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Presents profiles of courageous African-American men and women, ranging over the course of four centuries, who typify the virtues of integrity, discipline, and self-respect.

Fact-based novel that chronicles the experiences of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his slave mistress, describing her life as a slave during the Civil War, and as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era....

A fictionalized account of the life of Minna, kidnapped as a girl in Africa, as she endures the harsh life of a slave on a Southern plantation in the 1800s and tries to help her family survive.