Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this detailed account of slave life. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence.

A collection of interviews in which twenty-one former Virginia slaves chronicle their experiences, describing where they lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, and how they adjusted to freedom.

When the third volume of the trilogy of The Royers of Renfrew ended in 1824, four members of the family had moved north, but six remained at their farmstead in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. The nation's bloody Civil War was 30 years away, but the political climate of the 1830s was already in extreme turmoil. Waynesboro's three-mile proximity to the Mason DIxon Line, the primary demarcation between slavers adn abolitionists, puts the flourishing town...

Delves into the history of how slave labor helped build the US economy and many historic structures, as well as how people benefited in different ways from the practice of slavery--Publisher's website.

"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...

A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...

Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.

This harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother's position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. Freedom on her eighteenth birthday...