Follow the journey of nine-year-old Magulu as she is taken from her home in Africa by slave traders and taken to Cuba to be sold. It is there that she and three other children board the ship Amistad where a daring mutiny takes place.

Learn about how George Washington and his family owned slaves and about the lives of these slaves.

In this wordless picture book, a young Southern farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him.

One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared "contraband of war" and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. These "contrabands" made a home for themselves, building the first African American community in the country. In 1863, they bore witness to one of the first readings of the Emancipation Proclamation...

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.

When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.

Forty years after he was brought from Africa to the U.S., this black slave was able to buy his freedom, and spent the rest of his life helping other slaves.

Recounts the story of American slavery from African captivity to emancipation, through excerpts from slave autobiographies and slavery documents.

A slave family is distressed when they discover their son Ben has run away.