What made the 19th century an interesting but tumultuous time? What technological, cultural and social changes influenced life then? Explore those issues in this story collection.
Arriving in South Carolina in the 1780s, a group of 250 Africans were slated to be sold at Ashley Ferry (outside Charleston). This advertisement...
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Gregg Cantrell, is the first full-length biography of the "Father of Texas" in more than seventy year...
The follow excerpts from John Brown's Body—a 15,000-line epic Civil-War poem by Stephen Vincent Benet, published in 1928—tell the story of...
In 1858, an enslaved woman named Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children (ranging in age from three or four to sixteen) were about to be sold at a pu...
Although she was a forceful advocate for women's rights, Susan B. Anthony was also an abolitionist who advocated against slavery. This image depicts ...
The Table of Contents page from the book, Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative.
This table of illustrations, from The Child's Anti-Slavery Book, shows the types of images which were included in the book. Its purpose was to h...
The American Stationer is a journal which—according to its own description—was "devoted to the interests of the stationery & fancy goo...
Image of the published poem The Branded Hand by John Greenleaf Whittier. Click on the image for a better view.
Bookcover image of The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Bookcover image of Civil War In Photographs, by William C. Davis.
America's federal government passed a law requiring people to help "owners" recover "their" escaped slaves. It was called The Fugitive Slave Law...
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