Cloud Tapper, Suzanne

"It is difficult for the modern student to truly understand how America could have supported slavery. This volume, containing primary source first-person accounts, allows readers to learn directly from the people of the time. Through their words, some hateful, others inspiring, students will develop a fuller understanding of this chapter in American history"--Provided by publisher.

Learn as abolitionists fought to end slavery and influential southerners fought to keep it, turning the institution of slavery into a political issue.

Profiles the history of slavery from the early days of the slave trade to the Civil War, the abolition movement, and the abolitionists who risked their lives for their cause.

Contains a collection of stories from those who were involved in slavery including John Newton, a wealthy white man who became a slave on a lime plantation near Sierra Leone, Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave who wrote his own autobiography, and William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and founder of the newspaper "Liberator.".