Africans in America

  • Africans in America
    By Richard Worth, Robert Asher

    With the help of the conductors, the slaves knew to follow the North Star, which pointed to freedom in the North. Then they hid out by day in stations along one of the routes out of the South. Some of these routes ran from Kentucky, ...

  • Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
    By Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team

    Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War

  • Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
    By Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team

    The rich cast of characters goes far beyond the usual view of the founding fathers - we see them as black Americans saw them, as slaveholders and lawmakers both. The...

  • Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
    By Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team

    Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War

  • Africans in America
    By Myron B. Kuropas, Ayanna Hart, Earl Spangler

    Traces the history of African Americans from the arrival of the first slaves to the civil rights movement of the 1960's and beyond and discusses their influence on America's history and culture.

  • Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
    By Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith

    A riveting narrative history of America, from the landing in Jamestown to the brink of the Civil War, this book tells our shared history as seen through the lens of...