Invites readers to revisit the past and see what it was like to grow up as a slave in America.

It is hard to imagine that, once, a person in America could be "owned" by another person. But from the time the colonies were settled in the 1600s until the end

For use in schools and libraries only. Offers readers a look at the life and times of slaves in America from the 1600s through the Civil War by providing answer

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou

Answers questions about the background of the underground railroad, explains what it was like to be a slave, and describes the hardships faced by fugitive slave