Bound for Bondage

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Juvenile Fiction
  • Amos Fortune
    by Elizabeth Yates
    The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.

  • Dark Venture
    by Audrey White Beyer
    A twelve-year-old African boy, captured and shipped to the West Indies to be sold into slavery, is saved from a cruel master when the slave ship's doctor buys him and takes him to New England, where he must adjust to a new way of life.

  • Imani and Flying Africans
    by Janice Liddell
    On the trip from Detroit to Savannah to see his grandparents and great-grandmother for the first time, an African-American boy hears the story about an amazing event witnessed by his great-great-grandmother when she was a slave.

  • Nettie's Trip South
    by Ann Warren Turner
    A ten-year-old northern girl encounters the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction.

  • This Strange New Feeling
    by Julius Lester
    Three powerful short stories about slavery and freedom set in the antebellum South.

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    Juvenile Non-Fiction
  • African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies
    by Deborah Kent
    Presents a brief history of Afro-Americans and of slavery in seventeenth and eighteenth century America.

  • African Migrations
    by Hakim Adi

  • The Birth of Black America: The Age of Discovery and the Slave Trade
    by Andrew Frank
    A history of early exploration in the Americas and Africa and an examination of the slave trade that followed.

  • Building a New World: Africans in America, 1500-1900
    by Philip Koslow
    Discusses the ways in which slaves from Africa influenced various aspects of life in the New World, including gold mining, cultivation of sugar and rice, herding livestock, and ironworking.

  • Come This Far to Freedom
    by Angela Shelf Medearis
    Traces the history and accomplishments of African Americans as explorers, inventors, writers, soldiers, artists, scientists, and more, from the days of slavery to the present.

  • From Slave Ship to Freedom Road
    by Julius Lester
    With a profoundly moving text and 24 magnificent paintings, Julius Lester and Rod Brown depict the course of slavery, beginning with the ships sailing from Africa and continuing through the Civil War.

  • Many Thousand Gone: African-Americans from Slavery to Freedom
    by Virginia Hamilton
    Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

  • The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo
    by Tom Feelings
    Feelings's art speaks to the soul in this magnificent visual record of the Black Diaspora in the Americas.

  • The Strength of These Arms: Life in Slave Quarters
    by Raymond Bial
    Describes how slaves were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the often brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.

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