Suitable for children 5 and older, the title was taken from a song sung by plantation slaves in the South for a particular purpose.

African servants were common as status symbols, but their treatment was not comparable to that of plantation slaves in the colonies.

Anderson proved to be a former plantation slave who'd signed as cook aboard the first ship out of Savannah after his manumission.

He united the maroon bands and also established a network of secret organizations among plantation slaves, leading a rebellion from 1751 through 1757.

The outbuildings are known to have been erected between 1852 and 1854 by the plantation slaves.

Historical references indicate that by the decades around 1800 plantation slaves were cultivating a music and dance genre called bomba.

Surely it was brought there by the plantation slaves.

Over the course of time they developed the means to communicate with other surrounding secret camps via the plantation slaves and friendly White Cubans.

The foreign earnings of British colonial America resulted overwhelmingly from the labor of plantation slaves.

Grandison's performance as the stereotypical plantation slave is successful until he escapes with his family.