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Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Born on a farm in 1818, Lucy Stone dreamed of extraordinary things for a girl of her time, like continuing her education beyond the eighth grade and working for the abolitionist cause, and of ordinary things, such as raising a family of her own. But when she learns that the Constitution affords no rights to married women, she declares that she will never marry and dedicates her life to fighting for change. Based on true events, Leaving Coy's Hill...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad answers all of kids' most important questions about the Underground Railroad."--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set aboard a nineteenth century riverboat theater, this is the moving, page-turning story of a charmingly frank and naive seamstress who is blackmailed into saving runaways on the Underground Railroad, jeopardizing her freedom, her livelihood, and a new love. It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue--until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987
Lexile measure
1210L
Physical Desc
xxxi, 307 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xx, 888 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustration ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. He was a leader of the abolitionist movement, a celebrated writer, an esteemed speaker, and a social reformer, proving that, as he said, "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
This engaging and enlightening book allows readers to discover the history of slavery in America and the long fight for freedom before and during the Civil War. Readers will gain a better understanding of abolitionists, the fight for equality, the Underground Railroad, and Reconstruction through the stunning images, captivating sidebars and facts, easy-to-read text, accessible glossary, index, and table of contents.
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Frederick Douglass was born a slave and ended up becoming one of the most famous abolitionists of his time. This inspiring biography teaches readers about Douglass' incredible life. Through captivating images and illustrations and engaging sidebars and facts, readers will learn about the Thirteenth Amendment, the Underground Railroad, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as people that had major impacts on Douglass' freedom and life, such as...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of African-American writer Frederick Douglass focusing on his childhood, life as a slave, marriage, children, and his writing career. Also discusses how he became a United States marshal for Washington D.C. after founding the North Star newspaper.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and popularized the term "underground railroad," from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history. Born into slavery, Thomas Smallwood was free, self-educated, and working as a shoemaker a short...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the revolutionary activities of Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright--friends and neighbors in Auburn, New York--discussing their vital roles in the Underground Railroad, abolition, and the early women's rights movement.
15) The zealot and the emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to do whatever was necessary...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations (black-&-white), facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman--a prophet, a printer, and a 'Contessa'--and how its breakup led to the success of America's most important social movement. In the crucial early years of the abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves' freedom. Journalist...
19) Bread for words
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frederick Douglass knew that learning to read and write would be the first step in his quest for freedom. Told from first-person perspective and using some of Douglass's own words, this biography draws from his experiences as a young boy and his attempts to learn how to read and write."--
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
1440L
Physical Desc
xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slavery. Here, Julie Roy Jeffrey explores the involvement of ordinary women--black and white--in the most significant reform movement prior to the Civil War. She offers a complex and compelling portrait of antebellum women's activism, tracing its changing contours over time. For more than three...