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Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena's banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers' Project. There, she meets...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mothers position as the estates medicine woman and cherished by the Masters sister, she is set apart from the others on...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lu Wonder, a bright, curious girl who hopes to be a scientist, sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.
67) Palmares
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
492 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil"--
Intricate and compelling,/Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle. Her story brings to life...
68) Jip: his story
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, hiding their past and identities to protect themselves from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Charlotte longs to break away, but outside the walls...
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (369 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Derby stallion : Zac Efron leads this heartwarming drama about a teen who finds direction with the help of a horse. Patrick McCardle (Efron) is a typical 15-year-old who doesn't know where his life is going, and his successful dad isn't content to let him just be himself. But when Patrick meets a horse trainer, he might have finally discovered something that makes him happy. With the trainer's help, Patrick begins to prepare for the Derby Cup, where...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Slavery did not end without an organized and impassioned struggle. Many Americans, both black and white, thought it was inhumane and morally wrong to enslave another human being, no matter the color of his or her skin, and fought for the freedom of enslaved Africans in the United States. Learn about these abolitionists and freedom fighters from colonial days through emancipation, and discover how their work brought the country as far as it has come."...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
470 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--
Gran Toya: Born in West Africa, Abdaraya Toya was one of the legendary minoswomen called {28}Dahomeyan...
75) Better off dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the West Texas border a behemoth is bellowing smoke, fire, and death. This monster is the infamous Abaddon Cannon Foundry, whose weapons of war have spread death and destruction around the world -- and made a few men in Big Buck, Texas, incredibly rich. Now, a Mexican-born teenager has disappeared into this fortress factory, where men work and sweat as slaves. This boy's sister wants to learn her brother's fate, and she just happens to know a...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
54 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be know as "Box," he "entered the world a slave." He was put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next -- as property. When he was an adult, his wife and children were sold away from him out of spite. Henry Brown watched as his family left, bound in chains, headed to the deeper South. What more could be taken from him? But then hope -- and help -- came in the from of the Underground...
77) Imprison the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
418 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aspasia, eighteen, an Elementae who controls air, gets caught in a battle between Cyrus, who forces her to capture slaves for market, and a queen whose husband experiments on Elementae.
Aspasia, an Elementae who controls air, was stolen from her family as a child. She captains her own trading vessel-- and risks it all every time she uses magic to free as many women, children, and Elementae from slavery as she can. Cyrus knows Aspasia is searching...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, music ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.