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2) Show way
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
3) Kindred
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
4) Chains
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
316 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots.
5) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
92 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
When Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift: the young slave she grew up with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen's daughter and Clarissa's sister, a product of his longtime relationship with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband suspects that their newborn son is illegitimate, Clarissa and Sarah are sent back to her parents, Cornelius and Theodora, in shame, setting in motion a series...
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 1
Language
English
Description
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
8) Homegoing
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...
10) The purchase
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shunned by his Quaker community for marrying a servant girl, Daniel Dickinson pursues a new life on the Virginia frontier, where his family's values are tested by the challenges of homestead life and the moral dilemma of slave ownership.
11) Forge
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
297 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Curzon, having matured from boy to man over the course of the winter with the army at Valley Forge, worries that someone will learn he is a runaway slave passing for free, and tries to figure out the meaning of his friendship with Isabel.
12) Rhythm of war
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 4
Language
English
Description
"After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
13) Alec's primer
Author
Publisher
Distributed by University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.
16) Freedom over me
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Black History Month 2023
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Description
"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--
17) Oathbringer
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 3
Language
English
Description
Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trouble has a way of seeking out Nicolas Calva, and it's not likely to leave him alone any time soon. With Caesar's magic bulla, the Malice of Mars, and the possibility of a Jupiter Stone in play, all the powers of Rome are circling Nic. He'll have to maneuver his way through scheming government officials and reawakened magical beasts to save the Empire. Can he manage to keep his friends and family safe, claim his own freedom once and for all, and...
19) Ashes
Author
Series
Seeds of America trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon have narrowly escaped Valley Forge, but their relief is short-lived. Before long they are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state where bounty hunters are thick as flies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
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