I LOVED this book. Its a.great way to get children to understand what happened and why it happened, just not in depth. By reading this book, I had learned things that I never learned in school. Its nice that the kids.can learn this.stuff now. Great information!!!

I received a free copy of the book and is voluntarily writing a review.

This was the first book I selected after joining NetGalley. I came across it under the “Biographies and Memoirs” section and immediately requested it due to my interest in the topic, not realizing it was a children’s book. Despite this, when I received the free copy for review, I decided to read and review it, given its short length and my interest in the subject.

I read the book on my Kindle, which posed some challenges due to formatting issues. The “Fast Facts” sections scattered throughout the pages disrupted the layout, causing the main text and these snippets to overlap or tangle, making it difficult to follow the text. However, this issue might be attributed to my older Kindle device.

Technical issues aside, both the main narrative and the “Fast Facts” provided a brief but engaging overview of the abolitionist movement and the significant role women played in it. The book didn't fail to highlight the additional challenges women faced, as they encountered discrimination from their male counterparts, even while fighting against the same injustice.

Overall, the book was well-written and informative. Despite the layout struggles, I enjoyed reading it and appreciated its insights into the topic.

Beautifully done from the dramatic cover to the material covered. The woman's eyes seemed to be looking right at me from the cover with the intense sky and light on the plantation behind her. While aimed at children, the text is informative, full of names and dates and significant events, making it a good, quick resource for older students and adults, too. I was particularly impressed that the author wove the fight against slavery into the fight for women's rights, making it particularly timely.

The illustrations are well done, depicting everything from a slave auction to depictions of such noted activists of the era as Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Divided into four chapters/sections, the book takes us from the beginnings of slavery in the Americas with the arrival of a ship from Angola in August, 1619, through the Civil War as well as mentioning the role of the 13th Amendment in 1865. Kudos to the author for including a section on the enslavement of Native Americans, too, an area usually glossed over or totally ignored.

In addition to the basic text, info boxes are included in each section. Finally, there's a Timeline, Think About It section (excellent discussion starter questions), Glossary, and list of resources to Find Out More as well as an index. Each of these is nicely and thoroughly done given the limits of the target audience. Thanks #RosenPublishingGroup for giving me this early peek at the content. I'll be recommending it to teacher friends as well as the local library. There's a great deal to ponder here.

I received a free ebook in exchange for a fair and unbiased review of this book. I have always been interested in civil rights. I have never understood how slavery was legal and for so many years.

This is a super short book. You will finish the book quickly. The print is big and I don't know if it is meant for kids. It is interesting. It is a super fast read.

The book talks about slavery and the enslavement of native Americans. I never realized how we "unofficially" enslaved the native Americans.

I never thought about that woman were a big part of the people who helped abolish slavery. It's a good book to remember how many people were enslaved. How slavery stopped. Some important people in the anti slavery movement.

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for the opportunity to read this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Rosen Publishing Group and Cavendish Square for providing this book, with my honest review below.

For my generation, a look at slavery and women of note during that time mostly came from school and American Girl books. I was happy to find this book did a great job at giving kids what I wasn’t able to easily get to during a younger age. While the kindle version (early reader copy should be noted as this may be resolved during publication) proved to make some of the additional visuals and even reading a bit difficult, I was able to read aloud to my nephew as my audience and he was engrossed.

Lucky for me there was a glossary of terms and cited material since he had a lot of questions and it led us into more reading, which is always great for young readers. I recommend this for the younger child in your life who has an interest in history or who you’d like to help get a deeper view into a notable part of our history.