Based upon the true story of Robert Smalls, a slave who kidnapped a Confederate ship and its weaponry and delivered it to the Union along with several runaway slaves.
Presents an overview of the history of abolitionism in the United States, including information on the Underground Railroad with an emphasis on pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments used up until the Civil War.
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.
Contains a brief, narrative biography of Harriet Tubman, in simple text with illustrations, from her birth into slavery, through her daring escape to freedom in the north, to her efforts during the Civil War to free other slaves through the establishment of the Underground Railroad.
Provides details of daily life on a wealthy cotton plantation in the southern U.S. during the 1850s and 1860s, discussing the big house, slave cabins, clothing, children, school, work, and food.
A biography, written in verse, that explores the life of a South Carolina slave named Dave, who became skilled at turning pots and jars on a pottery wheel, reading, and writing, and went on to use these skills to speak out against slavery.
This volume contains a chronology of slavery in North America and thematic sections on "Religion," "Health, Medicine, and Nutrition," "Regulating Slavery," "Resistance and Rebellion," "Reactions to Slavery," "The Geography of Slavery," and "War.".
Several years after escaping slavery and gaining their unusual powers, Graham and Brody become witnesses to the growing rebellion in the American colonies. Now, they must decide whether to help this group of revolutionaries achieve their goal or to put them back in their place.
