Harriet Tubman was born a slave. She hated being a slave, so she escaped slavery on the Underground Railroad. During her life, Harriet helped lead over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Rail…
Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass grew up to have a way with words. Contemporaries found it hard to believe that an escaped slave with no formal education could be so e…
A young black girl recounts her family's annual participation in the ceremonies of the Seminole tribe that during the Civil War, some seventy years earlier, had given sanctuary to her grandfather, …