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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.Henry Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays.

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Ellen Levine (Author), Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)

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Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad [Ellen Levine, Kadir Nelson] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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Belle. A movie about the importance slavery. 

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Belle. A movie about the importance slavery. 

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The illegitimate, mixed-race daughter (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) of a British admiral plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.

The movie is for around 8 to 11-year-olds.

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Earnest drama about fervent English abolitionist.

Intense true story about slavery has graphic violence.

Moving tribute to two civil rights widows' legacies.

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Antebellum. A movie about the horrors of slavery. 

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Successful author Veronica Henley is finishing a book tour before she returns home to her husband and daughter. But a shocking turn of events is about to upend Veronica's existence, plunging her into a horrifying reality that forces her to confront her past, present, and future -- before it's too late. The movie has disturbing violent content and language.

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A successful author is plunged into a horrifying reality that forces her to confront her past, present, and future in this tense thriller from visionary filmmakers Bush + Renz, and the producer of Get Out and Us.

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This PFD is about what it is like to be a child slave back then.

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This video goes more in depth about slavery and how it affected the war.

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The American Civil War - OverSimplified (Part 1)

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Explaining what slaves do and what it means.

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Chains such as these were used to stop slaves from escaping

Slavery is an economic system. In it, some people must work for no pay. It is also a system of ownership. Some people from countries around the world used to own slaves. Some of these include the ancient Greeks, Romans, Aztecs and Incas.

There is evidence that even before there was writing, there was slavery. There have been different types of slavery, and they have been in almost all cultures and continents. Some societies had laws about slavery, or they had an economy that was built on it. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome had many slaves.

In modern times, the best-known example of slavery in history involves the use of slaves from southern and western Africa to work on export-oriented plantations in the Caribbean, America and Brazil. Slavery was a major cause of the American Civil War, which ended slavery there in 1865. The Reconstruction of the United States made the Freedmen citizens in 1866 and voters in 1867.

During the 20th century almost all countries made laws forbidding slavery. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that slavery is wrong. Slavery is now banned by international law Nevertheless, there are still different forms of slavery in some countries.

The English word "slave" comes from the medieval word for the Slavic peoples of Central Europe and Eastern Europe, because these were the last ethnic group to be captured and enslaved in Central Europe. Slave-holders used to buy slaves at slave auctions. In many cases slaves are not allowed rights.

Famous people who were slaves

Aesop circa 6th century BC

Spartacus (died 71 BC)

Epictetus (about AD 55 - AD 125)

Pope Callixtus I (died AD 222)

Saint Patrick (circa AD 387-461)

Olaudah Equiano (circa 1745-1790)

George John Scipio Africanus (1763-1834)

Denmark Vesey (circa 1767-1822)

Sojourner Truth (circa 1797-1883)

Dred Scott (circa 1799-1845)

Nat Turner (1800-1831)

Frederick Douglass (circa 1812-1895)

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Debt bondage

Unfree labour

Slave trade

American Civil War

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Introduction of Slavery Explained for Kids