Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors...

Fierre is struggling in her new life as a servant on Planet Electa. Since the death of her abusive first master she has been serving Master Thomas, a man who shows her every kindness in the world.A silly mistake makes her run away from the only man who's ever cared for her, and then an unexpected night of lovemaking leaves her with a choice to make.Should she forget her kind Master and move away forever, or reach inside herself for the strength she...

A brief biography of slave Harriet Tubman, who gained her own freedom and then helped other slaves get to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Originally published in 1940 in Unknown magazine, this title has been acclaimed as one of Hubbard's most powerful and timeless fantasy stories. "A master of adventure".--Anne McCaffrey.

Young, wealthy, and good-looking, Jan Palmer leads the kind of life most of us would die for. He has it all-except for one thing: happiness. Trapped under the weight of his responsibilities to his family, his business, and his life, he wishes only to escape to another world. But you have to be careful what you wish for. Waking out of a deep sleep, Jan finally finds escape-into a living nightmare. He surprises a prowler who has broken into his mansion,...

Following a failed attempt in 1500, Gaspar Corte-Real along with his brother Miguel, set out in the spring of 1501 on a second exploratory voyage under commission from King Manuel I of Portugal. His mission was to find a Northwest Passage to Asia. Of the three carvels that sailed only two returned to Portugal, carrying 57 slaves captured on the coast of Newfoundland. Gaspar and his crew were never heard off again. Beothuk Slaves tells the story of...