He is a musician, composer, writer, historian, and film make up extraordinary; he is Don Nardo. He has written and published close to four hundred fifty nonfiction books on various history and science subjects. Most of his books are for the children though young adult age groups. One book in particular is Braving the New World, 1619-1784: From the Arrival of the Enslaved Africans to the American Revolution. The title pretty much gives away what the book is about. It follows the path of slavery, from the seventh century when the Arabs came across the less advanced black cultures south of the Sahara, up until the Revolutionary War and the events that led up to the Civil War. At first slavery was widespread but there was not one certain race or