Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom. "It takes a condition that we have all thought about historically, politically and even dramatically and makes us actually feel it and live it. That's a serious achievement."--San Francisco...

Looks at how historians work and the clues they use to learn about the Underground Railroad, a series of secret escape routes enslaved people followed to freedom.

Explores the life of Frederick Douglass and looks at how he rose to became a prominent statesman and leading abolitionist after escaping from slavery.

An introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated by a group of slaves.

"All on Fire brings to life America's foremost agitator and abolitionist and establishes Garrison's long-deserved place next to Abraham Lincoln in the pantheon of nineteenth-century political and moral heroes." "William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) is an authentic American hero who, with a prophet's power and a propagandist's skill, forced the nation to confront the most crucial moral issue in its history. For thirty-five years he edited and published...

A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.

William Lloyd Garrison didn't mind the threatening letters. In fact, he expected them. After all, he was the most famous-and outspoken-abolitionist in the United States. In 1831, when Garrison started his antislavery newspaper, most white Americans simply accepted slavery as a fact of life. Whether in the North or South, whites assumed that they would always be free and that blacks-at least of them-would always be slaves. So when Garrison called his...