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Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 1
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
1987, c1983
Physical Desc
178 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
2) Freewater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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.
6) 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.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century."--
9) 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.
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Black History Month
JTL BHM Children
Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
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Telling a People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature
Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
12) Lincoln's legacy
Author
Series
Blast to the past volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013, c2005
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Third graders travel through time to keep history on track! Abigail loves Mondays, and so does the rest of class 305. That's the day Mr. Caruthers asks them cool questions about history. Today Mr. C asks, "What if Abraham Lincoln never freed the slaves?" Abigail and her friends are ready to put their thinking caps on. But this time Mr. C wants them to do more than put their heads together-he wants them to travel back in time! Turns out the "What If?"...
13) 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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm. + compact disc (22:55 minutes playing time)
Language
English
Description
A young slave girl sets off north with her brother and mother, following the star in the Drinking Gourd or Big Dipper that points to freedom. Includes compact disc recording by Morgan Freeman in pocket inside cover.
15) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill., maps, music ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1859 and Clotee, a twelve-year-old slave, has the most wonderful, terrible secret. She knows that if she shares it with the wrong person, she will face unimaginable consequences. What is her secret? While doing her job of fanning her master's son during his daily lessons, Clotee has taught herself to read and write. However, she soon learns that the tutor, Ely Harms, has a secret of his own. In a time when literacy is one of the most valuable...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.' So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is...
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