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Gr. 4-7. Two titles in the Watts Library: History of Slavery series confront the horrifying facts of slavery, past and present. African Slave Trade discusses the devastation of the European slave trade and also the centuries of slave trading by African conquerors and Arab merchants. It ends with the struggle for freedom and the permanent loss to Africa of millions of its people. The book on child slavery is a call to arms, and Newman tells readers whom to contact to change things. The full-color photos of child hard labor are heartbreaking, especially when the captions point out that they were taken here and now. For both subjects there are other more detailed personal and historical accounts, and Newman draws on several of them, including Julius Lester's From Slave Ship to Freedom Road (1998) and Jane Springer's Listen to Us: The World of Working Children (1997). It's also good to have this general outline to introduce middle-graders to the subject. A time line, a glossary, a bibliography, lists of organizations to contact, and Internet sites are included. Hazel Rochman
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