slavery

In the years before the Civil War, Bright discovers that her parents are providing a safehouse for the Underground Railroad and helps to save a runaway slave named Marcus.

Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl whom Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

Thirteen-year-old Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation in 1864, turns to Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the American Red Cross, for help in finding her brother Neddy who ran away to join the Northern war effort and is rumored to be at Andersonville Prison.

Provides information about the slave trade, discusses the conditions under which slaves lived and worked in the United States, and examines efforts to win freedom for the slaves.

An illustrated history of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.

A companion guide to the Black Holocaust Exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia, containing essays that provide information on various aspects of slavery and the slave trade, and including reproductions of authentic documents related to slavery.

Explains the development, practice, and effects of slavery in the Americas including living conditions, religious and cultural traditions, resistance and rebellion, and how the "Black Codes" molded slave life.

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.