Slavery: Books

America antislavery writings spanning nearly two centuries beginning in colonial times.

Chronicles 14 legal cases in American history involving African-Americans and equal rights and includes such cases as the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, the hanging of abolitionist John Brown in 1859, the Dred Scott case in 1857,

An anthology of poems about slavery, written between 1660 and 1810, featuring over four hundred poems and excerpts from longer works by more than 250 poets from America, Britain, and around the Atlantic, including women, African and African-American, and canonical writers.

Traces the history of slavery in the United States from colonial times to the Civil War, examining many aspects related to slavery, including African slave catchers, trade routes, slave auctions, life and labor on a plantation, escape attempts and insurrections, the Civil War, and the emancipation.

African American pioneers and freedom fighters in the Midwest, including Sara Jane Woodson, Peter Clark, and Dred Scott.

Examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s.