Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources.

A biography of the Black woman who was born a slave and dedicated her life to the abolition of slavery and to improving the living conditions of Blacks following the Civil War.

This book introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.

Provides information about the slave trade, discusses the conditions under which slaves lived and worked in the United States, and examines efforts to win freedom for the slaves.

This book describes daily life for slaves in early America.

This book describes slave life on the plantation, from the decline of indentured servants and the increase of slaves in the last half of the seventeenth century to the freeing of slaves in 1863.

From slave ships to plantations to freedom, The Struggle Against Slavery traces the remarkable history of the heroic fight to end slavery, from its North American beginnings in the early 1600s to its violent demise in the mid-1800s with the Civil War. Captured in their own words from transcripts, diaries, memoirs, newspaper clippings, drawings, and other documents are the stories of how slaves and free blacks fought against the dehumanization of slavery...

"At a time when most black women were slaves or servants and even white women were expected to sit quietly in the corner, Sojourner Truth transformed herself from a runaway slave to a well-known campaigner for abolition and women's rights. Born a slave in New York State around 1797 and given the name Isabella by her owner, she had already fled to freedom when New York's 1827 anti-slavery law officially emancipated her. Deeply religious, she adopted...