TY - BOOK AU - Grant,R.G. TI - Slavery: real people and their stories of enslavement SN - 9780756673277 AV - E441 .G735 2011 U1 - 306.3/62 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - DK Pub. KW - Slavery KW - History KW - United States KW - African Americans KW - To 1863 KW - fast KW - Juvenile works N1 - Includes index; Background to slavery -- The Atlantic slave trade -- How the slave trade worked -- Life in slavery -- The fight for freedom -- Abolishing slavery in the Americas -- Aftermath of slavery N2 - Slavery has plagued human history for thousands of years. During the colonization of the Americas, more than 12 million Africans were stolen from their homelands and forced to work in plantation colonies. What was it like to be enslaved? How did people endure such hardships? How did the enslaved fight for freedom? ER -