plantation life

Nineteenth-century African-American statesman Frederick Douglass tells his life story, describing his years as a slave, his escape, his role in the abolitionist movement, and his experiences in politics and diplomacy.

Presents an historical fiction based upon the true story of Carrie McGavock, who spent the years following the Civil War caring for the graves of over fifteen hundred soldiers from the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, who were buried on designated ground in her back yard.

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 edition of the nineteenth-century novel about Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the inhumane circumstances of slavery; and includes backgrounds and contexts, and a selection of critical essays.

A fictionalized account of the relationship between George Washington, the first president of the United States, and his wife Martha.

Recreates a southern plantation of 1853 and describes the daily lives of its owners and of the slaves who worked there.

A collection of true stories that chronicle the experiences of African slaves on Carolina plantations.

Presents a narrative that recreates the events during the War of 1812 that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war.

Presents the diary of Priscilla Bond, a young woman who left the genteel Protestant seaboard culture of Chesapeake Bay and moved to a frontier plantation in south Louisiana with her husband in 1865, and witnessed the brutality of the Civil War.