plantation life

A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.

Moinette, a mixed-race child born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, gains an education by listening to the lessons given her young mistress, and when she is sold and separated from her beloved mother at the age of fourteen, she immediately begins to make plans to gain her freedom.

Dramatizes the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from Saratoga, New York, who was kidnapped in 1841 and taken to Louisiana where he spent twelve years as a slave.

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.

Brief, simple text and detailed drawings recreate the world of the Shaw family, who lived in Virginia on a colonial plantation near the Chesapeake Bay for over 150 years, beginning in 1630.

A professor of history retells the amazing story of Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley, an African-born woman who married her owner and later gained control of his East Florida plantation.