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This exciting series provides students with gracefully written narratives about important aspects of the black experience in the United States. Blending original documents written by participants and observers with an insightful analysis of different periods in American history, each volume provides young readers with an understanding of the broad issues that this country faced as well as the dail... More

This exciting series provides students with gracefully written narratives about important aspects of the black experience in the United States. Blending original documents written by participants and observers with an insightful analysis of different periods in American history, each volume provides young readers with an understanding of the broad issues that this country faced as well as the daily struggles of ordinary African-American men and women.Quotations and information from primary sources, historical drawings, photographs, and maps lend immediacy to every narrative and an up-to-date bibliography and detailed index enhance the reference value of each volume.

The Struggle for Freedom documents the violent resistance to slavery, including Gabriel's revolt in 1800, the Haitian revolt of 1804, Denmark Vesey's revolt in 1822, and mutiny on the Amistad in 1837.

In addition, the volume describes the lives and working conditions of black people throughout the United States during the antebellum period and goes on to contrast the American form of slavery with its European and African counterparts.

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