Hard Trials on My Way: Slavery & the Struggle Against it 1800-60

The Living History Library

by John Anthony Scott

An account of life in the slave South and the anti-slavery struggle which that life created. Includes Nat Turner, Henry Bibb, Elijah Lovejoy, John Brown and many anonymous slaves.

293 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Tony Scott had an Oxford University degree in Modern Greats. Participated in WWII, was at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. Became American citizen in 1940's. Progressive educator; active in the US civil rights movement.