An excellent sourcebook for information about the struggle of American people of Afro-Caribbean origin to move from slavery to equality. What was slavery? How did it start? Who was Frederick Douglass? What was the Underground Railroad? Find the answers to these and many more questions in this lively, informative book, which aims to support the Key Stage 3 History Scheme of Work on the same subject. Through an exciting mixture of colour and black-and-white photography and artwork, fact boxes and biography panels, this title provides key facts to support project work on the struggle for civil rights in the USA, making the book a "one-stop-shop" for basic information.

 

This book is part of a book series called History Topics .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Hachette Children's Group .

Ann Kramer is an experienced and dedicated children's non-fiction writer. She has written many books for publishers such as Dorling Kindersley and Wayland and specializes in womens', civil and human rights issues.