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Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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Formats
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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
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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 414 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy--from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing--telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. The events of that day are now tragically familiar:...
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
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
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xx, 428 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
6) Invisible generals: rediscovering family legacy, and a quest to honor America's first Black generals
Author
Publisher
Black Privilege Publishing, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Black Privilege Publishing/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A descendant of America's first two Black generals, who helped integrate the American military and created the Tuskegee Airmen, tells his family's story across five generations, from post-Civil War America to modern day Asia and Europe.
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
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxv, 160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1917, the year the United States entered the Great War, Colonel Moorhead C. Kennedy, one of the most powerful men in the state of Pennsylvania and now the Deputy Director General of Transportation for the American Expeditionary Force, asked his African American valet if he would like to accompany him on an overseas mission. The valet's reaction was "Yes, sir," and he "at once had visions of France." After crossing the Atlantic as a third class...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Heroes and Cowards demonstrates the role that social capital plays in people's decisions. The makeup of various companies--whether soldiers were of the same ethnicity, age, and occupation--influenced whether soldiers remained loyal or whether they deserted. Costa and Kahn discuss how the soldiers benefited from friendships, what social factors allowed some to survive the POW camps while others died, and how punishments meted out for breaking codes...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 318 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor.
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....
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 742 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of 116 plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, facsimiles (some color) : 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book offers the first full account of Harriet Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. It details how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. It also recounts the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, using their own distinct and individual voices. The book uses more than 175 US Civil War pension files of the...