Although Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward fre

A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad t

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMO

Although Africans and African Americans have been left out of most accounts of the Revolutionary years, this book pieces together their emerging path toward fre