slavery in literature

A biography of the nineteenth-century author whose anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" helped intensify the disagreement between North and South.

A collection of thirteen lullabies orally transmitted by African-American slaves, revealing their hardships and sorrows as well as soothing notes of well-being and belief in a better time to come; also includes an audio CD of the songs.

Discusses the circumstances that existed at the time Stowe wrote her famous novel, the details of the book, and its impact on feelings about the existence of slavery in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.