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Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 518 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A crash course on the Civil War, discussing the people, politics, and key events of the conflict, highlighting the role of African Americans and women, and presenting a number of little-known historical facts.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
62 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gives children an overview of daily life as a slave in the U.S., discussing such topics as where slaves slept, what they ate, what "jumping the broom" was, why slaves were not allowed to read or write, and what happened if one tried to run away.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act divided the nation and set it on the path to civil war
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
You are a slave in the 1850s, trying to escape your harsh life, or you are a slave catsher hoping to get rich catching escaped slaves, or you are part of the Underground Railroad helping slaves escape to freedom. Everything in this book happened to real people, and you choose which side you're on and what to do next.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"'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...
10) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous chapters in America's past, when the country dreamed big, craved new lands and new freedom, and was bitterly divided over its great moral wrong: slavery. With a canvas of extraordinary characters, such as P.T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, and L.C.Q. Lamar, Ecstatic Nation balances cultural and political history: it provides an account of the sectional conflict that preceded...
12) The trap door
Author
Series
Infinity ring volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Dak, Sera, and Riq return to the United States and walk right into a deadly trap. The year is 1850 and the nation is divided over the issue of slavery. In these dark days, the Underground Railroad provides a light of hope, helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. But the SQ has taken control of the Underground Railroad from within. Now Dak and Sera are left wondering who to trust...while Riq risks everything to save the life of a young boy."--P....
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
140 p.
Language
English
Description
"This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the process of stratifying society...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In 'From Here to Equality,' William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 301 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The New York Vigilance Committee was organized by free blacks working with white abolitionists to protect blacks from kidnappers and slave catchers on the streets. Soon such committees proliferated in the North, and began a collaboration known as the underground railroad. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown. Building on fresh evidence, Eric Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative...
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