Rare glimpses of slave life

Examines how slaves were treated in colonial America, and how laws and attitudes about the institution of slavery changed prior to the American Revolution and the establishment of the United States.

Though rebellions were often put down with brutal tactics, they occurred everywhere: on large plantations and small farms, in major cities and small villages, on land and at sea, and in the North as well as the South.

This book will give readers a better understanding of the daily lives of plantation slaves, along with the oppression and challenges that they faced.

Thanks to Constitutional amendments, black Americans received greater rights; however, white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan fought to restrict black civil rights as much as possible.

All slavery was ended through passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.

Examines the series of compromises aimed at diffusing sectional conflict during the first half of the nineteenth century, the development of political strategies, the outbreak of armed hostilities, and the eventual secession of eleven Southern states in a bid to perpetuate the institution of slavery.

Every aspect of slave women's lives--from the clothes they wore, the food they ate, and even the people they married--was controlled by their owners.