freedmen

Discusses the experiences of former slaves--Exodusters--who stopped in St. Louis, Missouri, while searching for land of their own in the aftermath of the Civil War, and describes how the established African-American community aided migrants with food, shelter, and funds.

Draws on documents assembled by the Freedmen and Southern Society Project to present information about the reshaping of the African-American family during the transition from slavery to freedom.

The year is 1783. Rachel and her family are former slaves. In return for helping the British during the American Revolution, they have been given free passage to Nova Scotia, Canada, where they can start a new life as free people. But Nova Scotian winters are harsh, and money is hard to come by. The family is forced to desperation, living in a shack too small to even stand up in and eating only cornmeal and molasses. How in the world are the three (soon to be four) of them going to survive?.

When Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio, takes in a strange girl named Beloved, she finds that she must face her unthinkable past in order to own her present and future.

Rescued as an infant from the arms of his dying mother, a runaway slave, Moses is taken to Boston and raised with the family of a baker, then joins his uncle in a newly-formed, all-black regiment hoping to serve his country and find out about his mother.

Presents the saga of the African American Merian family set in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. Newly freed Jasper Merian sets out to build a house for himself and his two sons, one a slave and the other free. Jasper and his wife succeed in building the Stonehouses estate which is passed on through three generations of Merians.

In Florida during the First Seminole War, eleven-year-old Tilly and her family, slaves on the Miller Plantation, try to reach St. Augustine in hopes of gaining their freedom.

Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.