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Slavery: From Africa to the Americas (Documenting the Past)
- Brings history to life!
- Uses primary source documents
- Colorful pages with historical photos, maps, timelines
Understand slavery in the Americas in a whole new way. This book uses a wide range of primary source documents such as accounts written by enslaved people, diary extracts, political and legal documents, abolitionist speeches, and more. Printed in modern type with old-fashioned words and phrases updated, these documents look at the capture of people in West Africa and their travel across the Atlantic, slave life, their revolution and rebellion, the abolition, and after.
Reading original documents allows us to hear directly from the voices of the past! This series of 5 books has large pages (8.5 x 11.5) packed with colorful pictures, maps, text boxes, primary source excerpts, and uses a large font that doesn’t overwhelm the eyes. What an engaging way to study the past—reading from original diaries, journals, letters, legal documents, speeches and more!