Dorothy Sterling

Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line nineteen times, a brave Negro woman led many fellow slaves to freedom.

The Story of Harriet Tubman

Freedom Train

Line drawings and text reveal the distinctive animal and plant life inhabiting the peninsula and New England islands

A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island

The Outer Lands

Мэри Джейн

Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.

Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery

Ahead of Her Time

Describes the events leading up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation that freed over four million slaves in the United States.

The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free

Story of one of the most famous conductors in the Underground Railroad.

An account of the development of the movement from slavery to black power.

A History of the American Civil Rights Movement

Tear Down the Walls!

This collection, drawn from a wealth of original research into previously untapped sources - including letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log, and official documents - allows African Americans to speak afresh across more than two centuries. Besides the expected voices of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, this book makes vivid the experiences and views of a diverse range of lesser-known but equally fascinating personalities: Ira Aldridge, one of the great Shakespearean actors of his day; William Allen, the first black college professor in the country; the astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker; Paul Cuffe, owner of a fleet of merchant ships; Martin R. Delany, the father of black nationalism; James Forten, war veteran, inventor, and one of the wealthiest men in America; the militant Henry Highland Garnet, who urged slaves to revolt; the poet Phillis Wheatley; as well as ordinary free blacks, fugitive slaves, soldiers, wives, mothers, pioneers, sailors, and numerous others.

Speak Out in Thunder Tones

Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line 19 times, a brave Negro woman led many fellow slaves to freedom.

“[The author] tells this remarkable story with honesty and compassion. Readers will find a wealth of new information not only about Kelley’s outstanding contribution to abolitionism but about the movements to bring about the end of slavery and to advance the cause of women.” —Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University In the tumultuous years before the Civil War, a young white woman from a Quaker background came to embody commitment to the cause of antislavery and equal rights for black people. Abby Kelley became the abolitionist movement’s chief money-raiser and organizer and its most radial member. She traveled hundreds of miles to awaken the country to the evils of slavery, braving hardship and prejudice as well as opening the way for other women, black and white, to take leadership roles. Now the full story of this principled woman has been told in Dorothy Sterling’s compelling biography.

Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery

Mary Jane

The Story of the Stock Exchange

Wall Street

Mary Jane, an African American high school student in the Deep South, is chosen as one of two non-white students for a newly integrated school ... At first she bitterly resents the role of ambassador, but slowly becomes less defensive and forms a sound relationship with her classmates based on genuine compatability.

Mary Jane, the only Negro girl in an integrated school, learns to live in the tense environment

Dorothy Sterling

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