slave revolts

Explores the history of slavery in North America.

"Jamaica, 1760. Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, has only ever known life on the Frontier sugarcane plantation. Awoken in the middle of the night, he hears that the rebel revolt will begin on Easter Sunday. They will fight for freedom, for themselves and other enslaved people in the nearby plantation. Before they can escape Moa and his friend Keverton must face their first task: kill their overseer, Misser Donaldson"--OCLC.

Brief biography profiling the life and achievements of Nat Turner, a slave and prophet who led a revolt against slave owners in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.

Presents a graphic adaptation of the story of the revolt onboard the slave ship Amistad in 1839, detailing the path of the ship from Africa to the United States, the trial of the Africans that was brought to the Supreme Court, and the aftermath.

Presents a brief history of the slave ship Amistad that held hundreds of kidnapped Africans, and how they fought for their freedom in the Supreme Court of the United States.

"The slave revolt on the ship Amistad in 1839 was a crucial event in the early abolitionist movement in the United States. When the vessel arrived in America, a fierce debate began about whether the Africans were free or enslaved and whether they should be allowed to return to Africa. The argument became a legal battle that eventually ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court, with former president John Quincy Adams representing the Africans. This remarkable story and its repercussions are presented, ... replete with images to complement the narrative and a timeline that summarizes key events"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the story of Sengbe Pieh, a West African man of the Mende tribe who, in 1839 was imprisoned on the Portuguese slave ship "Tecora" on its way to Cuba; and tells of the rebellion aboard ship and the trial of Sengbe and fellow captives.

Spartacus, a slave trained as a gladiator, leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic.Political figures in Rome plot to aid or hinder him for their own purposes.

An annotated edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1856 novel, which tells the story of Nina Gordon, a slave plantation mistress, and Dred, a black revolutionary who traverses North Carolina and Virginia recruiting fugitive slaves to join his community in the Dismal Swamp.

Depicts the rebellion of the Africans aboard the "Amistad" who had been illegally kidnapped and transported as slaves to America. Describes the resulting trial which energized the Abolitionist anti-slavery movement. Includes illustrations, a timeline, a glossary, and an index.