In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on historical readings of the sacred texts, and in turn, these readings began to highlight the unbridgeable historical distances that separated nineteenth-century Americans from biblical and founding pasts....

Five years after taking Bree and her brother Devin from Ireland to serve as tenth century Viking slaves, Mikkel decides whether to keep his promise to return the pair to their home and restore their freedom.

In 1857 while working for the Underground Railroad on a Mississippi River steamboat, fourteen-year-old Libby hunts for the swindler who has robbed her father, and she tries to reunite the fugitive slave Jordan with his missing father.

A graphic novel retelling of young Huckleberry Finn's adventures while traveling by raft along the Mississippi River with his friend Jim, an escaped slave, in the mid-nineteenth century.

"Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma."--Inside cover. "A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she...