"An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes silent, WAKE reconstructs the likely past of two female rebels, Adono and Alele, on the slave ship The Unity. WAKE is a graphic novel that offers invaluable insight into the struggle to survive whole as a black...

Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history. Jamaica, 1760. Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, has only ever known life on the Frontier sugarcane plantation. Awoken in the middle of the night, he hears that the rebel revolt will begin on Easter Sunday. They will fight for freedom, for themselves and other enslaved people in the nearby plantation. Before they can escape Moa and his friend...

"Describes slavery in the United States from colonial times up to the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

Amistad was a ship that carried African people to be sold into slavery. In 1839, the brave Africans on that ship fought back.

Traces the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad, their landing in the United States and arrest for piracy and murder, and trials which ended in their acquittal by the Supreme Court.

In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other. His rebellion shined a national spotlight on slavery and the state of Virginia while dividing a nation's trust. Turner himself became a lightning rod for abolitionists, like Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a terror for slave owners. Here his story is revealed through the eyes of slaves and masters, friends and foes.

Relates the story of the 1839 revolt of Mendi slaves aboard the schooner "Amistad," telling how President John Quincy Adams sided with the slaves to win their freedom and passage home.