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Author
Publisher
37Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First 37 Ink / Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Solomon Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
viii, 302 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories. From Slave Ship to Harvard traces the family from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Civil War to Harvard and finally today.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, 1 color map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first enslaved Africans landed in North America in 1619 to begin a life of forced, unpaid labor, harsh living conditions, and cruel treatment. The Southern economy grew dependent on slave labor, and the terrible institution was not abolished until after the American Civil War. Although slavery ended almost 150 years ago in the United States, its legacies of racism, prejudice, and the struggle for equal treatment persist today. Celebrate Black...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xi, 174 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.