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Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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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
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called 'Ashley's Sack,' embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter,...
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
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 944 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Enter a world of warfare and treachery, of duty and honor, of love and loyalty, interwoven with the inner workings of a Roman centurion's household. And then trace it as the road curves toward little Capernaum. Follow the story of Appius, a proud centurion, and Tullus, his scribe and slave. From a battle with the Parthians, through a tragic personal crisis, to the gladiator arena at Caesarea Maritima, their tale finally leads to the backwater village...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 160 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
221 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In her dreams, Phoebe twirls through rows of sea island cotton as a white dress blows around her knees like a breeze. As she dances, she loses all memory of being born a slave on an Alabama plantation. She lifts up her feet and flies high above the fields, as light as air. Before her a single white star shines. Thirteen-year-old Phoebe has always dreamed of leaving her life as a slave behind. She has heard whispers about a secret path to freedom,...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tacky's revolt, in modern-day Jamaica, was the largest slave uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. A strikingly modern guerilla conflict, the revolt inspired both fear of and sympathy toward black lives. Vincent Brown offers a gripping account of the fighting and its reverberations across an interconnected world"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the business world of those markets.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, and during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life. This is his detailed description of slave life and plantation society.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxii, 615 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here...
13) Spartacus
Author
Series
Revealing antiquity volume 19
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 177 pages : maps ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Separate[s] the man from the myth. . . . Both the newcomer and the experienced Roman historian will find a wealth of entertainment and information." (Publishers Weekly)
Spartacus (109?–71 bce) has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. In this riveting, compact account, Aldo Schiavone rescues Spartacus from the murky regions of legend and brings him squarely into the arena...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
330 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price- remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family's fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage. Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a wealthy Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward, who colluded with Wood's employer, abducted Wood and sold her back into bondage....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiv, 768 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation's capital. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all slaveholders. And as Marie Jenkins Schwartz uncovers in...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
liv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Includes live recordings of interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project and dramatic readings from written interviews collected at that time.
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people....