Slavery
Subtitle: real people and their stories of enslavement
By: written by Reg Grant
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780756651695; 9781405336703
Subjects: Juvenile literature; African Americans; Slavery; History
Other titles: Slavery; Real people and their stories of enslavement
Description: Slavery has plagued human history for thousands of years. During the colonization of the Americas, more than 12 million Africans were stolen from their homelands and forced to work in plantation colonies. What was it like to be enslaved? How did people endure such hardships? How did the enslaved fight for freedom?
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Background to slavery; title: The Atlantic slave trade; title: How the slave trade worked; title: Life in slavery; title: The fight for freedom; title: Abolishing slavery in the Americas; title: Aftermath of slavery.