plantation life

Uncle Tom, a slave in the American South, maintains his dignity despite the suffering and eventual death brought upon him by the cruel treatment of a Yankee overseer.

In 1912, in Harris County, Georgia, a White man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, was shot dead on the porch of a Black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctioned the lynching of a Black woman and three Black men; all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this wasn't just a recital of dry history facts, this was her family's history. And as she dug deeper into her research, she discovered that she was not only related to the sheriff, but to one of the four that was murdered.

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.

This volume explores everyday life for slaves in America.

It's 1830, and Jamie Pyke is living comfortably as a Philadelphia aristocrat when an old promise draws him back to the South and back to his muddy past. A child of a plantation master and his kitchen slave, Jamie thought he abandoned his old identity forever, but a quest to save his young friend Pan uncovers Jamie's past, putting both their lives at risk. Jamie, Pan, and Sukey, another escaped slave, must navigate the Underground Railroad and make their leap to lasting freedom.

Elsie, now twenty-one years old, wishes to marry an old friend but her father decrees she must first learn to manage her inheritance, including her mother's Louisiana sugar plantation and its slaves.

"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she grows older, Mattie becomes more like family to Lisbeth than her own kin, and the girl's visits to the slaves' quarters--and their lively and loving community she finds there --bring the two closer together than ever. But can two women in such disparate circumstances form a bond like theirs without consequence? This deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity" -- Page 4 of cover.

After the death of her father in 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia goes to live with her wealthy and mysterious godfather at his Gothic mansion, Wyndriven Abbey, in Mississippi, where many secrets lie hidden.