Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

Set in 1620 in Colonial America, a wounded Indian brings news that Yance Sackett's sister-in-law and a young woman reputed to be a witch have been kidnapped by the Pequot Indians. When Yance and his brother Kin set out to search the treacherous Warrior's Path, an old war trail that led from the vicinity of Chattanooga to Boston, they soon discover that ruthless white slavers are behind the kidnapping. With the help of the Ashanti warrior, Yance and...

The former slave that people in New Orleans called Luther Sawdust told tales of an idyllic life in a place of eternal sunshine and jungle hammocks. A settlement where white and black lived together in perfect accord.

Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled...