The Struggle Against Slavery: A History in Documents

by David Waldstreicher

From slave ships to plantations to freedom, The Struggle Against Slavery traces the remarkable history of the heroic fight to end slavery, from its North American beginnings in the early 1600s to its violent demise in the mid-1800s with the Civil War. Captured in their own words from transcripts, diaries, memoirs, newspaper clippings, drawings, and other documents are the stories of how slaves and free blacks fought against the dehumanization of slavery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108507
• ISBN13: 9780195108507
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.1"