History for busy people. History in an Hour presents a concise and uncompromising look at the American slave trade, and the huge role African-American slaves played in building ‘The Land of the Free.’
From the first slaves arriving in Jamestown in 1619, the cotton fields in the Southern States and shipbuilding in New England, to the slaves who laid down their lives in war so that Americans could be free, American Slavery in an Hour covers the breadth of the subject without sacrificing important historical and cultural details.
An important and dark time in Black – and American – history, American Slavery in an Hour will explain the key facts and give you a clear overview of this much discussed period of history, as well as its legacy in modern America.
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Contents:
- The New World
- The Middle Passage – the Atlantic Slave Trade
- The Human Cargo
- Welcome to the New World
- Non-Existent Rights
- The Abolitionists
- The Concept of Freedom
- The Educated Slave
- The Beginning of the End
- North vs. South
- “Manifest Destiny”
- Uncle Tom
- John Brown
- Abraham Lincoln
- Secession
- The American Civil War
- The End of Slavery in the US