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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Captives and Voyagers breaks away from the conventional image of transatlantic migration and illustrates how black men and women, enslaved and free, came to populate the edges of an Anglo-Atlantic world. Whether as settlers in Sierra Leone or as slaves in Jamaica, these migrants brought a deep and affecting experience of being in motion to their new homelands. As they became firmly ensconced in the particulars of their new local circumstances, they...
822) Barracoon
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Why was the United States the only nation in the world to fight a war to end slavery? Fleming looks at the reasons of why the Civil War was fought, and shows that the polarization that divided the North and South and led to the Civil War began decades earlier than most historians are willing to admit-- back almost to the founding of the nation itself.
825) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Lexile measure
1370L
Physical Desc
x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Civil War Revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century--not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral systems, and competing national visions that preceded and followed. This cultural civil war was the clash among. North, South, and West, as their leaders sought to shape Manifest Destiny and slavery politics. No site embodied this struggle more completely than...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In this book, the author a renowned literary scholar explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere, have consistently both loved and hated the South. She explains that for these authors the South represents not so much a place or even a...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War--a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Young readers edition, first Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
xviii, 252 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals a fascinating and heartbreaking behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons' when they were the First Family--and an in-depth look at their slave, Ona Judge, who dared to escape from one of the nation's Founding Fathers. Born into a life of slavery, Ona Judge eventually grew up to be George and Martha Washington's "favored" dower slave. When she was told that she was going to be given as...
836) Roots
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (573 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation may have been limited--freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines--but it is nonetheless generally seen as the key moment, with Lincoln's leadership setting into motion a train of inevitable events that culminated in the passage of an outright ban: the Thirteenth Amendment....
838) The weeping time
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes the auction of the slaves of Pierce Mease Butler on March 2 and 3, 1859, the selling of 436 slaves to pay Butler's debts that was called The Weeping Time, the largest sale of human beings in U.S. history.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Henry 'Box' Brown's amazing escape from slavery, a gripping tale about the lengths to which people will go in seeking freedom brings to light one of the heroes of the Underground Railroad." -- Provided by publisher.