Underground Railroad You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?

Rosewood
Rosewood Case, one of the worst race riots in American history, in which hundreds of angry whites killed an undetermined number of blacks and burnt down their Florida community.

Slavery in the United States
Slavery has appeared in many forms throughout its long history. Slaves have served in capacities as diverse as concubines, warriors, servants, craftsmen, tutors, and victims of ritual sacrifice. In the New World (the Americas), however, slavery emerged as a system of forced labor designed to facilitate the production of staple crops

Black Cowboys
Black Cowboys, legendary African American figures who drove great cattle herds across the early West.

American Civil War
Civil War, American, devastating military conflict between the United States of America and 11 former states that seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. The war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, took more than 600,000 lives but brought freedom to 4 million African American slaves. The immediate and primary cause of the Civil War was the South's support for and the North's increasing opposition to slavery; however, several other economic and political factors conspired to make the issue of slavery potent

Craft, Ellen and William name of two African American abolitionists who were husband and wife. Ellen Craft (1826-1891) was a light-skinned black who helped her and her husband escape from slavery by passing as white; William Craft (1824-1900) is known for the autobiographical slave narrative that described the couple's dramatic escape.