A concise history of slavery in America, including the daily life of American slaves, the laws that sought to legitimize white supremacy, the anti-slavery movement, and the abolition of slavery
After the Civil War, African Americans placed "information wanted” advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from family.
Offering the story of African American self-education, this title examines African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom.
