Slavery : real people and their stories of enslavement

Titre
Slavery : real people and their stories of enslavement

R. G. Grant

Sommaire
Slavery has plagued human history for thousands of years. During the colonization of the Americas, more than 12 million Africans were stolen from their homelands and forced to work in plantation colonies. What was it like to be enslaved? How did people endure such hardships? How did the enslaved fight for freedom?

Slavery.
 
Real people and their stories of enslavement
 
Subtitle on cover: Real people and their stories of enslavement

Date de publication comme intervalle
2009

Description matérielle
191 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.

Note générale
Includes index.

Terme de vedette-matière
Slavery -- History.
 
Slavery -- United States -- History.
 
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.

Résumé
Slavery has plagued human history for thousands of years. During the colonization of the Americas, more than 12 million Africans were stolen from their homelands and forced to work in plantation colonies. What was it like to be enslaved? How did people endure such hardships? How did the enslaved fight for freedom?

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780756651695
 
9781405336703

Informations de publication
London ; New York : DK Pub., 2009.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
Hillcrest306.3 GRABook30552000312961Non-Fiction