Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book written for young adults - "From Spartacus to Frederick Douglass, Watkins discusses how people have been owned as property through history and across the world. His approach is neither by chronology nor geography: rather, he takes a number of comprehensive subjects - capture, trading, law, escape, revolt, etc. - and talks about each one across cultures and civilizations. One chapter discusses the work slaves did and the horrifying conditions of servitude in the Louisiana cotton fields, the mines near ancient Athens, the armies and harems of Islam, and the galley ships of the Middle Ages. Next comes the shock of the word today as Watkins describes the ways brutal slavery still exists. The accounts are detailed (and, occasionally, as in the case of ninteenth-century Haiti, too gruesome), with moving excerpts from personal testimony."(ALA) Illustrated with black-and-white drawings by Watkins, including scenarios of slave markets and individual portraits. Glossary, timeline, bibliography and index. Oblong format. (vii) 136 pp. ISBN: 0-395922895.