emancipation

This story imagines what it was like when Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass got together for a cup of tea and discussed their struggle for civil rights.

Describes the causes of and effects of the Emancipation Proclamation on United States history.

The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War have brought an official end to slavery, yet some southern slave owners are refusing to comply. The road to freedom is still long and hard for many African-Americans, but you're not giving up. Will you: overcome obstacles as you make your way north from Texas? Seek out your family, from whom you were separated during a slave auction? Or fight back when you take work as an apprentice but find that you're still treated as a slave?.

Freed from slavery, Mariah and her young brother Zeke join Sherman's march through Georgia, where Mariah meets a free black named Caleb and dares to imagine the possibility of true love, but hope can come at a cost.

Little Mazie wants the freedom to stay up late, but her father explains what freedom really means in the story of Juneteenth, and how her ancestors celebrated their true freedom.

Explores the origins of and traditions associated with the holiday of Juneteenth, the day of June 19 when slaves in Texas were told they were free after the end of the Civil War.

A brief retelling of how Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves.

" ... Ranging from the stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to debates in the halls of Congress, 'Troubled Refuge' probes the particular and deeply significant reality of the contraband camps: what they were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there, forging a dramatically new but highly imperfect alliance between the government and African Americans"--Amazon.com.