power.

Solomon Northup tells about being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South after having been a free citizen in New York during the mid-1800s.

Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.

Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass, from slave to statesman.

Presents the controversial novel, published in 1852, in which author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty, suffering, and death.