African American voices: a documentary reader, 1619-1877

"Death's gwineter lay his cold icy hands on me" : enslavement

"God's a-gwineter trouble de water" " the middle passage and arrival

"A change is gonna come" : slavery in the era of the American Revolution

"We raise de wheat, dey gib us de corn" : conditions of life

"Nobody knows the trouble I've seen" : visual history of slavery

"O mother don't you weep" : women, children and families

"Go home to my Lord and be free" : religion

"Oppressed so hard they could not stand" : punishment

"Let my people go" : resistance and flight

"The walls came tumblin' down" : emancipation.