Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . .
Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek.
Rosewood Rosewood Case, one of the worst race riots in American history, in which hundreds of angry whites killed an undetermined number of blacks and burnt down their Florida community. Slavery in the United States Slavery has appeared in many forms throughout its long history. Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as concubines, warriors, servants, craftsmen, tutors, and victims of ritual sacrifice. American Civil War Civil War, American, devastating military conflict between the United States of America and 11 former states that seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. The war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, took more than 600,000 lives but brought freedom to 4 million African American slaves.