plantation life

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

Explores the history of slavery in the United States, from the first slaves brought to Jamestown in 1619 to the ending of slavery in the Civil War and beyond to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Presents a concise history of slavery in the Americas with the arrival of the first Africans in the early 1600s, and describes the rise of the plantation South, the revival of slavery with the cotton gin, slave rebellions and the Underground Railroad, and the end of slavery in 1865.

In 1870, Reconstruction brings big changes to the Louisiana sugar plantation where spunky ten-year-old Sugar has always lived, including her friendship with Billy, the son of her former master, and the arrival of workmen from China.

Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

Describes how slaves were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the often brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.

The story of American slavery and an African-American man who never lost dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.

Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.

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.

Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.