Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.
Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her "Yebit," or "black slave." She called them "master."...

Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars • Biographies...

In 1823, Will Hanby and Ann Miller find romance as they assist fugitives on the Underground Railroad.

Jedi Knights Anakin and Obi-Wan, along with Padawan Ahsoka and Captain Rex, locate the missing Togruta people of the Kiros colony, infiltrating the Zygerrian homeworld to attend an auction where the Togruta are being sold. At the auction, the Jedi are discovered, and Obi-Wan is sent with the rest of the slaves to the planet Kadavo, the Zygerrians' main slave-processing hub, while Anakin is forced to serve as the Zygerrian queen's bodyguard.

Following an invasion by Count Dooku's droid army, the Togruta people of the colony Kiros mysteriously disappeared. Jedi Knights Anakin and Obi-Wan, and Padawan Ahsoka follow the trail of the planet's missing population. The trail leads them to Zygerrian slavers, and the Jedi track down a faction of the villains in the black-market debris field known as the Shi'Kar Straits. The Jedi battle Captain Onyx and his crew to find information on the location...

Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, twelve years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did for her. She's determined to find...

Anakin and Ahsoka escape from the Zygerrian homeworld and Ventress and race across the galaxy to rescue Obi-Wan, Captain Rex, and the Togruta who have been imprisoned on the Zygerrians' main slave-processing hub, the planet Kadavo.

An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.

Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.