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Mum Bett hears the cries for American freedom from British tyranny and launches her own American Revolution against slavery in Massachusetts.

Nat Turner was an American freedom fighter who led one of history’s most successful revolts by enslaved people in Southampton County, VA.

In this poem, Nell and her family follow the North Star and navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom.

Patty, a young enslaved girl, shares some insight about life on a South Carolina plantation.

Mary loves Sunday mornings and the spirituals that give her and Mama hope.

William Wells Brown was born into slavery and later escaped to become one of the foremost supporters of abolition.

When Africans were brought to American shores in chains, they brought pieces of Africa with them and used their traditions, music and culture to help them survive.

In this poem, Smith recounts her experience at a Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters’ show and the love she, and every other audience member, was shown.

Mary Jenkins describes growing up in the Jim Crow era and frequently being told, “You can’t”—both by a mother terrified of what might happen to her daughter if she stepped out of her expected place, and by a system that had institutionalized segregation as a way of life.