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White Slaves of the Nootka
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: John Rodgers Jewitt
Categories: Indian captivities
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Heritage House Pub.

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While anchored in Nootka Sound the Boston was attacked by what were thought of as friendly Nootka Indians. The two only survivors became slaves owned by Chief M
White Slaves of Maquinna
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: John Jewitt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-30 - Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

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John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual
Thirty Years a Slave
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Louis Hughes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-01 - Publisher: NewSouth Books

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Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was sold to a wea
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Fanny Kemble
Categories: Georgia
Type: BOOK - Published: 1864 - Publisher:

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Five Thousand Years of Slavery
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Marjorie Gann
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-21 - Publisher: Tundra Books

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When they were too impoverished to raise their families, ancient Sumerians sold their children into bondage. Slave women in Rome faced never-ending household dr