The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person narratives of slavery and freedom published after 1865.

Jinni. Empress. Warrior. Slave.
Nalia is a jinni of tremendous ancient power, the only survivor of a coup that killed nearly everyone she loved. Stuffed into a bottle and sold by a slave trader, she's now in hiding on the dark caravan, the lucrative jinni slave trade between Arjinna and Earth, where jinn are forced to grant wishes and obey their human masters' every command. She'd give almost anything to be free of the golden shackles that bind her to Malek, her cruel master, and his lavish Hollywood lifestyle.

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the African slave trade, one of the great tragedies of world history, while traveling to the royal palaces at Abomey, built with the wealth obtained from trafficking in human beings, and the slave fortresses in Accra, the site of holding cells for enslaved Africans awaiting transportation to the Americas. In South Africa, investigate the country’s harsh colonial past at Robben Island

 

Grades:  7 to Adults

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American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction

Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration.

Long the stuff of legends, Spartacus is known to most modern readers through the classic Kubrick film version of Howard Fast's novel. Now bestselling historical novelist Ben Kane returns to the source material and presents a lively and compelling new vision of the man who was Spartacus - Roman army auxillary, slave, gladiator and ultimately the leader of an army of slaves who nearly brought Rome to its knees.